Manchester

Photo of the Day 21st April 2025.

mancavgeek

21 Apr 2025 • 1 min read

G-BVVL, EAA Acro Sport II, at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 21st April 2016.

Side view of a white and red, twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right on a black runway. The plane is mostly white, whit large red "Malta" titles on the forward fuselage, partially covering the forward cabin windows, with smaller red "The airline of the Maltese Islands" text above the mid-cabin windows. The rear fuselage and tail is mostly red, with green, orange, blue, and yellow geometric shapes scattered seemingly at random, some partially overlaid with a darker, patterned design. A large, white, Maltese Cross (four arrowheads meeting at a point)fills the centre of the tail. The engine pods under the wings are red, with white "AirMalta[dot]com" text. Large areas of grass fill the foreground and the space immediately behind the runway, with trees in the distance stretching off to the horizon. The rear fuselage and tail of a blue and white twin engined jet airliner are poking in to frame on the right on the distant, parallel runway.

9H-AEM, Airbus A319-112, Air Malta, taxiing off Runway 05 Right after landing at Manchester Airport, 21st April 2016, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

Manchester Monday 21st April 2025.

Side view of a white and blue, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, facing to the right but being pushed back to the left by a low-slung white and blue tug attached to the nose-wheel by a long blue pole. The plane is mostly white, with a blue belly, and blue "British Airways" titles on the lower forward fuselage, just aft of the forward door and below the passenger cabin windows. There is an image of a 2-sided, twisted red and blue ribbon on the upper forward fuselage, above the forward door. There are black "United Kingdom" titles on the upper rear fuselage, and the registration "G-EMBN" on the side of the engine pod. There are wavy red and blue lines on the tail. A man wearing a hi-viz jacket and a pair of rear ear defenders is walking alongside the plane as it is pushed back. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with more in the background, leading up to grass and taxiways in the distance, with trees and the dish of a radio-telescope right at the back, slowly being swallowed up in hazy sky. The dark blue tail of aa larger jet airliner is poking into the frame from the right, with a smaller, white, twin propellor-engined airliner in the middle of the frame.

G-EMBN, Embraer ERJ-145EU, British Airways, being pushed back from it's stand at Manchester Airport, 2000.

The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is visible on the skyline, slowly being swallowed up in hazy sky.