Schiphol Airport, April 2025
Just a couple of photos I took on yesterday's turnaround to AMS of this iconic airport structure:
Schiphol Airport, April 2025
Just a couple of photos I took on yesterday's turnaround to AMS of this iconic airport structure:
Dulles Airport, March 2025
First time I visited Washington, D.C. was in 2019, when I was still flying in the widebody fleet. That time I took the opportunity to visit the National Air and Space Museum.
Since I returned to the narrow-body fleet I've been to Washington many other times and revisited the city museum once again in 2023. But what I really wanted to do was to go the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at the Dulles Airport which is a long way from our layover site.
Last month I found the perfect opportunity and company among my colleagues to finally see the other location of the museum.
The best and most economical way to go to the museum from Washington is get the Metro Silver Line (direction Ashburn) to the Innovation Center and from there take the bus 983.
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General View
The museum is of free entrance and it does not need a time slot reservation contrary to what happens in the city location (also free).
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Boeing 367-80
The flap track fairings offer better aerodynamics not only by covering the flaps extension mechanism but also by mitigating the wing longitudinal flow that gives origin to the wingtip vortices, hence the large canoe-shaped structures we see today in modern commercial aircraft.
This was the same aircraft on which pilot "Tex" Johnston did a barrel roll, infuriating Boeing's president William Allen to whom he said he "was selling airplanes".
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Lockheed SR-71
Well, then we have the fastest aircraft in the world with its titanium structure.
And a couple of close-ups with details of the Shuttle, including the tiles which were essential during the reentry phase and caused the failure of Columbia in 2003.
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Pegasus XL
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Concorde
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Boeing B-29
The Enola Gay bomber is another historic aircraft in this museum, that casts a shadow over humanity of one of the most terrible fears we feel to this date since the deployment of the first two atomic bombs in Japan.
Sal Island, March 2025
Just a few photos of my recent holidays in Sal Island: Bikini Beach Club at sunset on the left and Santa Maria town on the right.
Flying back to Lisbon I took these showing Tenerife Island from the air.
Above, you can see we were also flying over Gran Canaria. A toast to life! Red wine is my choice.
In-flight, February 2025
Just a couple of photos on our way to Toronto:
The aircraft was the Airbus A321LR with tail number CS-TXB.
Funchal, February 2025
Although Funchal is truly an enjoyable place, our layovers there are not that in good when you look at the schedules.
Once more, I arrived in my hotel room way after 2:00 am and my wake-up would be at 1:50 am the next night. I never consider going to the breakfast when arriving so late. I prefer to get a full 8-hour sleep than to interrupt my sleep to eat.
Next day because I have to go to bed early, I never have extraordinary plans to explore the island a bit more.
Gotta love the Niemeyer's staircase.
New York, February 2025
Yes... fresh from this month! And I still have many photos of previous layovers in New York from the past years in my hard drive. The New York fountain is still far from drying up. But as I said, photos in this post are very, very recent.
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Newark
It has been snowing a lot lately in New York so these views were not a surprise at all.
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Empire State Building |
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Central Park
Going to the Central Park after a generous snowfall is always a good idea. The scenary is amazing.
And the famous Bethesda Fountain which showed up in Home Alone 2 is a favourite spot of mine.
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Airbus A321LR
Gotta love this little transatlantic airliner. I do, so much!