Manchester

Photo of the Day 23rd August 2025.

mancavgeek

23 Aug 2025 • 1 min read

EI-FMJ, ATR72-600, in FlyBe livery but operated by Stobart Air, lining up on Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 5th July 2018, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

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Low view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right almost directly overhead at a very low altitude. The undercarriage has already been tucked away, and flaps are deployed from the rear of the wings, with the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is almost entirely white, with black inverted "Virgin Atlantic" titles on the wingbox under the middle of the fuselage. The tail and the engine pods under the wings are a bright red. The black registration "G-VRAY" is visible on the lower rear fuselage, as well as under the outer section of the left wing. Blue sky fills the rest of the frame.

G-VRAY, Airbus A330-343, Virgin Atlantic, clearing the perimeter after taking off from Runway 08 Right London Gatwick, 12th September 2014.

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Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue belly, and dark blue "British Airways" on the upper forward fuselage, between the 2 passenger decks, under a red and blue twisted ribbon on the upper deck, just aft of the cockpit. A series of white stylised flying birds on the tail are separated by red, blue, and yellow blobs resembling clouds. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with strips of grass stretching across the frame, and white and red airport vehicles and mobile airstairs parked in various places. Grey and dark blue airliners are parked against a grey terminal building in the background, Trees on rolling hills in the distance slowly vanish into bright but hazy sky.

G-CIVU, Boeing 747-436, British Airways, in their "Wings" colours, at London Gatwick, some time in the late 1990s.