Photo of the Day 14th July 2023

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Side view of a high-winged, T-tailed, twin propellor-engined airliner travelling from right to left on a runway. The plane is mostly purple, with white billboard-style "flybe" titles above a series of 6 white dots on the forward fuselage. a thick yellow and red band seperates the main fuselage from the white rear fuselage and tail. The "flybe" titles are repeated on the tail, this time in dark and light blue, above a series of 6 coloured dots. There are small "operated by Stobart Air" titles in white towards the rear of the purple part of the body. In the background, there is a large green metal structure in front of a large grey hangar on the right, with trees on the left, Above, the sky is a dismal grey.
EI-REM, ATR72-500, Flybe, operated by Stobart Air, starting it’s take off roll on Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 15th March 2017.

Side view of a twin propellor-engined biplane flying from left to right at low level. The plane is mostly green, with a black stripe outlined in white running the length of the body. The registration "G-AEML" is on the rear fuselage in black, outlined in white. The cockpit is heavily glazed, with large triangular passenger cabin windows. Behind, the sky is a mass of white cloud.
G-AEML, De Haviland DH89A Dragon Rapide, performing a flying routine at the annual airshow at Manchester Barton, 22nd May 1994.

 

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage. The plane is mostly white, with dark blue "Ryanair" titles on the lower forward fuselage, next to a winged yellow Irish harp. The rear fuselage and tail is mostly dark blue, with a yellow band seperating it from the rest of the white body. The tail has a large, winged, yellow Irish harp. In the background, large grassed areas lead off to a grey fence, with some tbushes scattered around it, and a river beyond. On the far side of the river, an industrial landscape is vanishing into the bright, hazy sky.
EI-CCU, British Aircraft Corporation BAC 1-11-531FS, Ryanair, taxiing to the terminal at Liverpool Speke, some time in the early 1990s.