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Photo of the Day 3rd June 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude

G-VLIP, Boeing 747-443, Virgin Atlantic, named "Hot Lips", powering out of Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, as seen from one of the South Side mounds, 26th January 2018.

Tails Tuesday 3rd June 2025.

Side view of the rear fuselage and tail of a 4 engined jet airliner moving from right to left at a high speed. The plane is mostly white, with a thick red stripe running along the body, sweeping up into the tail and around the lower rear fuselage. There is a stylised white flying bird on the tail, above white "Airbus A340" titles, and the white registration "4R-ADC" on the lower rear fuselage. In the background, a grey terminal building stretches across the frame, with bright yellow airbridges attached to a very large, grey and dark blue jet airliner, with the tail of a similar plane coming in to view on the left of the frame.

4R-ADC, Airbus A340-311, Air Lanka, rolling along Runway 28 Left for take-off at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

Tails Tuesday 2 3rd June 2025.

Close-up of the tail and rear fuselage of an airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a thin blue and yellow stripe running along the body, with blue "Brit Air" titles on the rear fuselage, and yellow and blue diagonal stripes on the tail. There is another white plane parked behind, with cloudy white sky filling the rest of the frame.

F-GKNH, ATR42-300, Brit Air, at Lyon Satolas, 7th October 1996.

Tails Tuesday 3 3rd June 2025.

Close-up of the tail and rear fuselage of an airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a thin blue and yellow stripe running along the body, with blue "Brit Air" titles on the rear fuselage, and yellow and blue diagonal stripes on the tail. There is another white plane parked behind, with cloudy white sky filling the rest of the frame.

G-AIDL, De Haviland DH.89A Dragon Rapide 6, Caernarfon Air World/Air Caernarfon, at Manchester Barton, 26th May 1996.

Tails Tuesday 4 3rd June 2025.

Close-up of the white tail and rear fuselage of a jet airliner parked facing to the left. Small blue squares at the front of the tail slowly grow bigger as they move rearwards, until they fill the whole of the tail. The blue registration "YL-BAL" on the rear fuselage, next to a Lithuanian flag. Grey concrete apron in the background leads off into the distance, with mountains beyond.

YL-BAL, British Aerospace Avro RJ70, Air Baltic, at Geneva Cointrin, 5th October 1996.