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Photo of the Day 2nd June 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a 2 seat, single-engined gyrocopter parked in the static display park at an airshow, facing to the left.

K4235/G-AHMJ, Avro 671 Rota I (a license-built Cierva C-30A Rota I), in Royal Air Force colours, on static display at the annual Woodford Air Show, some time in the 1990s.

This aircraft is now in display in a museum in Florida.

On This Day 2nd June 2016.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right along a grey runway. The plane is mostly white, with a pale blue belly, and 2-tone, dark and light blue "FlyBe" titles above some coloured dots on the forward fuselage, with larger "FlyBe" titles on the rear fuselage and tail. There are additional "FlyBe[dot]com" titles on the engine pods mounted under the wings. An expanse of green grass fills the foreground, with green trees stretching across the background, under grim grey skies.

G-FBJH, Embraer ERJ-170-200STD, FlyBe, rolling  for take-off on Runway 05 Left at Manchester Airport, 6th June 2016, as seen from SouthSide.

On This Day 2nd June 2016.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, flying from left to right at a very low altitude, maybe a metre above as runway, with the undercarriage lowered, flaps extended from the rear of the wings, and the nose fairly flat, suggesting it is about to land. Green grass fills the foreground, lining the side of the runway, with more grass in the background, leading up to trees in the background. The rather dilapidated white fuselage of a 3 engined jet airliner is visible in front of the trees, facing to the left. Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

G-FBJH, Embraer ERJ-170-200STD, FlyBe, rolling  for take-off on Runway 05 Left at Manchester Airport, 6th June 2016, as seen from SouthSide.

Manchester Monday 2 2nd June 2025.

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right along a grey runway. The plane is mostly white, with a blue belly, and "British" titles on the lower forward fuselage. The black registration "G-GNTZ" is on the lower rear fuselage, while the tail and rear fuselage is covered in a black, grey, red, and white tartan. In the foreground, a large group of people is gathered around, some looking at this plane but mostly staring in various, different directions, with a black mesh fence between them and the runway. Green grass in the background leads up to trees in the distance, under cloudy white sky.

G-GNTZ, British Aerospace 146-200A, British Airways, lining up on Runway 24 by the Airport Hotel pub at Manchester Airport, some time between April 1998 and April 2000.

Bonus Photo of the Day 2nd June 2025.

Side view of a brown helicopter with skids for undercarriage flying from left to right at a low altitude. There is a silver stripe running along the body, zig-zagging it's way up to the tailboom, where it is overlaid with the silver registration "G-CFLT". Patchy white clouds with hints of blue fill the rest of the frame.

G-CFLT, Aerospatiale AS355F1 Ecureuil II, at Manchester Barton, 28th October 1995.