Photo of the Day 24th October 2023

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Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly purple, with yellow, red, and white bands around the rear fuselage, the white extending up to fill the tail. There are large white "flybe" titles on the forward fuselage above a series of large white dots, with smaller white "operated by Loganair" titles below, and white "Spirit of Lewis" titles under the nose. The engine pods are purple, and have white "Think in minutes not miles" titles in white. The registration "G-LGNA" is on the rear fuselage in white. The white tail has diagonal "flybe" titles in light and dark blue, above a series of 6 coloured dots. In the background, grass and taxiways lead off to trees in the distance, under a hazy blue sky.
G-LGNA, Saab SF340B, Flybe, operated by Loganair, taxiing past the Aviation Viewing Park after landing on Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 19th May 2016.

Side view of a very large 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right and slightly away from the camera at a rather misty airport. The plane has a red top and light grey belly, with a thick dark grey stripe and thin black stripe running along the body, the black stripe getting wider towards the rear. There are white "Northwest" titles on the grey stripe on the upper forward fuselage, under the passenger cabin windows on the upper deck. The red tail has the white outkine of a circle at the top, with a large letter "N" in the top right, and a small white triangle pointing North-West in the top left. The upturned wingtips are also painted red, while the engine pods are painted white. In the background, a smaller, twin engined jet airliner is taxiing away from the camera on the right of the frame, with grass leading off to trees and a dismal grey sky filling the rest of the frame.
N664US, Boeing 747-451, Northwest Airlines, at Amsterdam Schipol, 27th September 1996.

 

Closeup of the tail of a twin propellor-engined airliner parked facing to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and the last vestiges of a yellow stripe running along the lower half of the fuselage. There are dark blue "Brit Air" titles on the rear fuselage. The tail is white, with a yellow circle contining 3 white swirls connected to a triangle in the centre, overlaid with something that looks a bit like a blue chess piece. In the background, the nose of a similar plane is peeking out, under a grey sky.
F-____, ATR72-200, BritAir, at Lyon Satolas, 7th October 1996.

 

Closeup of the tail of a jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is almost entirely white, with a blue stripe along the leading edge of the tail, widening until it fills the top of the tail, whith a large blue image of a flying seahorse in the middle. There are white letters "BB" right at the top of the tail. In the background, there is a small, sandy-cloured building in the left of the frame, with a lighting pole behind it. Grass and runways lead off to a coupkle of dark coloured military cargo planes parked in fron of a cream coloured hangar in the far distance, slowly vanishing in to haze, under a bright but hazy sky.
EP-IBB, Airbus A300B4-605R, Iran Air, at Frankfurt Airport, 21st September 1996.

 

Closeup of the rear fuselage and tail of a jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with thin red and dark blue stripes running along the fuselage. The tail has the red and blue outlines of s circle in the middle, with the stylised image of a red flying bird overlaid on the top left. In the background, grass and runways lead off into the distance, with a small building painted in a red and white ch610TW, Boeing 767-ecker-board pattern right at the back, vanishing in to haze.
TC-ONJ, Airbus A321-131, Onur Air, at Dusseldorf Airport, 11th October 1996.

 

Close up of the tail of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left and slightly away from the camera. The plane is mostly white, with two thick red stripes running along the body. The tail is white, with a big red splodge in the middle, with white letters "TWA", with an US flag above it. Behind a white jet airliner with red engines can be see running from one side of the frame to the other, with 2 grey and dark blue planes right at the back.
N610TW, Boeing 767-231, TWA, at London Gatwick, some time in the 1990s.

 

Closeup of the tail of a jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a thick red and yellow stripe running along the body. The tail is also white, with large red lower case letters "IB" in red and yellow respectively, the "I" having a golden crown in the dot at the top. Smaller letters "GBN" can be seen in black at the top of the tail, and on the lower rear fuselage. The background is entirely made up of concrete slabs of apron area.
EC-GBN, Boeing 737-4Y0, Iberia, at London Heathrow, some time after April 1998.