Photo of the Day 1st November 2023

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left and slightly towards the camera. The plane is mostly white, with large blue "Adria" billboard-style titles on the forward fuselage, and the black letters "BF" above the front of the cockpit windows. There is a large, dark blue letter "A" on the tail, with an aquamarine reflection just below it. In the foregrounbd, tarmac fills most of the bottom of the frame, with the white tail of anopther plane in the lower right corner, while in the background, more tarmac and grass leads up to a runway and a large black hangar in the far distance.
SL-ABF or S5-ABF, Douglas DC9-32, Adria Airways, taxiing to it’s gate on Pier B at Manchester Airport, either between December 1992 and March 1993 (SL-ABF), or between October 1993 and June 2001 (S5-ABF).

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left from a slightly elevatedf viewpoint. The plane is mostly white, with blue "Air France titles on the forward upper fuselage, and a series of diagonal blue stripes on the tail, thickest at the front and getting thinner as they move rearwards, and a single thick red stripe at the rear. In the background, a white plane with blue and yellow stripes is on the left of the frame, with buses behind lined up side by side, stretching across the whole frame.
F-GFUD, Boeing 737-33A, Air France, at Paris Orly, 1st November 1993.

 

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner moving from right to left on a runway, with flaps extended from below the wings, lift dumpers raised above it, and the tail cone split to act as speed brakes, suggesting it has just landed. The plane is almost entirely white, with a thin green and blue stripe running along the body from just behind the nose, getting wider as it runs towards the rear. The tail is dark blue with a thick diagonal white stripe containing a stylised lower-case letter "b" in black, with blue and green drop shadows. In the foreground, a body of water lies a few feet below the level of the runway, a retaining quay wall that looks rather brown and grimey rising up from the water to meet the other level, it's edge marked by bright orange and white poles located every few feet. In the background, buildings and trees rise above the plane, with occasional electricity pylons and associated wires rising above them, with the sky behind being pale blue with fluffy white clouds.
HB-IXB, British Aerospace 146-200A, Business Air, slowing down on the runway after landing at London City, 1st Novermber 1994.