Photo of the Day 21st January 2024.

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Side view of a white, twin angined jet airliner, with a blue and red tail, and the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right.
F-GLIK, Canadair CRJ-100ER, Air France Air Inter Express, at London Heathrow, some time in the late 1990s.

Side view of a white and blue, very large, 4 engined jet cargo plane, taxiing from left to right, with a large grey hangar in the background, under a bright but hazy sky.
B-18721, Boeing 747-409F, China Airlines Cargo, taxiing to the cargo ramp at Manchester Airport, 21st January 2006.
Let’s see if anyone can find where I removed a lamp post – I’m almost impressed with myself for editing that out!

 

Side view of a dark blue and grey, twin engined jet airliner, taxiing from left to rightin front of a brown terminal building with a white and red airliner parked nose in in the background, under a leaden grey sky.
G-BUSG, Airbus A320-211, British Airways, at Zurich Kloten, either 1993 or 1996.

 

Side view of a white and orange, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right, with acres of green grass leading off to trees in the distance, slowly vanish into murky grey skies.
EC-EVB, McDonnell Douglas MD87, Iberia, at Dusseldorf Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

 

Side view of a white and red, high-winged, twin propellor engined airliner just raising it's nose wheel off a grass runway, with trees in the background, under a grey sky.
G-BEEG, Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander, Northern Airlines, taking off from one of the grass runways at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.