Photo of the Day 5th September 2023

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Side view of a light helicopter parked on a concrete hardstanding surrounded by grass, facing to the right. The body is mostly dark blue, with a light blue lighting stripe under the cockpit windows. The roto mast on top of the body, tail boom, and tail are alsothe same dark blue. Behind, the airfield stretches off into the distance, it's perimeter marked by trees and bushes. Several light aircraft are parked across the airfield, mostly clustering around the control tower, which is just coming in to view in the top right corner. The sky above it all is mostly light blue with faint scattered white clouds.
G-HIZZ, Robinson R22 Beta II, at City Airport Manchester/Barton, 23rd May 2019.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude, with the undercarriage lowered, flaps extended from the rear of the wing, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is almost entirely orange, with large, white, billboard style "easyJet.com" titles running the length of the fuselage, with smaller white "easyjet" titles on the orange engine pods under the wings, and diagonally on the tail. The number "200" is painted under the cockpit windows, indicating the 200th Airbus aircraft operated by easyJet. Behind, the sky is a flat blue-grey.
G-EZUI, Airbus A320-214, easyJet, sailing past the Aviation Viewing Park after taking off from Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 5th September 2013.

 

Close up of the tail of a very large jet airliner parked facing to the left. The plane's body is mostly light blue,with a silver belly, and a thick dark blue and thinner white stripe running along the middle. There are large light blue "KLM" titles on the white tail. In the background, the airfield strtches off into the distance, with buildings vanishing in to the grey hazy sky.
PH-BUI, Boeing 747-206B(SUD), KLM, at Amsterdam Schipol, either 1992, 1993, or 1996.

 

Closeup of the tail of a very large jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a red stripe running along the body, and the sillhouette of an angelfish, red on top and blue on the bottom, on the tail. Behind, a low brown airport building runs across the bottom of the frame , with a view across the airfield behind this, vanishoing in to haze, below a grey sky.
9M-MHI, Boeing 747-236B, Malaysian Airlines, at Frankfurt Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

 

Slightly blurry and grainy side view of the rear fuselage and tail of a twin engined jet airlinre taxiing from right to left and slightly away from the camera. The body is white, with a thin red and gold stripe running from front to back, while the tail is red, with a stylised golden letter "S" in the middle. In the background, a couple of slightly larger planes can be seen in the distance.
G-OJSW, Boeing 737-8Q8, Sabre Airways, at London Gatwick, either 1999 or 2000.

 

Close up of the tail of a twin engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left. The planes body is white, with the registration "YU-AJK" in black on the upper rear fuselage under the tail. The front of the tail is blue, with the rear being red, with a stylised white flame in the middle. In the background, taxiways are seperated by stretches of grass, running off in to the distance.
YU-AJK, Douglas DC9-32, JAT Yugoslav Airlines, at London Heatrhrow, either 1887 or 1998.

 

Close up of the tail of atwin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The planes body is white, with the registration "D-AFFI" prominently displayed on the rear fuselage, just forward of a German flag (equal black, red, and yellow horizontal bands). The tail is dark blue, with a series of 12 yellow stars arranged in a circle. In the background, a large grassed area bisected by a black taxiway fills the rest of the frame.
D-AFFI, Fokker F50, Lufthansa Cityline, at Dusseldorf Airport, 11th October 1996.

 

Closeup of the tail of a three engined jet airliner parked facing to the right. The planes body and tail is white, with a large image of a peach on the tail. The centre engine intakehas the number "011", the last part of "L-1011" titles that were on the intake, and "-ABM", part of the registration "TF-ABM" on the rear fuselage. Part of the wing and horizontal tail are visible right at the bottom of the frame, while the background is is made up of streaky clouds.
TF-ABM, Lockheed L1011-1 Tristar 50, Peach Air (apparently, “peach” is an anagram of “cheap”!), parked on the far side of the T2 apron at Manchester Airport, 1997 or 1998.
Photo taken either from Runger Lane, or Melbourne Avenue.

 

Close up of the tail of a three engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The planes body is almost entirely white, with only a French flag (equal blue, white, and red vertical bars) visible on the rear fuselage. The letters "AOM" are on the tail, under a squiggly red line that seems to represent a flying bird. In the background, a tall lighting tower dominates the scene, with trees vanishing in to haze in the far distance.
F-GNEM, Douglas DC10-30, AOM Airlines, Paris Orly, 22nd September 1996.

 

Close up of the tail of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane's body is mostly white, with "Boeing 737" titles in red, under the rear cabin windows, and the registration "HB-IIE" on the ulpper rear fuselage. The tail is red, with a large white cross in the centre. In the background, another white twin engined jet airliner is taxiiing away from the camera on the upper left of the frame, with smaller planes parked in the upper right. large swathes of grass lead off to trees on the horizon, slowly vanishing in to haze.
HB-IIE, Boeing 737-3Q8, TEA Switzerland, at Zurich Kloten, 28th September 1996.