Berlin

Photo of the Day 23rd July 2025.

mancavgeek

23 Jul 2025 • 1 min read

D-AFFL, Fokker 50, Lufthansa Cityline, taxiing past the fire station at Berlin Tegel, 26th September 1996.

Winglet Wednesday 23rd July 2025.

Close-up of the bright orange up-turned wing-tip of a jet airliner taxiing from right to left. In the background, the plane's body is covered in photos, some large, with easily distinguishable faces or locations, others are really small, with just hints of… something… there. Some of these are overlaid with orange text, first the number "20", with the "0" replaced with a ring of stars, obviously based on the stars in the EU flag, followed by various European words for "Years" stacked vertically - "Years", "Annees", "jahre", "anos". Thick orange stripe on the body mark the edges of the area covered by these photos. Green grass can be seen under the rear of the fuselage ion the background, and flat grey sky above completes the picture.

G-EZOX, Airbus A320-214, EasyJet, taxiing past the Runway Visitor Park (RVP) at Manchester Airport on it's way to the terminal after landing on Runway 23 Right, 19th May 2016.

This plane, celebrating EasyJet's 20 years of operation, mostly within the European Union, was photographed a mere 5 weeks before the UK committed one of the gravest acts of national self-harm by collectively voting to leave the EU - something which could well have brought this airline to it's knees, but was avoided by the very expensive step of setting up an EU-based subsidiary in Austria.

Bonus Photo of the Day 23rd July 2025.

Side view of a twin propellor-engined light aircraft taxiing from right to left along a narrow grey tarmac taxiway. The plane is a light sandy-brown, with a red and black stripe running along the body and up into the tail, as well as along the engine cowlings mounted on the wings. The black registration "G-TEST" is overlaid on the stripes on the rear fuselage, with large blue text "SFC" and black text "Air taxis LTD" over the stripe on the tail. Green grass fills the foreground, with a line of trees in the background, in front of a house with a grey roof. Grey skies over trees in the distance fill the rest of the frame.

G-TEST, Piper PA-34-200 Seneca taxiing out to the runway before the annual North Weald Fighter Meet, 14th May 1994.