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Photo of the Day 20th February 2025.

mancavgeek

20 Feb 2025 • 1 min read

LY-VEL, Airbus A320-232, Avion Express, but operating for Thomas Cook, starting it's take-off roll on Runway 05 Left at Manchester Airport, 2nd June 2016.

'Throw Thursday 20th September 2025.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left. The plane has blue and red "Air Inter" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and a light blue band wrapping around the rear fuselage and up into the tail, topped by overlapping dark blue and red triangles. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with strips of grass in the background delineating runways and taxiways. In the distance, a couple of grey and dark blue, almost black, jet airliners can be seen on the left of the frame, with a tall concrete wall behind them, and trees beyond that.

F-GPXA, Fokker F100, Air Inter, at London Heathrow, some time after June 1996, as seen from the top of Car Park 2.

Bonus Photo of the Day 20th February 2025.

Low side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude. The undercarriage is retracted, and large flaps are deployed from the rear of the wings. The plane's cockpit is obviously in a different place than normal, being lower than the main fuselage, while the bulbous, extremely wide and tall upper fuselage bulges out significantly wider than the main part of the body at the bottom. Three words adorn the swollen fuselage - "The Super Transporter", in yellow, red, and blue, respectively. A diagonal blue band with a red and orange stripe on the rear edge covers the tail and rear fuselage, with the word "Airbus" overlaid in white. There is a large, blue, number "3"3 facing forwards on the over-sized upper fuselage, above the cockpit. Grey cloudy sky fills the rest of the frame in the background.

F-GSTC, Airbus A300B4-608ST, Airbus Transport International, performing a flyby at the Woodford Air Show, 6th June 1998.