Side view of a long, thin, twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left as it turns on to a grey runway. The plane is mostly white, with grey "Scandinavian" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with additional "Airlines" titles on the lower forward fuselage. Smaller "Scandinavian" titles are on the sides of the white engine pods, mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, just in front of and below the tail. The blue registration "EC-MLC" is on the lower rear fuselage, just aft of a small Spanish flag, which itself is just aft of a stylised golden crown. On the upper rear fuselage, there is a 9*3 grid of coloured dots, representing the flags of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, the 3 countries for whom SAS is the nominal flag carrier. Slightly yellowing grass fills the foreground, along the side of the runway, while grey hangars are visible over the top of the plane in the background, under blue skies.

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner accelerating from right to left along a black runway. The plane is largely white, with a diagonal red band wrapped around the nose and forward fuselage, and a stylised white flower with a yellow centre on the forward cabin door. There are large, billboard-style "Edelweiss" titles on the upper fuselage, with smaller, red "Switzerland" titles in an italic font just ahead of the wing box, and the black registration "HB-IHY" on the lower rear fuselage, next to a small Swiss flag. The red tail has a larger version of the white and yellow flower logo, repeated in a smaller form on the vertical wingtip fences. Green grass lines the black runway in the foreground, with taxiways and more grass in the background, with grey hangars in the distance on either side of the image, and pale blue sky with smears of grey cloud filling the rest of the frame.

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Side view of a very large, white, 4 engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude, with undercarriage extended and flaps deployed from behind the wing, suggesting it is just about to land. There are large golden "Emirates" titles on the forward fuselage, repeated in a smaller Arabic script over the wings. The web address "www.emirates.com" is on the lower forward fuselage, also in gold. There is a golden logo on each engine pod, made up of the Arabic letters that make up the word that trans-literates as "Etihad", but re-arranged in a decorative pattern. The tail has the flag of the United Arab Emirates (red vertical bar on the right, with green, white, and black horizontal stripes on the left), looking as if it is waving in the breeze. In the foreground, a mass of parked cars, mostly black but with a few scattered reds, and a small blue van in the middle, are packed densely along the bottom of the frame, with a strip of green grass leading up to more parked cars on the far side of the runway, behind a black chainlink fence. Trees beyond that lead up to hills shrouded in mist in the distance, under grey skies.

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Side view of a twin engined BizJet with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left along a grey taxiway. The plane is largely white, with a green stripe starting in the middle of the upper fuselage, running forward along the top of the body, down under the cockpit windows, then back along the lower body, and up into the tail, and the green registration "D-AJOY" on the tail-cone, partially obscured by one of the engines on the rear fuselage. A grey taxiway fills the foreground, with a patch of green grass in the bottom right corner, and more grass in the background, leading up to several jet airliners partially obscured by jelly pouring out of the rear of the planes engines. Flat grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

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Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a low altitude, with undercarriage extended, flaps extended from the rear of the wings, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is white on top of the body and grey on the lower half, with dark blue, almost purple "Brussels Airlines" titles just aft of a stylised red lower-case letter "b" made upe of red dots. The tail and rear fuselage is the same dark blue, with a larger version of the red dot "b" logo on the tail, above the white registration "OO-DWB" on the fuselage. The web address "BrusselsAirlinesDotCom" is on the upper rear fuselage, above the rear cabin windows, with small Belgian and EU flags below those windows. Grey engine pods hang down below the wings. A tall grey tower with a black top reaches into the sky in the middle of the background, with grey-blue sky filling the rest of the frame.

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Elevated side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner parked facing to the left. The plane has a grey upper half, with black "British Airways" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and a dark blue ower half, with a red pin-stripe running along the body, ending in a half arrowhead at the front. The grey registration "G-BTPF" is on the lower rear fuselage, next to the open rear passenger door. The tail is dark blue on the top half, with a grey heraldic crest, and grey at the bottom, with a dark blue and red triangle towards the rear. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a grey metal mesh blast barrier on the bottom left corner, while the background has more apron leading up to a terminal building whit a white airbridge with the Manchester Airport logo hanging off the side. The centre fuselage and engines of a white jet airliner can be seen in the top left corner. A re-fueling truck and a couple of laden baggage trucks can be seen parked in the background.

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