Manchester Monday 20th July 2026.

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On: July 20, 2026

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Front view of a twin engined jet airliner being towed from right to left, although the white tug doing the towing has turned back to the right, and the plane is slowly turning to follow. The plane is white, with a red and yellow stripe coming from under the forward fuselage, swooping over the wing and back down under the rear fuselage, widening over the wing to fill the rear fuselage and tail. There are red "Hainan Airlines" titles on the upper fuselage, in a Chinese script between the two forward cabin doors, and in English over the wing root. The black registration "B-304K" can be seen on the upper rear fuselage. An intricate yellow and gold flowery design fills the red tale. Grey squares of concrete apron fills the foreground and most of the background, with temporary buildings, white and blue mobile airstairs, and the metal support structure of a new pier under construction in the background.

Side view of a creamy-brown, single-engined light aircraft parked facing to the right on grass. A thin dark brown stripe runs along the plane's body from the propellor, widening slightly as it moves rearwards. A slightly lighter brown stripe underneath this stripe starts from halfway along the engine cowling, widening and going lower as it moves rearwards, with another, darker strip below that that wraps under the rear fuselage, the whole, three-toned stripe overlaid on the rear fuselage with the creamy-brown registration "G-KITE". Similar stripes run along the spats over the undercarriage. Green grass fills the foreground, with a selection of other light aircraft parked in the background on the left, with the red metal frame of a new building, , partially covered in scaffolding stretches across the frame in the distance, in front of tall green trees on the left, with flat grey sky filling the rest.

Close-up of the nose and fuselage of a grey, 4 propellor-engined military aircraft on display in a museum. A flat glass panel in the bottom of the nose is matched by a raised, arched, glazed canopy on the top, in front of the cockpit. A large, bulbous radome is mounted on the lower forward fuselage, under the cockpit. The grey wings stick out of the fuselage not too far behind the cockpit, with the inner engine on the right wing visible on the left, with it's 2 rows of contra-rotating propellors. In the foreground, a woman with short grey hair and wearing a purple coat is standing below the plane, looking up at it, next to a pair of blue information boards giving details about this plane. In the background, an elevated walkway round the edge of the building is lined with wood and metal, with a large window in the top left corner, and a blue and yellow glider suspended from the ceiling, with a mannequin dressed in blue overalls and a blue helmet hanging from the flying position in front of the wings.

A pair of grey, single-engined, military jet fighters flying from right to left at a low altitude, with flaps extended from the rear of the wings and undercarriage lowered, including out-rigger wheels on the ends of the wings, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting they have just taken off. Unlike most single-engined fighter jets, these have a pair of jet exhausts on each side, one under the front of the wing and one under the rear, as opposed to a single outlet at the rear of the body - these exhaust ports can rotate, to create thrust in different directions, and the front exhaust ports can be seen here pointing slightly down, suggesting that the planes have both done a short take-off, supported by some thrust from the engines as well as lift from the wings. In the background, a grey and red hangar can be seen in the bottom right corner, with another, lower, grey hangar in the bottom right corner, with trees between, with flat grey sky filling the rest of the frame.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left along a grey concrete taxiway. The plane is almost entirely white, with the word "viva" in black, blue, red, and green, on the lower forward fuselage, followed by the smaller, yellow word "air", both words in lower-case. The black registration "EC-FET" is on the lower rear fuselage. An abstract drawing, a small red circle in the black outline of a larger circle above a diagonal blue stripe, above a thicker, diagonal green stripe, with a yellow asterisk above the rest, fills the tail. Grey squares of concrete apron fill the foreground, with wide strips of green grass lining a black runway that runs from side to side across the background, and a white, twin propellor-engined airliner with a blue tail with a white circle in the middle in the middle of the right side. Blac hangars stretch across the frame in the distance, under flat grey sky.

Side view of a twin propellor-engine airliner parked facing to the right, nose-in to a terminal building that stretches across the background. The plane is white, with a red and black stripe running along the body under the passenger cabin windows, turning up slightly into the lower reaches of the tail. There are black "Manx" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the black registration "G-LOGG" on the lower rear. The rear cabin door is open just in front of the tail, with the letters "ATP" slightly to the left in red. A pair of small, white vehicles with yellow roofs are parked in the foreground, one in front of the tail on the left, the other in front of the engine pod on the wing on the right, with wet concrete apron filling the rest of the foreground. A pink and white truck is parked on the opposite side of the plane from the open door, the trucks rear body raised up to be level with the plane to allow cleaners and caterers access.

On This Day 20th July 1996.

Side view (or is it a head-on shot? Who knows?) of a hot air balloon launching itself into the air. The balloon has a small basket at the bottom for crew and passengers, with a much, much larger canopy above which fills with hot air and relies on neutral buoyancy for flight. The canopy is mostly white, with a ring of black checked at the bottom, and black and blue checked squares on a white background at the top. There are red "Compaq" markings on either side at the bottom, and oval markings on each side around the widest point, a solid grey curve on the top and blue text "ComputerAid" curving on the bottom, with blue and black "IT Solutions" text in the middle. The black registration "G-BWPF" is displayed vertically in the middle at the widest point. Slightly yellowing green grass fills the bottom of the frame, with a white off-road vehicle parked on the right of the frame, with trees in the distance. Bright but hazy sky fills the rest of the frame.

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