Photo Of The Day 26th August 2026.

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On: August 26, 2026

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Side view of a small, red, single-seat bi-plane flying from right to left at a very low altitude, just a couple of metres above the ground, quite possibly in the middle of taking off. The plane is almost entirely red, with a pair of white stripes running along the body, looping in from above and under the engine cowling in the nose, overlaid with the white registration "G-HOON" on the side of the rear fuselage. A similar design, minus the registration, is on the spats covering the main landing gear at the front of the plane. The front half of the tail is the same bright red, with white text "Pitts S-1S" at the top, while the rear is covered in a red and white chequerboard pattern. The wings are red, with similar but thicker white lines running from front to back, and along the width. Green grass fill the rest of the frame, blurred into a smear, with the plane casting a strong shadow on the airfield below it, suggesting the sun is fairly low down on the left of the frame.

Front-side view of a World War 2-era, twin propellor-engined airliner, parked facing to the right on squares of grey concrete apron. The plane is a very pale blue, with dark blue "Star Airways Inc" titles on the upper fuselage, above the square passenger cabin windows. A mid-blue diagonal band is wrapped around the forward fuselage between the cockpit and the cabin, with a second band wrapped around the rear fuselage, just in front of the tail, the latter partially overlaid with the black registration "N3455". The tail is the same pale blue, with gold "Star" text, with the gold outline of a 4-pointed star behind the initial "S", and the dark blue text "Group PLC" immediately below. The dark blue name "Ian Drury" is visible on the nose, under the cockpit windows. The engine pods on the front of the wings are the same pale blue, with a mid-blue band wrapped around the cowling. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with grass in the background, rising up slightly on the left of the frame, with trees and bushes on top. Blue-grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner being towed from left to right along a rather damp, black taxiway. The plane is mostly white, with a thin green and grey pinstripe running along the body, below the passenger cabin windows, and black text "Business Air" in an Art Deco style font on the upper forward fuselage. The black registration "G-GNTC" is on the side of the rear fuselage. The tail is dark blue, with a diagonal white stripe through the centre, and a stylised, reversed lower-case letter with a white and blue drop shadow inside the bottom section, and a dark blue and green drop-shadow on the top. A white tug is pulling it from left to right along a taxiway, crossing over a couple of other taxiways, with patches of grass in the foreground delineating their edges. A white hangar in the background on the left has it's door slightly ajar, with more cream buildings on the left of the background, under with several cream-coloured buildings in the background on the left, under flat grey sky. bright but hazy sky.

On This Day 26th August 1995.

Rear view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner, parked facing to the left and slightly away from the camera, on grey concrete apron. The plane is mostly a very bright white, with a red stripe running along the body, covering the passenger cabin windows. There are red "Qatar" titles on the upper forward fuselage, between the two passenger decks, a small white and red Qatari flag on the upper rear fuselage, and the black registration "A7-ABK" on the side of the lower rear fuselage. The tail is red, with the white outline of a circle with the white head of an animal with two horns sticking up and out of the back of it's head. There is a blue set of mobile airstairs parked against the open forward cabin door, and a white tug hooked up to the nose-wheel. Three large, pale blue fuel tanks sit in the background, with a large, yellow metal framework sitting in front of the one on the right, and brown and grey buildings filling the rest of the frame behind them.

Winglet Wednesday 26th August 2026.

Close-up of the wing and centre fuselage of a twin engined jet airliner parked on a grey concrete runway facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a wide, diagonal orange band running from the top of the fuselage ahead of the wing, to the belly just aft of the wing, getting narrower as it moves rearwards.# The white word "Jet" can be seen at the top left of the stripe. Another wide, diagonal orange stripe starts on the lower rear fuselage reaching towards the tail. Above and between the two orange stripes is the very large, grey word "Neo", with the last letter resembling the front of a jet engine, showing off the fan blades. The engines, mounted under and slightly forward of the wing, are the same bright orange, as are the flap track covers under the rear of the wing, and the large, up-turned wingtips. In the foreground, lush green grass lines both sides of the runway, as well as a taxiway visible under the body. Above the plane, blue sky with hints of grey cloud fill the rest of the frame.

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