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Photo of the Day 20th April 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner moving at high speed from left to right on a black runway.

HB-IHY, Airbus A320-214, Edelweiss Air, rolling for take-off on Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 26th January 2018, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

Bonus Photo of the Day 20th April 2025.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with an orange, red, and blue stripe running along the body, slowly getting wider as it goes along, eventually sweeping up into the lower reaches of the tail, as well as running along the engine pods. There are black "Fly By Light Control Technology" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with the word "Light" in red. The registration "G-ASYD" is on the upper rear fuselage, in black. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with large areas of green grass and a black runway in the background, leading up to a river in the distance, with an industrial landscape in the distance, under grey skies.

G-ASYD, British Aircraft Corporation 1-11-400AM, British Aerospace, used as a "Fly By Light" technology demonstrator, on the ramp at Liverpool Speke Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

Bonus Photo of the Day 2 20th April 2025.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly and brown and black stripe running along the body and the lower part of the engine pods. There are red "SwissAir" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and black registration "HB-IVC" on the rear fuselage. There are also small "Fokker 100" titles on the forward part of the engine pods. The tail is red, with a large white cross in the middle. A large expanse of concrete apron fills the foreground, with green grass and a runway in the distance leading up to a crop field in the distance. Right in the background is a very distinctive white building, with a black glazed circle in the middle of a square block.

HB-IVC, Fokker 100, SwissAir, at Geneva Cointrin, 29th October 1993.

One of the main CERN buildings is visible in the distance - this isn't particularly noticeable  when you are there, but it dominates photos of this airport.