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Photo of the Day 23rd April 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a white and red, single propellor-engined military training aircraft moving from left to right along a runway.

ZF409, Shorts Tucano T.1 (a license-built version of the Embraer EMB-312 Tucano), Royal Air Force, at the annual Woodford Air Show, 25th June 1994.

On This Day 23rd April 2015.

Side view of a white and grey, high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner leaping in to the air as it takes off, flying from right to left with the undercarriage lowered, flaps extended from the rear of the wings, and the nose raised sharply. The plane has a white upper surface and grey belly, with blue "Brussels Airlines" titles on the lower forward fuselage, next to a lower-case letter "b" made up of a series of different-sized red dots. The same logo appears in a larger form on the dark blue tail. A large, grey building dominates the background, with a smaller brown building and a red and white checked barrier in front. Grey-blue sky fills the rest of the frame.

OO-DWG, British Aerospace Avro RJ100, Brussels Airlines, seconds after taking off from Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 23rd April 2015, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

This plane was built just a few miles from here, at Woodford.

Bonus Photo of the Day 23rd April 2025.

Side view of a red and white, 3 engined jet airliner being towed from right to left by a low-slung, red tug attached to the nose-wheel by a along yellow pole. The plane has red upper surfaces with a metallic grey belly, with a thick white stripe running along the body covering the cockpit and passenger cabin windows. There are small, red, "LTU" titles on the upper forward fuselage, between the rear of the cockpit and the forward door. The red tail has large white "LTU" titles in the middle, with a small German flag at the top. The under-wing engine pods are a bare metal, with small, red "LTU" titles and black "TriStar" text next to the intake. The centre engine intake in front of the tail is white, with black "TriStar" text, Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with green grass and black taxiways and a runway vanishing into mist in the background.

D-AERP, Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar, LTU, at Dusseldorf Airport, either 1993 or 1996.