Photo of the Day 16th January 2026.

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On: January 16, 2026

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left along a grey taxiway. The plane is mostly white, with a red and yellow stripe coming from under the forward fuselage, sweeping up over the wings, and along the rear fuselage, the red getting wider as it moves rearwards, until it fills the tail. There is a second yellow stripe on the rear fuselage, and yellow swirls on the tail, with a smaller version of the red and yellow tail appearing on the up-turned wingtips. There are red titles on the upper forward fuselage, in a Chinese script forward of the mid-cabin door, and in English aft of that door. The black registration "B-1020"is on the upper rear fuselage. The top floor and grey roof of an airport building stretches across the foreground, very pale blue very large fuel tanks in the background, behind a grey and blue low building, meeting foggy grey sky.

On This Day 16th January 1995.

Side view of a helicopter ground-taxiing from right to left along a grey taxiway. The chopper is blue on top, red along the middle, and white at the bottom. There are white "Bristow" titles on the sides of the engine cowling on the top of the fuselage, and the white registration "G-BLXR" on the thick tail boom. Red sponsons on the sides of the lower rear fuselage hold the main undercarriage, with floatation bags around the nose, under the cockpit windows, ready to be inflated should a sea landing be neccesary. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a taxiway wending it's way through large patches of grass in the background, and a couple of high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliners towards the left of the frame. Rolling hills and blue-grey sky in the distance fill the rest of the frame.

Frankfurt Friday 16th January 2026.

Side view of a grey, high-winged, 4 propellor-engined cargo plane taxiing from right to left. The sides and belly are grey, while the top section is white, with a dark blue and red strip running along the side of the fuselage, overlaid with blue and red "HeavyLift" titles on both the front and rear of the fuselage. The tail is red with a large, white uppercase letter "H" with a heavy, blue drop shadow. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with blue metal frames on either side at the bottom, while large grassed areas divided by a runway lead up to cream coloured hangars with large military transport parked on the ramp in front, slowly vanishing into grey haze.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. There is a blue stripe running along the body, just under the passenger cabin windows, , getting wider as it sweeps up into the tail, which is filled with a waving half of the flag of the UK. There are large blue "Air UK" titles on the upper forward fuselage. Large concrete slabs of taxiway fill the foreground, with sandy brown building with blue vertical support beams stretching across the background, with the airfield beyond being swallowed up in mist.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right along a grey taxiway. The top of the plane is white, with a mauve belly, and a grey stripe running along the body, under the passenger cabin windows, a design replicated on the engine pods slung under the wings. There are mauve "Air Berlin" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and black registration "D-ABAD" on the upper rear fuselage, next to a small German flag., with additional black text "Boeing 737-400" on the rear fuselage below the rear passenger windows. A grey concrete taxiway marked with yellow lines fills the foreground, while a sandy brown building with blue piping stretches across the background, with trees in the far distance being swallowed up in haze.

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