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Photo of the Day 26th August 2025.

mancavgeek

26 Aug 2025 • 1 min read

2-Sale, Diamond DA-62, Sale Sharks¹, at Blackpool Squires Gate, 21st August 2025.

¹Sale Sharks are a Rugby union team from South Manchester - both Manchester Airport and Barton are just a few minutes drive away, but this appears to be based here…

On This Day 26th August 1995.

Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a maroon stripe running along the body, covering the lower deck windows, and maroon "Qatar Airways" titles on the forward fuselage, in an Arabic script between the upper and lower deck windows, and in English below the lower deck windows. The tail is also maroon, with the white head of a horned, goat-like animal inside the outline of a white circle. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a large grey hangar in the background on the left, several pale blue fuel tanks towards the middle, and a selection of other airport buildings on the right. Trees in the distance slowly vanish into a bright but hazy sky.

A7-ABK, Boeing 747SR-81, Qatar Airways, taxiing to the terminal at Manchester Airport, 26th August 1995.

Tails Tuesday 26th August 2025.

Close-up of the rear fuselage and tail of a twin engined jet airliner facing to the right, with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. The plane is mostly white, with the rear fuselage being black, separated from the white section by a thick red diagonal band around the body, as well as 4 thinner grey bands. The tail and engine pods are also black. There are large white letters "EAL" on the tail, and the white registration "G-AZMF" on the sides of the engine pods. Several lengths of barbed wire, supported on concrete poles, stretch across the bottom of the frame in the foreground, with yellowy-brown brush and bushes on a slight incline in the background on the left. Green fields outlined by bushes and trees in the distance on the right slowly vanish into hazy grey sky.

G-AZMF, British Aircraft Corporation 1-11-530FX, European Aviation, at Luton Airport, some time in the late 1990s.

Tails Tuesday 2 26th August 2025.

Vertically-oriented close-up of the tail of a 3 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a yellowy-gold stripe running along the body, covering the passenger cabin windows, getting wider as it sweeps up into the tail. The front edge of the tail, and the intake for the centre engine at it's base, are white, with black text "TriStar" and the red number "500" on the engine intake. A white circle on the tail with red text "BWIA" in the middle, with 2 halves of a stylised steel drum, in the same yellowy-gold on top and in aquamarine below. The black registration "9Y-TGN" is at the top of the tail. Wide strips of grass line taxiways and a runway in the background, with the grey and dark blue tail of another jet airliner in the distance in the top left corner, with a brown building stretching across the frame from the right.

9Y-TGN, Lockheed L-1011-500 TriStar, BWIA British West Indian Airlines, at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.