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Photo of the Day 15th March 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a surprisingly sleek, sandy brown, 4 engined jet bomber aircraft, parked facing to the right.

XL164, Handley-Page HP-80 Victor K2, Royal Air Force, on static display at Woodford Air Show, some time in the 1990s.

A lot of people, mostly Americans, seem to think this is an obscure, secretive Russian prototype, even though it served with the RAF for decades.

On This Day 15th March 1992.

Side view of a yellow, single engined light aircraft flying from left to right at a low altitude, with flaps extended behind the wing. Probably about to land. There is a black stripe running along the body, ending in a zig-zag shape at the front. The registration "G-BTJJ" is on the rear fuselage, also in black. The plane's pilot can be seen through the bubble canopy, just over the wing. Cloudy sky with patches of white fills the rest of the frame.

G-BTJJ, Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, 15th March 1992.

On This Day 15th March 2017.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner moving from right to left. The plane has a purple belly and yellow rear fuselage and tail, with a stylised purple crown resembling a letter "M" and "Monarch[dot]co[dot]uk" titles on the forward fuselage, This purple crown logo is repeated on the tail. The engine pods slung under the wings are also purple, while the up-turned wingtips are yellow, with a smaller purple crown. Green grass fills the foreground, with more grass and taxiways leading up to a large terminal building which stretches across the frame, under grey skies.

G-ZBAD, Airbus A321-231, Monarch Airlines, accelerating along Runway 23L Left at Manchester Airport, 15th March 2017.

Gat On A Sat 15th March 2025.

View from underneath of a white, twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right almost directly overhead at a very low altitude, with undercarriage tucked away and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it has just taken off. There are large, billboard-style letters "TAP" in dark green, light green, and red, respectively, on the forward fuselage, a design replicated at least in part on the tail. The registration "CS-TNM" is on the lower rear fuselage and under the left wing in black. Behind it, the sky is a mix of pale blue, and fluffy white.

CS-TNM, Airbus A320-214, TAP Air Portugal, crossing the perimeter fence seconds after taking off from Runway 08 Right at London Gatwick, 12th September 2014.