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Photo of the Day 3rd August 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right.

F-HEPD, Airbus A320-214, Air France, taxiing out to Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 4th February 2016, as seen from the Runway Visitor Park.

Bonus Photo of the Day 3rd August 2025.

Somewhat backlit side view of a 4 engined, delta winged, military jet bomber aircraft parked facing to the right. The plane is covered in a grey and olive green camouflage scheme, with a blue and red roundel on the forward fuselage, under the large cockpit blister. The large air inlets in he wing root have big red baffles mounted inside, The black number 391 is on the tail, over a blue and red fin flash. A dirt field fills the foreground, with grass visible in the background under the plane. A grey building is on the left of the frame, behind the plane's wing. Bright but hazy sky fills the rest of the frame.

XL391, Avro Vulcan B.2, in Royal Air Force colours, at the entrance to Blackpool Squires Gate Airport, 30th April 1993.

This was flown to Blackpool when it retired from RAF service, ostensibly to be to be used as a tourist attraction by a local man.

In reality, he left it to rot, and it was broken up for scrap in January 2006.

Bonus Photo of the Day 2 3rd August 2025.

Heavily backlit side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is almost entirely white, except for the black and red stripe running along the bottom of the fuselage, overlaid with black "Horizon" titles under the wings, and the partial black circle over a black brush stroke on the tail. A grey taxiway fills the foreground, extending off into the distance in the background on the right of the frame, with grass in the background on the left. Trees in the distance meet the orange sky, with purple-grey clouds, and a bright spot in the top left corner that is the sun which looks as if it will soon be setting.

N830PH, De Haviland Canada Dash 8-102A, Horizon Air, at Farnborough Air Show, 10th September 1994.