Photo of the Day 19th June 2023

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Side view of a twin propellor engined airliner parked inside an airport terminal building, facing to the right. The plane is mostly cream coloured, with a thick red stripe running along the body, as well on the top of the engines, and the wingtips. There is a mannequin sitting in the planes cockpit, and a cardboard black and white cut-out figurepropped up by the tail. In the foreground, some white seats have been taped together, with some rolls of green material in metal cages are behind them, under the planes nose. Above, part of the roofs structure can be seen, with concrete beams surrounded by metal supports.
D-IGUN, De Haviland DH.89A Dragon Rapide, part of the Air Classik collection, inside Terminal 1 at Frankfurt Airport, next to the entrance to the Zuschauerterrasse (Spectator Terraces), 16th October 1993.
Apparently, this had been removed from the roof after being sold to a private owner looking to use as spares to rebuild another Rapide.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a pair of green stripes running along the upper middle fuselage, above the wing, with green "Germania" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and a stylised green globe on the tail. The engines are a bright green, with white "flygermania" titles. Behind the planes tail is another white jet airliner, with blue "Thomas Cook.com" titles just peeking in to the left of the frame, while in the background is a large surface car parking area, seperated from the apron by a black chain link fence, with trees beyond that.
D-AGES, Boeing 737-75B, Germania, taxiing to Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, 19th June 2014.

 

Front view of a helicopter facing almost directly at the camera. The helicopter is mostly red, withthe nose being almost fully glazed. There is a small, white circular logo on the nosecone, and the letters "XD" on the cowling around the rotor mast. In the background, green grass leads off into the far distance, with houses vanishing into haze in the distance, under a hazy grey sky.
G-BKXD, Aérospatiale SA 365N Dauphin 2, Bond Helicopters, at Blackpool Airport, 30th April 1993.

 

Side view of a single engined light aircraft flying from left to right at a low altitude. The plane is mostly white, with a blue belly, and thin red and grey stripes running along the fuselage, as well as along the tail. In the background, the sky is a muddy grey, filling the frame except in the lower left corner, where some trees are visible.
G-PDSI, Cessna 172N Skyhawk II, on final approach to North Weald before the annual Fighter Meet airshow, 11th May 1996.

 

Side vieww of a T-tailed, high-winged 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and a blue stripe running along the body. There are blue "SABENA" titleson the upper forward fuselage, with smaller "Belgian World Airlines" titles on the lower rear fuselage. The tail is a light bluye, woth a white circle split in 2 by a stylised blue letter "s". In the background, a similar plane is taxiing on a taxiway, with large swathes of grass on either side, with hills rising in the far distance.
OO-MJE, British Aerospace 146-200, Sabena, taxiing out to the runway at Edinburgh Airport, 12th January 1995.