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Photo of the Day 10th February 2025.

mancavgeek

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Front view of a very pointy, long, and thin white, 4 engined jet airliner with slightly down-turned wings

G-BOAE, British Aircraft Corporation Concorde 102, British Airways, turning in to gate 43 at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

Manchester Monday 10th February 2025.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the side of the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. There are a number of coloured near-vertical bars - blue, yellow, red, and black - on the lower forward fuselage, starting under the passenger cabin windows and looping under the belly, as well as squares on the engine pods - red with a white cross, red with a black cross inside a white cross, and blue with a yellow cross, each representing the countries Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. There are black "Scandinavian" titles on the upper forward fuselage and a black "SAS" logo on the tail. Grey concrete fuselage fills the foreground, with another white, twin engined jet airliner with a blue belly and tail in the immediate background, facing more or less away from the camera. Beyond that, a white, twin propellor-engined airliner with a blue belly and a yellow stripe running along the body is parked facing to the left in front of a large grey hangar, the hangars doors dwarfing this latter plane.

SE-DIF, McDonnell Douglas MD-87, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, taxiing to the terminal at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

The HS.748 parked in front of the hangar in the background dates this to somewhere in the region of 1992-1994 - this particular Budgie was regularly seen in different parts of the airport, in a couple of different liveries and wearing several different registrations for at least 3 years before it finally left for Canada.

Manchester Monday 2 10th February 2025.

Slightly grainy side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude, with it's undercarriage lowered, and flaps deployed from the rear of the wing, suggesting it is just about to land. There is a yellow and red stripe coming from under the belly, along the fuselage, and up to fill the tail, which has a logo which resembles 3 electrons (red, dark blue, light blue) in different orbital inclinations spinning around a common centre. There are red "Futura" titles on the upper forward fuselage, just ahead of a smaller version of this same logo. Leaden grey skies with slashes of blue fill the rest of the frame.

EC-GOB, Boeing 737-4Y0, Futura, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, as seen from the Airport Hotel pub, some time between April 1997 and December 1998.