Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with undercarriage extended, flaps deployed from the front and rear of the wings, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with large purple "Virgin Atlantic" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and an image of a flying woman wearing a red leotard and a cape made out of a British flag under the cockpit windows. The tail and rear fuselage is a vibrant red, with white, hand-written "Virgin" titles. The engine pods mounted under the wings are the same red, as are the planes up-turned wing-tips. Green grass fills the foreground, while a grey terminal building stretches across the background, with a tall grey tower with black top floors soars into the grey sky on the left.

On This Day 2nd June 2016.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner moving from left to right along a runway. The plane is largely white, with a light blue belly, and light and dark blue "FlyBe" titles on the sides of the forward fuselage, over 6 coloured dots - 2 yellow, 2, red, and 2 purple. This logo is repeated on the sides of the white engine pods under the wings, with additional light blue "[dot]com" at the end. The black registration "G-FBEF" is on the upper rear fuselage, with light and dark blue "FlyBe" titles on the tail and rear fuselage. Green grass fills the foreground, with bushes poking into frame right at the bottom. In the background, a near identical plane with the registration "G-FBJH" on the upper rear fuselage is taxiing to the left, partially hidden behind this plane, with trees beyond that, under grey sky.
G-FBEF, Embraer ERJ-190-200LR, FlyBe, rolling for take-off on Runway 05 Left at Manchester Airport, with G-FBJH, ERJ-170-200LR, FlyBe, behind it taxiing out to the runway, 2nd June 2016, as seen from one of my favourite spots, between the runways.

Tails Tuesday 2nd June 2026.

A line-up of the rear fuselage and tails of three different types of airliners parked against a terminal building. In the foreground, on the left, is a twin engined jet airliner, with a white upper fuselage and red belly, with thick red and white stripes along the middle, with red "Boeing 767" titles on the white stripe on the rear fuselage. The tail is red, with white "LTU" titles in the middle. In the middle of the frame is a 3 engined jet airliner with a red top half and grey lower half, with a thick white stripe covering the passenger cabin windows, and a thinner red stripe between the 2 colours. The white registration "D-AERL" is on the upper rear fuselage, under the white central engine intake mounted on the top of the fuselage before the tail. That intake has the black text "TriStar 500" right in l middle, while the red tail behind it has large, white "LTU" titles in the centre, with a small German flag right at the top, and the engine exhausting from the rear of the fuselage. Behind that is another, different type of 3 engined jet airliner, this time with the engine running straight through the base of the tail rather than into and through the rear fuselage. Again, the top of the fuselage is red, with a grey lower half, and a thick white and thin red stripe along the middle. The front of the central engine intake is white, with the black text "TriJet" at the front, the rest being the same red as the tail, which also has white "LTU" titles in the middle, with a small German flag at the top. Green concrete apron fills most of the right of the frame, while blue airbridges stretch into frame from the left, attaching themselves to the two rearmost airliners. Trees in the distance meet hazy grey cloud.Slightly elevated view of the rear fuselage and tail of a twin engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. The plane is almost entirely white, with a small EU flag on the sides of the engine pods, and a dark blue, white, and red ribbon twirling from the bottom left corner of the tail to the top right, with dark blue "Air Liberte" running through the middle, with red accent marks. Grey concrete squares of apron fills the entire background.Close-up of the red rear fuselage and tail of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right, with flaps and spoilers deployed from the rear of the wings, suggesting it has just landed. The white registration "9H-MFS" is on the upper rear fuselage, just forward of the rear cabin door. Green grass lines a taxiway and a runway at the bottom of the frame, with trees and a hazy cityscape in the middle, under hazy grey sky.

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