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Photo of the Day 31st July 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a twin engined, white and blue, jet airliner taxiing from right to left along a grey concrete taxiway

TF-ISR, Boeing 757-256, IcelandAir, lining up on Runway 23 left at Manchester Airport, 15th May 2019, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

'Throw Thursday 31st July 2025.

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane has a white upper fuselage, with a grey belly, a brown and black stripe running the length of the body separating the 2 colours. There are red "SwissAir" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the white registration "HB-IWB" on the black part of the stripe on the rear fuselage. The tail and centre engine are red, with a large white cross in the middle of the tail. The other engines, mounted under the wings, are white. The white up-turned wingtips have black "MD11" text. Grey concrete taxiways and yellowing grass fill the foreground, with more grass leading up to a pair of large hangars in the distance, one red, the other blue, with several BizJets parked outside. Hazy grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

HB-IWB, McDonnell Douglas MD-11, SwissAir, taxiing past the terraces on top of The Queens Building at London Heathrow, 29th February 1992.

'Throw Thursday 2 31st July 2025.

Slightly grainy shot of a very colourful, very large 4 engined jet airliner being towed from right to left by a low-slung grey tug attached to the nose-wheel by a long pole. The plane is covered in seemingly random patches of colour, but closer examination reveals that most of these are stick figures with arms raised in a celebratory pose, with more colours defining the negative space between them. The tail is mostly dark blue, with white "South African Airways" tiles along the leading edge. Green grass lines several taxiways in the foreground, with a wide, sandy brown building in the background. Trees and tall residential buildings in the distance are slowly vanishing into the hazy grey sky.

ZS-SAJ, Boeing 747-312, South African Airways, in the special Ndizani colour scheme, at London Heathrow, some time in the late 1990s.