Manchester

Photo of the Day 29th July 2025.

mancavgeek

29 Jul 2025 • 1 min read

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner moving at speed from right to left as it turns off the runway.

HZ-A5, Airbus A318-112 ACJ Elite, Alpha Star, turning off Runway 23 Right with thrust reversers still deployed at Manchester Airport, 9th April 2015, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

On This Day 29th July 2000.

Rear side view of a twin propellor-engined BizProp with the engines mounted pointing backwards of the rear of the wings. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and a red stripe running along the body from the nose, before sweeping up into the rear of the tail. The black registration "I-FXRB" is on the lower part of the tail, with a yellow shield in the middle, containing an image of a prancing black horse, with a thin red and green band at the top of the shield. There are red covers on engine exhaust outlets, with red ribbons attached to several parts of the rear of the wings and on the fuselage. The bottom half of the cabin door is hanging open, forming a set of stairs, while the upper half is closed. There is a small aerodynamic lifting surface on the nose-cone. Black tarmac taxiway fills the foreground, with grass in front of a white temporary building in the background on the right, with the forward fuselages of several BizJets in the background on the left. Pale blue sky with large fluffs of white cloud fill the rest of the frame.

I-FXRB, Piaggio P-180 Avanti, Ferrari Fox Air, on static display at Farnborough Air Show, 29th July 2000.

On This Day 29th July 2024.

Side view of a World War 2-era, single-engined military trainer aircraft taxiing from left to right on grass. The plane is covered in a dark brown and orange brown camouflage scheme, with a pale blue belly. There is a yellow, blue, white, and red roundel on the rear fuselage, and a large blue, white, and red fin flash on the tail. The black military serial "AJ841" is on the lower rear fuselage, while the civil registration "G-BJST" is further aft, under the horizontal stabiliser. There is an image of a grey and white cartoon rabbit, obviously based on Bugs Bunny, flying a massively under-sized version of this plane, under the front of the cockpit, with the words "Wacky Wabbit" over the top. The front part of the cockpit canopy is slid back, revealing the pilot sitting in the front seat, wearing a green shirt with a union flag on the top of the sleeve, wearing a black leather flying helmet. Short-mown lush green grass fills the foreground, with longer grass visible under the plane in the background, with trees in the distance under blue sky with lumps of white cloud.

AJ841/G-BJST, North American T-6HHarvard Mk IV (license-built by CCF, Canadian Car Foundry), in Royal Air Force desert camouflage, taxiing in after landing at Manchester Barton, 29th July 2024.