Manchester

Photo of the Day 14th October 2025.

mancavgeek

14 Oct 2025 • 1 min read

G-VLIP, Boeing 747-443, Virgin Atlantic, soaring into the sky as it departs from Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 26th January 2018.

Tails Tuesday 14th October 2025.

Close-up of the tail and rear fuselage of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the right. The plane is largely white, with a thick dark blue diagonal band around the tail and rear fuselage, followed by thinner red, orange, and yellow bands. There are large, white, "A320" titles on the blue band. Part of the registration "F-W" is visible between the wing and the grey winglet on the right of the frame. Grass fills the bottom of the frame, with a temporary metal fence surrounding it, and a couple of people looking up at the plane, with temporary buildings behind them. Blue sky with fluffs of white fill the rest of the frame.

F-WWFT, Airbus A320-111, the original A320 prototype, in Airbus' in-house livery, in the static display park at Farnborough Air Show, 10th September 1994.

Bonus Photo of the Day 14th October 2025.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and dark blue "KLM CityHopper" titles on the lower forward fuselage, with a stylised crown over the "KLM" part. The tail and rear fuselage are dark blue, with diagonal white "CityHopper" titles on the tail. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with grass in the background leading up to trees in the distance. The tail of another, smaller, CityHopper plane can be seen over the forward fuselage of this one, with another plane beyond that with the word "Friendship" on the white tail. Fluffy grey and white clouds fill the rest of the frame.

PH-KVA, Fokker F50, KLM CityHopper, in the visitors park at Fairford International Air Tattoo, 24th July 1993, with a CityHopper SF340 and a Fokker F27 of the F27 Friendship Association in the background.