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Photo of the Day 2nd May 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a black, single engined military jet fighter taxiing from left to right along a grey runway.

G-GONE, De Haviland DH.112 Venom FB1, in vaguely Royal navy colours, taxiing along the runway after performing a display flight at Woodford Air Show, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 2nd May 2014.

Side view of a very large, white, 4-engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with undercarriage lowered and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is mostly white, with large golden "Emirates" titles in English on the upper forward fuselage, just in front of smaller titles in an Arabic script. There are smaller, black, "Expo2020" titles slightly forward of the main logo, below the blue outline of a flower and above "blue "Dubai UAE" titles. The 4 white engine pods under the wings hacve large golden logos that are essentially a re-arranged version of the Arabic version of the "Emirates" titles. The planes tail is covered in a large, seemingly waving United Arab Emirates flag (a vertical red bar, with green, white, and black horizontal stripes). Trees and bushes in the distance line the bottom of the frame, under hazy grey skies.

A6-EEU, Airbus A380-861, Emirates, on final approach to Runway 05 Left at Manchester Airport, as seen from the Runway Viewing Park 2nd May 2014.

Frankfurt Friday 2nd May 2025.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with large red "CSA" titles on the sides of the forward fuselage, with white "Czechslovak Airlines" text just below on a thin blue stripe running along the body. A pair of red triangles separated by a blue triangle adorn the leading edge of the tail, with red piping underneath. The engine pods on the rear fuselage are grey, with the registration "OK-EFK" in black. A white building with a flat, sandy brown roof and blue roller doors stretches across most of the frame from the right, with the tails of other jet airliners next to a brown building in the distance.

OK-EFK, Tupolev TU-134A, CSA CzechSlovak Airlines, at Frankfurt Airport, either 1993 or 1996.