Photo of the Day 20th June 2023

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a deep blue lower half, seperated by blue, white, and thin red stripes running the length of the body. There are blue "Britannia" tiitles on the upper forward fuselage, just aft of a large blue head wearing a helmet with a large, backward-swept plume. The tail is almost reversed, white ant the base and deep blue at the top, seperated by a series of white, blue, and red stripes. Overlaid on the tail is the image of a seated woman carrying a trident vertically in her left hand, her right hand holding a circular shield bearng a blue and white variant of the Union Flag, her head covered with the helmet mentioned earlier. The left side of the plane has an airbridge attached to door just forward of the wing. There is a light blue, low-slung truck attached to the nose wheel by a long pole. In the foreground is a black chainlink fence, with a couple of luggage carts parked to the lower left of the frame. Above it all, the sky is a flat grey.
G-BYAD, Boeing 757-204, Britannia, parked on Gate 201 at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

Side view of a T-tailed, twin engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a silver belly, and a red, orange, and yellow stripoes running along the body, as well as along the engines, and diagonally across the tail. There are dark blue "Aero Lloyd"titles on the lower forward fuselage, as well as diagonally on the tail. In the background, there is a dark blue and grey jet airliner taxiing out of frame on the left, while the rest of the picture is a view across large grassed areas leading up to trees in the far distance.
D-ALLD, McDonnell Douglas MD83, Aero Lloyd, at Frankfurt Airport, 1993 or 1996.
Side view of a twin engined bizjet taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a blue and black stripe running along the body and sweeping up into the tail. In the background, a taxiway delineated by a yellow centre-line wends it's way between grassed areas.
D-CCDB, Dassault Falcon 20F-5, at Dusseldorf Airport, 1993 or 1996.
Side view of a helicopter facing to the left. The helicopter is mostly white, with a thinfgreen, blue, and yellow stripe running along the body, with "Police" titles overlaid on the rear fuselage, and a Merseyside Police badge on the main door. There are large, black containers for searchlights slung under the front and rear fuselage. In the background, large grassed areas lead off to a river in the distance, while slightly nearer, a twin propellor airliner is just poking in to view.
G-BOOV, Aerospatiale AS355F2 Ecureuil II, Police Aviation Services, at Liverpool Speke airport, some time in the early 1990s.
Side view of a T-tailed, 4 engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage. The planes body is mostly white, with a black patch over the top of the nose, directly in front of the cockpit, and large "Tarom" titles on the lower forward fuselage. The tail is blue, with a white circle overlaid with the stylised image of a flying bird. In the background, 3 very large 4 engined jet airliners are clustered together in the top left corner, the rest of the image being a view across the airfield before vanishing in to haze in the distance.
YR-IRE, Ilyushin IL-62M, Tarom, at Amsterdam Schipol, either 1992, 1993, or 1996.