Side view of a very blue, twin engined jet airliner acelerating along a black runway during it's take-off roll. The plane is in a metallic blue livery, with large white "ITA" titles on the upper forward fuselage, over small white text "Airways", amd the white registration "EI-DTM" on the lower rear fuselage. The tail is the same blue, with green, white, and red bands representing the Italian flag running down the trailing edge and round the tail-cone. Green grass and grey taxiways fill the foreground, with trees in the distance, under grey sky.Rear side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner, facing to the right but being pushed back to the left by a low-slung blue tug peeking into the frame on the right. The plane is largely white, with partially obscured titles "sa Cityline" on the lower forward fuselage, and the black registration "D-BELT" on the rear fuselage, just in front of a small German flag. The tail and the fillet just in front of it are dark blue, with the yellow outline of a circle containing a highly stylised yellow bird mostly made up of straight lines. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a heavily glazed terminal building stretching all the way across the frame, with one of the windows replaced with a large yellow square with the black number "5" in the middle. A grey hangar with a wide open door fills most of the top of the frame from the right, with trees on the left.Twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude, with undercarriage lowered and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is mostly white, with a red-yellow-white-yellow-red stripe running along the body under the passenger windows, and a black belly, the stripe and belly sweeping up into the lower reaches of the tail, and repeated on the sides of the engines under the wings. There are blocky, black, "Inter European" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and large, black, diagonal "IEA" titles on the tail. Flat grey sky fills the rest of the frame.Side view of a rather squat and boxy, high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is largely white, with a couple of thin, green pinstripes over a thicker, dark green stripe at the bottom of the fuselage, green "Manx" titles under the cockpit windows and above the main passenger door at the rear, and the black registration "G-LEGS" at the upper rear of the fuselage. The tail is the same dark green, with a thick red stripe outline in white running through the middle, with a white, armoured Triskelion - 3 legs seemingly joined at the hip and appearing to run in a circle - in the centre. Large white sponsons connected to the bottom of the fuselage cover the main wheels, with a white strut coming up and out from the top, supporting the outer panels of the wings. Reddish-grey squares of concrete apron fill the foreground and much of the background, with a strip of grass running through the middle-right, and 3 planes parked in the background. More grass in the distance leads up to several black hangars with cars and planes parked outside, and more than a few trees, under bright but cloudy skies.Side view of a large, single engined military torpedo-bomber bi-plane taxiing from left to right along a grey runway. The plane is largely light grey, with dark grey on the top of the body, with a yellow stripe running along the body from under the cockpit, a blue, white and red roundel on the rear fuselage just aft of the cockpit, and a blie, red, and blue diagonal band just behind that, overlaid with the white text "A2A" The black serial "W5856" is under the horizontal stabiliser, with a series of black and white stripes on the overwise grey tail just above it. There is a large black torpedo with a red nose-cone hanging under the fuselage, between the main wheels. The crew of 3, all bundled up in the iconic brown leather flying jackets and leather helmets, sit in open cockpits, the 2 men sitting behind the pilot seeming to hang on for grim death. Green grass fills the foreground, with a white piston-engined airliner in the background on the left, and a gey and blue hangar on the right, and trees and hills in the distance under grey sky.Side view of a white, single engined light aircraft parked on grass facing to the right and away from the camera, although it's rear fuselage is hanging out over a tarmac taxiway. There is a 2-tone blue stripe running along the body, sweeping up along the forward edge of the tail. The registration "G-BPJD" is on the rear fuselage in a dark blue. In the background, a brown brick control tower is on the left of the frame, with other light aircraft parked behind this plane in the middle and on the right. Trees line the airfield perimeter, under flat grey skies.

On This Day 11th May 1996.

Side view of a bright yellow, single-engined biplane taxiing from left to right on grass. The plane has a large, blue, white, and red roundel just below and aft of the rear cockpit, with the black letters "RCO" on one side, and "U" on the other. Similar roundels are on the outer panels of the top of the upper wing. The black serial "DF128" is on the lower rear fuselage, under the tail. The tail is also bright yellow, with a large, square fin flash in blue, white, and red. The pilot is sitting in the open rear cockpit, and a man wearing green fatigues is walking alongside the right wingtips. Green grass fills the foreground, with a grey hangar and red and blue shipping containers in the background on the left, and trees on the right, under flat grey sky.

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