Photo of the Day 29th December 2023.

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Side view of a very long and thin white and grey 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from leftto to right, under a bright but hazy sky.
EI-TLC, Douglas DC-8-73, TransLift Airways, taxiing to it’s gate at Manchester Airport, some time between April 1992 and March 1994.
I’m not sire if the pair of Transair Cambodia HS748’s parked in the top right corner of the frame ever ended up being delivered, they were there for a long time!

Low side view of a white and blue twin engined jet airliner flying at a high altitude, leaving white contrails in a deep blue sky.
EI-DPZ, Boeing 737-8AS, Ryanair, operating FR287 from Stansted to Dublin, at 34000 feet over my back garden in Royton,18th April 2023.

 

Side view of a white, twin propellor-engined light aircraft taxiing from left to right, with a pale white sky dominating the rest of the frame.
G-OACG, Piper PA-34-200T Seneca II, CEGA Aviation, at Luton Airport, some time in the late 1990s.

 

Side view of a white, twin propellor engined airliner with a red tail taxiing from right to left, with some hangars and office buildings on the far side of the airport in the background.
HB-AKC, Saab SF340B, Crossair, at Geneva Cointrin, either 1993 or 1996.

 

Side view of a white, green, and red three engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left, with a low airport building dissapearing into haze in the background.
LZ-BTI, Tupolev TU154, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, at Paris Orly, either 1993 or 1996.