Photo of the Day 28th May 2026.

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On: May 28, 2026

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Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a blue belly, and blue "Kabo Air" titles on the upper forward fuselage, between the upper and lower deck cabin windows. A blue circle with a red outline is on the tail, with a stylised white lightning bolt (or possibly upper case letter "N") in the middle. A tall, grey lighting pole in the foreground partially obscures the tail-cone and tail. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with various white airport trucks and mobile airstairs gathered in the bottom right corner. Trees fill the background, under grey skies.

‘Throw Thursday 28th May 2026.

Low side view of a 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. The plane is mostly white, with blue, billboard-style "Air Serbia" titles on the forward fuselage, partially obscured by the wings, repeated in red under the body. The black registration "YU-APC" is on the upper rear fuselage next to a red, blue, and white Serbian flag. The top of the tail is red, with the base being blue, with a white scrollwork two-headed eagle with a pale blue chest overlaid on the 2 colours. The engine pods under the wings have a red top, white bottom, and diagonal blue tripe in the middle. Flat grey sky fills the background.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner moving along a black runway. The plane is largely white, with dark blue "Air UK" titles on the upper forward fuselage, immediately aft of the cockpit windows, and the black registration "G-BAKL" on a filet at the front of the white tail. There are dark-, mid-, and light-blue stripes running along the body, covering the oval passenger cabin windows, getting narrower and sweeping up along the leading edge of the tail, looking like a flag pole for a waving, half British flag. Green grass fills the foreground, lining the side of the runway, with more grass and intersecting taxiways in the background. In the distance, yellow airbridges hang off a grey building, with baggage carts and other airport vehicles parked in front, and grey and dark blue jet airliners parked on either side of the image.

Front side view of a 3 engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude, it's main gear about as close as you can be to a runway without actually touching it, with the nose-wheel just a bit higher up. The acres of flaps hanging from behind the wing, and the relatively shallow nose angle suggests the plane is in the process of landing. The plane is mostly white, with a brown, red, and yellow stripe coming down from the top of the forward fuselage, then along the body, covering most of the passenger cabin windows as it moves rearwards, overlaid with white "Iberia" titles on the upper forward fuselage. A stylised, red, lower-case letter "I" and yellow, uppercase letter "B" fill most of the tail above the centre-mounted engine, with a gold crown in the top part of the "I", and the black registration "EC-DEA" right at the top of the tail, repeated on the lower rear fuselage. Bright, red-tinged lights are shining in the wing root, and at the top of the nose-wheel leg. Yellowing grass fills the foreground, lining the side of the runway, with more grass in the background leading up to a high concrete wall, with trees and buildings beyond, under hazy grey sky.

Somewhat grainy , low, side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with flaps extended from the rear of the wings, the undercarriage stowed away, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is almost entirely white, with a thin grey and blue stripe running along the body, under the passenger cabin windows, and blue "Austrian Airlines" titles on the upper forward fusealge. The tail is red, with a broad white stripe running across it, overlaid with a stylised red arrowhead on the middle. White engine pods are mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. The black registration "OE-LMN" is barely visible under the left wing. Grey sky fills the rest of the image.

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