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Photo of the Day 25th May 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right.

G-OOOU, Boeing 757-2Y0, Air 2000 but with Kiwi Airlines titles and logos, taxiing to the terminal at Manchester Airport, some time after 5th May 1996.

Bonus Photo of the Day 25th May.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. The plane has large, dark blue "Brit Air" titles on the upper forward fuselage, repeated on the sides of the engine pods. The grey registration "F-GRJF" is on the lower rear fuselage, under the engine pod. There is a circular yellow logo overlaid with a blue vertical arrowhead with 3 blue diamonds at the top on the tail. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a Aline of tall lighting poles with orange and white stripes looming over everything, reaching out of the top of the frame. A blue metal fence splits the background, on the left is a collection of white airport trucks, luggage carts, and mobile airstairs, while a gaggle of white fuel trucks are parked next to a heavily glazed building with blue busses parked outside.

F-GRJF, Canadair CRJ-100ER, Brit Air, at Cologne-Bonn Airport, 4th October 1996.

Bonus Photo of the Day 2 25th May.

Front view of a green and grey, single-engined World War 2-era military jet fighter in a museum, hanging from the ceiling as if it is flying from right to left and slightly downwards. It's upper surfaces are green, with grey lower surfaces, with a yellow number "6" on the forward fuselage just behind the cockpit, and a red arrow pointing forward on the grey nosecone. The engine is mounted on top of the fuselage, above and behind the cockpit. There are twin tailplanes, canted inwards, mounted on the tips of the horizontal stabiliser. Crowds of schoolboys wearing white shirts and mauve blazers are gathered on a balcony behind the plane, one of them is waving at the camera.

120235, Heinkel HE162 Volksjager (People's Fighter, AKA Salamander), Luftwaffe, on display in a flying pose at the Imperial War Museum, London, 6th March 1996.