Photo Of The Day 20th August 2026.

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On: August 20, 2026

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner rotating as it takes off from a runway at an airport. The plane is largely white with a dark blue belly, a twisted red and blue ribbon on the upper forward fuselage, and black "British Airways" titles on the lower forward fuselage. The black registration "G-BZHA" is on the lower rear fuselage, with the letters "ZHA" repeated on the nose wheel doors in white. The tail is white, with a pair of wavy red lines either side of a wavy blue line, all separated by white., and the black letters "HA" right at the top. Grey taxiways fill the foreground, with a couple of other white airliners visible in the background under this plane. Grey-blue sky fills the rest of the frame.

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Rear side view of a World War 2-era German fighter aircraft on display facing to the left in a museum. The plane is covered in a mottled grey camouflage, with bright yellow covering the engine cowling in the nose, as well as the rear, moving part of the tail. Aa large, yellow number "6", outlined in black, is on the side of the fuselage, just behind the cockpit, followed by a large black cross, partially outlined in thick white lines, then in thin black lines. A yellow shield, outlined in black, sits at the rear of the fuselage, just in front of the tail, with an image of a brown bird with a large, hooked, black beak, with a red umbrella tucked under it's wing, in the middle. A black swastika, outlined in white, is at the front of the tail, suggesting that this plane was operating during the Nazi period in Germany. Red floor fills the foreground, with another couple of fighter planes from the same era in the background, with brick wall painted white on the right, and corrugated metal hangar door on the left, behind them.

The forward fuselage and cockpit of a World War 2-era fighter plane, submerged facing to the left in a tank full of water, with rocks laid out as a fish habitat, seen through an underwater glass tunnel. The plane is black, with mottled aquatic growths on the side, and the white letters "FY" on the rear. A single-seat cockpit sits on top of the fuselage, with a rotating, 4 gun turret behind, with the guns facing to the rear. Several fish can be seen swimming past, little more than blurs because of the longer-than-usual exposure time on my phone camera.

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Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner, facing to the right but being pushed back to the left by an almost-out-of-frame yellow tug attached to the nose-wheel by a long white pole. There are black "Air Macau" on the upper fuselage, in English in front of the wing, and in a Chinese script aft of the wings. The black registration "CS-MAH" is on the lower rear fuselage, above the grey belly. The tail is dark blue at the front, and red at the rear, with a stylised flying white bird in the middle. Grey concrete apron squares fill the foreground, with patches of grass delineating taxiways and a runway in the background.

Side view of a 3-engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left at a busy airport. The plane has a white upper fuselage, with a grey lower fuselage, and a thick red, yellow, and green stripe running through the middle, covering the passenger cabin windows. There are black "Ghana Airways" titles on the upper fuselage, just aft of a small Ghanaian flag (equal red, yellow, and green horizontal stripes, with a 5-pointed black star in the middle of the yellow stripe), and the black registration "9G-ANA" on the upper rear. The plane's centre engine is white, with a large black star in the middle, with a wide "V"-shape in the middle of that, with the word "Ghana" running through the centre. The star has red, yellow, and green stripes behind it, resembling pilot's wings. The tail on top of the centre engine, also has red, green, and yellow stripes, with a black star in the yellow section. In the foreground, a section of grey concrete apron has been coned off, with a yellow digger and a yellow truck with a flatbed in the middle of what is obviously a construction site, a couple of workmen in hi-viz vests and a couple of large holes in the ground emphasizing this. In the background, the grey and dark blue nose and forward fuselage of a very large jet airliner can be seen coming into frame from the left, while more planes of a similar type and with the same livery can be seen parked against a grey and yellow terminal building in the distance on the right. A smaller, brown brick building on the left has a couple of white BizJets parked in front. Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

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