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Manchester

Manchester Monday 1st September 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right.

B-18721, Boeing 747-409F, China Airlines Cargo, taxiing to the cargo ramp at Manchester Airport, 21st January 2006, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

I'm really proud of the way this photo came out, especially with the fact that it took me well over an hour to get rid of the lighting pole that was ruining the shot.

What lighting pole, I hear you ask.

Lets see if you can spot it - there is a weird artifact that gives it away if you know to look.

Side view of a twin engined light aircraft flying from left to right, highly banked to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a thin red stripe running along the body, overlaid with the black registration "G-AKKB" on the rear fuselage. There are red "Total" logo's on each wing, with diagonal blue, red, and orange stripes running through, and smaller red "Air Total" titles on both the inside and outside faces of the twin tails. Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

G-AKKB, Miles M.65 Gemini 1A, putting on a spirited flying display at one of the annual Barton Air Shows in the 1990s.

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner parked facing to the right. The plane has a white nose cone, with the rest covered in a yellowy-green primer. Brown grass with green patches fill the foreground, with rolling hills filled with fields, trees, and houses in the background.

A British Aerospace Advanced Turbo prop (ATP) undergoing testing on the airfield before painting at the BAE plant at Woodford, just outside of Manchester, some time in the 1990s.