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Starting engines for departure into a Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX) with three hoisting operations... with a Navy ship, the Cape Espichel cliffs and in high sea!
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An early morning flight with this new (in Portugal) Rans S-10 Sakota, near the city of Santarém, with the Tagus River serving as background!
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Hunting down the beaches of West Portugal with the first ever built Shark, a 4th generation ultralight. Picture taken at the end of Santa Cruz Air Race.
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Reaching the outer marker for runway 03 approach, after sunset, we're going to start a left turn to the city of Lisbon. In the middle you can see the Tagus River, that reaches the Atlantic Ocean behind us... the perfect way to end a trip to Moscow, after attending the 100th Anniversary Airshow of the Russian Air Force!
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My first ever glimpse of Azores, passing Praia da Vitória Bay on final approach to Lajes after a 4h flight from Lisbon. Photo taken from the observation window... the best seat in the house after the cockpit!
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Official presentation of the first cargo aircraft for EuroAtlantic! This is the first B767-300 to be converted to cargo... Notice the station for the Load Master!
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Straight from a Hollywood movie. A ex-military hijacked the aircraft, after pretending to be a photographer shooting parachute jumps from inside the airplane. The aircraft took off from LPEV (Évora) to LPCS (Tires) with 2 parachuters, and right after, the hijacker diverted the aircraft using a pistol. When the aircraft was landing at Tires, the pilot managed to take the weapon from the terrorist, but he went for the controls and tried to crash the airplane. The parachuters jumped at very low altitude and the aircraft landed with the engine shut down, with a strugle between the pilot and the hijacker, skidded into a ditch breaking the left wing and left again to the grass breaking the landing gear. The pilot jumped from the aircraft as soon as it hit the ground and the hijacker committed suicide (you can see him underneath the left wing). It also seems that the hijacker's car exploded in Évora. Handheld, raining a lot, and almost dark.
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During Iberian Spotters Meeting, in association between APEA & AIRE... Kinda funny: Portuguese and Spanish Spotters, photographing an aircraft belonging to a Spanish Group, but with Portuguese registration! Dedicated to our Spanish friends, thank you for coming to Lisbon!
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Everything is possible in an air-to-air photoshoot as long as you plan in advance!... this year's Portuguese Aerobatic Team for the international championships.
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Awesome Spotters Day at Montijo Air Base... What a fabulous sight at the end of the event, during our snack with all the squadrons involved!
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Awesome Spotters Day at Montijo Air Base... The boys from the Navy never turn us down!
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Awesome Spotters Day at Montijo Air Base... This Merlin was the star of the day!... one of several great low passes!
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A Sukhoi Su-27SM3 sits on the static display together with an Su-30MK2, while the new aerobatic team Golden Eagles perform their routine with the Mil Mi-28N helicopters at the 100th Anniversary Airshow of the Russian Air Force... the SM3 is the latest development of the Su-27!
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Coming in low & fast over the beach and heading towards me, this Merlin is starting a SAR display in the Tagus River during the official tribute cerimony to the PoAF Rescue Swimmers that everyday risk their life "So that others may live"!
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Flying low over the Ria de Aveiro in a ferry flight from Montijo AB to Ovar AB during Real Thaw 11 Exercise. A few hours after landing we took off in another C-130 for an extraction mission to Bragança where we picked up a team from the Navy's Detachment of Special Operations (DAE) that were in the field since 1 week ago and returned to Ovar. After delivering the PoAF's Unit of Protection of the Force that assisted the mission we departed again heading back to Montijo with the DAE... what a day!!
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Now part of the Portuguese Air Force history, the Aviocar and the 401st Squadron "Cientistas" were retired on the 6th of December 2011 after 37 years of service and more than 170.000 flying hours in missions of photo reconnaissance, search and rescue, inter-island transport, electronic warfare, education and training of Navigators, pluri engine training, tactical transport and support for Airborne Troops (including troops launch), medical evacuation, VIP transport and land resource survey.
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Flying a 3 ship formation of Chipmunks from the Air Force Academy over the Sintra Mountain with most of it's landmarks in the background. Left of the frame it's the Pena National Palace, top left it's the Seteais Palace, below the second DHC-1 it's the Castle of the Moors and on top of the 1335's right wing is the Quinta da Regaleira. The best photo I could get for an air-to-air photoshoot about the 60th anniversary of the DCH-1 in the PoAF, a plane that my father also flew while he was serving.
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HELP ME PLEASE... On the 21st December (next Sunday), i'll be at the Móron Air Base Open Doors. Will there be any flying or static displays? Thank you in advance... Photo taken during APEA's (apeapt.com) visit at 56ş Portuguese Air Force Anniversary!
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N777AS departing to Faro after leaving an african diplomat for the Euro-Africa Summit!
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When i heard on the news that there was a huge fire in Sintra with two Berievs and two Canadairs helping the firefighters, i couldn't resist the crazyness of going into the middle of burning fields and trees just to photograph this birds dumping water... Luckilly no one was hurt and only one house was lost (for those who know Sintra and heard about this fire, i can tell you that it's amazing). Way to go Firefighters!
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