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Photo of the Day 24th March 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a small, single propellor-engined light aircraft with 3 tail-fins, and olive green and brown camouflage

RG333/G-AIEK, Miles M.38 Messenger 2A, in RAF colours as worn by the personal liason aircraft used Field Marshall Montgomery, taxiing out for a display flight at Manchester Barton during the annual air show, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 24th March 2014.

Side view of a white, 3 engined jet freighter taxinng from right to left. The plane has a grey belly and engine pods slung under the wing, with dark blue "Lufthansa Cargo" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail and centre engine are a dark blue, with a large yellow circle containing a stylised blue flying bird halfway up the tail-fin. The upturned wingtips are white, as are the smaller downturned tip. Green grass fills the foreground, behind rolls of barbed wire on top of a black metal fence. Under the plane in the background, patches of grass separate taxiways and runways. Above, pale blue sky fills the rest of the frame.

D-ALCF, McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, Lufthansa Cargo, taxiing past the Runway Viewing park on it's way to the terminal after landing on Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 24th March 2014.

Bonus Photo of the Day 24th March 2024.

Side view of a black and white, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The planes rear fuselage and tail is black, with fractured white "The Phantom" titles on the side of the body, and a white mask designed to be worn over the upper part of the face and across the bridge of the nose on the tail. The forward fuselage and wing-mounted engine pods are white, with blue "CrossAir" titles on the upper body and on the engine pods The registration "HB-IZK" is on the bottom of the tail in white, next to s small red Swiss flag. Grey concrete apron covered with yellow lines and white dashed lines fills the foreground, with a circular, heavily glazed terminal building in the background. A larger, white jet airliner with red "TunisAir" titles is parked next to this terminal building. Trees in the distance run off towards the horizon, leading to the lower reaches of a tree-covered mountain rising into the sky.

HB-IZK, Saab 2000, CrossAir, wearing a black and white promotional livery for the musical "The Phantom Of The Opera", at Geneva Cointrin, 5th October 2016.

I posted a photo of the tail last week, and someone expressed interest in seeing the whole thing, so here you go.