A320 CS-TNS on the tarmac at Lisbon airport shortly to be flown without passengers, cargo or cabin crew to nearby Porto. The fuel load is very low since our flight is quite short. On empty flights such as this one it becomes clear that these airplanes are made to fly with a loaded wing which makes aircraft handling more pilot friendly.
Lenticular cloud formation over Spain while enroute from Zurich to Porto in A320 CS-TNM.
A319 CS-TTJ CFM 56-5B5 engine fan blades and spinner. This part of the engine is powered by the low pressure turbine along with the low pressure compressor. The speed at which this assembly rotates is expressed as a percentage of the maximum allowable speed and is called N1.
The beautiful valley of the Douro river in northern Portugal seen from A319 CS-TTK descending from Milan-Malpensa to Porto. 
Up close with the sunlit standby attitude indicator. This is the only conventional gyroscopic intrument on the airbus flight deck and since its powered by a very reliable DC electric source, when all goes wrong with other flight instruments, you can usually count on this one. 
