Photo of the Day 3rd September 2023

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View from below of a very large 4 engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude with slats and flaps deployed from the front and rear of the wings respectively, and the nose raised significantly, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue belly and engine pods., and red stripes on the tail. The registration "G-CIVB" is painted in black on the outer section of the left wing. In the background, the sky is a flat grey.
G-CIVB, Boeing 747-436, BritishAirways, flying out of Runway 09R at London Heathrow, 3rd April 2014.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from right to left with flaps and slats extended from the rear and front of the wings respectively, the landing gear being tucked away, and the nose raised steeply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with a thick pale blue stripe running along the lower fuselage, with green "Cathay Pacific" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and a stylised image of a freen bird flying to the left, appearing to have been drawn with a single brush stroke, just behind the cockpit windows in dark green. That same bird logo appears in a larger form in white on the green tail. behind, the sky is a flat light blue.
B-LRM, Airbus A350-941, Cathay Pacific, powering out of Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 26th January 2018.

 

Side view of a 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, with a yellow, orange, and red stripe running along the body, with dark blue "Aero Lloyd" titles overlaid on the lower forward fuselage. The tail has a diagonal yellow, orange, and red stripe, with more "Aero Lloyd" titles. In the background, a dark blue and grey ttwin engined jet airliner with "British Airways" titles on the upper forward fuselage is taxiing to the left, with the airfield strecthing off into the far distance, with trees making up the skyline, under a flat grey sky.
D-ALLD, McDonnnell Douglas MD83, Aero Lloyd, taxiing at Frankfurt Airport, either 1993 or 1996.