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Manchester Monday 25th August 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner moving from right to left at high speed

D-ABOK, Boeing 757-330, Condor, rotating off Runway 05 Left at Manchester Airport, 18th July 2014, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

Manchester Monday 2 25th August 2025.

Side view of a light helicopter hovering 3 or 4 metres above a grass airfield. The 'copter has a wide black stripe running along the body, narrowing slightly as it moves to the rear of the tail boom, outlined in white, with the upper and lower surfaces being an orange-brown. The white registration "G-OITV" is on the tailboom, next to a small "Enstrom" logo. Green grass fills the bottom of the frame, with trees in the distance, while grey sky fills the top.

G-OITV, Enstrom F280C, coming in to land at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.

Manchester Monday 3 25th August 2025.

Side view of a twin propellor-engined, World War 2-era fighter-bomber accelerating from right to left along a grey tarmac runway, with it's tail wheel raised off the ground, suggesting it is taking off. The plane has a grey and olive green camouflage scheme on the upper body and upper wing surfaces, with grey belly and undersides of the wings. There are 3 white and 2 black bands under the lower rear fuselage. The pale mint green letters "E-HT" are either side of a blue, white, and red roundel, outlined in yellow, on the rear fuselage, with the black serial "RR299" just after, under a red, white, and blue fin-flash on the tail. Green grass fills the foreground, with trees on small hills in the background.

RR299/G-ASKH, De Haviland DH.98 Mosquito T.III, owned by Rolls Royce but operated in Royal Air Force colours, some time in the early 1990s.