It’s carnival time, let’s go to Rio! Today’s photo, taken from the Sugar Loaf mountain, shows a Tam aircraft on its final approach to Santos Dumond airport (SDU). The plane is coming from the south and getting aligned with the airport’s runway. The aircraft came from the north, turned around just in front of the Corcovado mountain, and moments before the photo was taken flew above the Flamengo neighbourhood. On the background you can see the Rio – Niteroi bridge.

Satellite view of Santos Dumond airport and the central region of Rio:

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The blog already had a video section, now it has a photo section too. We open it with a couple of photographs of our own, taken in what must surely be one of the most humble airports in the entire country, Barreirinhas airport in the state of Maranhão, on the Brazilian north-east.

If you want to fly over the mesmerizing Lençóis Maranhenses your light aircraft will take off from here. If you fly from São Luís to Barreirinhas you will land here too.

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