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Today at Oshkosh AirVenture 2013

19205 makes 4k Flight Hours in EUNavFor Mission in Somalia region

In July the 22nd the Portuguese Navy Helicopter Westland Lynx Tail number 19205 reached 4000 hours of flight during its mission in the Aden Gulf and Indian Ocean.
The 19205 now called "Playboy" as it's called after the flight detachment assigned flies in Somalia region for the second time as the first was in 2011 with the Fénix detachment witch I was part of.
This Helicopter is the last of the Portuguese Navy Helicopter fleet of five Westland Super Lynx Mk95 that now operate from the "Vasco da Gama" class frigates and "Bartolomeu Dias" class frigates.

As note to readers recently the Portuguese Navy Helicopters reached the total number of 20,000 hours of flight divided by Five helicopters.

Couldn't forget the guys of "Playboy Flight" detachment operating from N.R.P. "Alvares Cabral" and from here send a huge  hug to all and wish you all a safe return home. Oh, and Guys please take some pictures of those special nose/side arts will you?

There's EAA's Oshkosh 2013

EAA's Instagram

Some Blogs Facebook pages and YouTube channels from american friends aviation press and associations are almost bombing Me with information regarding this years EAA's Oshkosh Spirit of Aviation. I still think that this is a trip of a lifetime to Me and hopefully one day I will be able to get to Oshkosh until there let's share the news and the views of those who being there keep in mind those who don't.

Aero TV Network - Airborne Special Oshkosh Day One

Aero TV Network - Airborne Special Oshkosh Day Two

AVWeb report about the "Smallets Jet" attending to Oshkosh AirVenture

To know more about this years edition of Oshkosh AirVenture heres the link of the AirVenture Live by EAA. Enjoy! http://www.airventure.org/live/

Lockheed U-2 at 70,000 ft

This video shows BBC's Top Gear presenter James May, or Captain Slow to the fans flying in a US Air Force U-2 at 70,000 ft for another BBC show images of the flight are staggering and What a view. Breathtaking no doubt.

A Pilot Career with the Airlines

Today a friend of mine, Alan Carter who runs the blog pilotisnotafourletterword posted on his Facebook page an interesting article about Pilot Career and Airlines on witch it talks about the options to become an airline pilot, schemes, FTO choice, etc.

Here it is: pilotcareernews.com

Pic of the Day!

Today's "Pic of the Day" is a photo of the Santa Cruz Airfield. Why? Well today I went in a small flight to Santa Cruz, LPSC from Cascais, LPCS to train some touch and go and engine failure in circuit. Santa Cruz is a quite short runway in the western coast of Portugal and at about 30 minutes from Cascais by small airplane like a Cessna 172 as the one that took me there today. The runway is only 546 meters long and has some greenhouses close to the runway 35 threshold so it is used very often for those who fly from Cascais to practice their landings and sometimes as the airfield is near the beach and the Santa Cruz village pilots stop to enjoy a coffee at the airfield bar or a good fresh fish lunch in the village.

The aircraft in the photo belongs to the local airclub that operates from Santa Cruz and the photograph has its copyrights written and was retrieved from the Portuguese Ultralight Association Airfields Map.

New Aerodrome in Portugal

Aviation isn't only made by bad news around here at least I try not to think as it and here is a video of the almost ready Aerodrome of Castelo Branco. The runway already has its markings and the star of operation is set to be soon, still this year are the predictions.

The new airfield is a strong gamble by the local City Hall who is trying to bring industry and business companies to the local. Integrated with the airfield there is a logistical hub and the City Hall intentions are to set cargo operations via air and road as the Aerodrome is not far from the Spanish border and can make a difference to clients from the area who will not have to wait for their products to come from Lisboa, LPPT, or from Porto, LPPR Airports.

Aerodromo de Castelo Branco from sky photo on Vimeo.

New Boeing 787-9 rolled out with new paint

Last week was another week of nightmare to Boeing's Dreamliner Program but at least it ended with a good news, the roll out of the new version of the Dreamliner the "-9", this time with a new paint job that is well suited. I like it.

Image copyrights Boeing

Portuguese C212 Aviocar

This is the tail of the Portuguese Casa C-212 Aviocar from the 401 Squad "Scientists" a very nice detail that this picture doesn't do the proper justice to its quality.

All the C212 fleet has been replaced by the newly EADS Casa C-295M and the C-212 fleet is now parked at Montijo Airbase waiting for new owners.

Pic of the Day!

Recent international news claim that an immigrant in New Zealand is to fat to live there, apparently it seems that the State considers that it will become to expensive in healthcare terms. To me this kind of news seems quite comic nothing more, people around here aren't so fat as in other countries and we have a well open an tolerant society regarding immigrants so this can only be a joke.

Here's the Pic of the Day reminding that everyone can fly... even fat ones. Enjoy!

Pic of the Day!

Today's pic is a view from space of the Gibraltar strait Northern Africa and Southern Spain and Portugal. Enjoy.

Portuguese Flag Airline TAP Dusseldorf-Lisbon route

So TAP Portugal starts flying from Dusseldorf to Lisbon and inaugural flight made by my cousin Luís Almeida. Congrats "Mister"!

Landing St.Barths in a piper aztec

Here are two things I love in aviation, on one side the Piper Aztec that was the aircraft on witch I have made my Multi Engine and Instrument Rating examination and St. Barths. in the French Caribbean one of the most challenging runways there is in the world.

AirVenture 2013 -- The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration!

In just about 3 days will start probably the Biggest and Best Aviation Airshow of the world, Oshkosh Air Venture 2013. Here's a sneak peek of this years edition.

Viseu Airshow August 11th.

Panthera maiden flight

Now here's a project that we should keep our eyes in. The new Pipistrel Panthera. Very smooth lines and composite materials to keep the weight down and performance up high.

Diamond's New DA52

Another Boeing this time a Southwest 737

A few days ago a Southwest Boeing 737 had a nose gear collapse after landing at New York La Guardia Airport.

This is a video recorded by a passenger of the moment of the landing.

Boeing 787 Nightmare-liner

It burns it leaks fuel it seems to do everything that a plane should not do in normal conditions. Is the Dream Liner becoming more like a Nightmare Liner?

Moments ago Aviation Herald reported that an Air India B788, registration VT-ANL from Delhi to Kolkata India, had an oven emitting some smoke in the aft galley, the crew rapidly disconnected the power and discharged fire extinguishers onto and into the oven. The fire was put out and the aircraft landed safely in Kolkata. After an inspection it was determined that the fire was contained only inside the oven so the oven was removed and the aircraft could continue schedule flights.

Not long time ago an Ethiopian Airways had a fire when on the ground at Heathrow Airport, London (UK), prior to that a Japan Airlines JAL had another fire this time on its battery witch caused the return to the drawing boards to improve the battery module. And lets not forget the leaking fuel problems on another JAL 787. Things to the 787 and Boeing aren't as good as they wanted to and this problems all together can become a major set back in sales right now that Boeing presented the new 787-9, a larger version of the Dream Liner.

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