Photo Of The Day 18th August 2026.

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On: August 18, 2026

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing away from the camera. The plane is largely white, with a deep purple belly and engine pods under the wings, and yellow rear fuselage and tail. There are blue "Olympus" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the black registration "SX-ACP" on the lower rear. The tail has a blue image of the head of a person with long, flowing hair, wearing a floral crown, and with chains of flowers behind them. Strong sunlight from the upper right corner casts a shadow under the plane towards the bottom left. The plane is parked facing a strip of grass with a mesh metal barrier on the other side, with a large concrete area beyond filling the rest of the frame.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined , military amphibious aircraft flying from left to right and slightly away from the camera at a very low altitude, with undercarriage lowered and flaps slightly extended from the rear of the wings, and the nose slightly raised, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with dark grey, almost black patches around the nose and cockpit, and the upper rear fuselage, and green and brown camouflage on top of the wings. There are a blue, white, and red roundel, outlined in yellow, and a large, red, upper-case letter "Y" on the side of the rear fuselage, the black serial "JV928" on the base of the tail, and a blue, white, and red fin flash towards the top of the tail. Large blue and red roundels are on the upper outer panels of the wings. Green grass fills the foreground, lining the side of the runway, with more grass on the other side of the runway leading up to a grey, drum-shaped hangar on the left of the frame, and a couple of small aircraft painted yellow in the middle. Trees, bushes, and green fields in the distance lead off to meet flat grey sky at the top of the frame.

On This Day 18th August 2024.

Side view of a single engined, World War 2-era military fighter plane, mounted on a pole in a flying pose. The plane is mostly covered in a grey and olive green camouflage scheme, with the undersides of the wings and belly being a creamy colour. There is a yellow, blue, white, and red roundel on the side of the rear fuselage, preceded by the creamy-green letters "QY" , and followed by a "J", with the black serial "W3644" on a creamy-green band around the rear fuselage right in front of the tail. A pole rising up from the ground is connected to the plane where the wings meet the fuselage, directly under the cockpit Green trees fill the bottom of the frame, with dramatic grey sky filling the top.

Tails Tuesday 18th August 2026.

Vertically-oriented close-up of the white tail and rear fuselage of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the left. The black partial text "G 767" is on the side of the rear fuselage, with small black letters "KDH" on the side of the nose-cone. There is large black text "SAS", with a gold drop-shadow to the bottom right, in the middle of the tail. Squares of grey concrete apron fill the bottom right of the background, with a grey and black building stretching across the frame beyond that. Several grey and blue airliners with grey, blue, and red tails are parked in the distance, under bright but hazy skies.

Close-up of the tail-boom and tail of a black helicopter flying from left to right, just a handful of metres above the ground. The tail-boom is thicker and rounder than on most helicopters, and has no rotor at the end, just a pair of large, vertical black plates at the ends of a horizontal stabiliser mounted on top of the boom, shortly before it ends. The white text "MD520N" is on top of the outer face of the nearest vertical plate. Under the tails, a small, black support extends downwards, attached to a small red beacon light. The end of the engine exhaust, at the rear of the body, is just visible on the left of the frame, with jellied, super-heated air blurring the background, and pieces of recently cut grass swirling around, with trees blurred in the bottom of the background The main rotors can be seen at the top of the frame, coming from the right, almost frozen in place, with very pale blue sky filling the top of the frame.

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