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Photo of the Day 5th February 2025.

mancavgeek

05 Feb 2025 • 1 min read

Side view of a white, high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right.

G-ECOH, De Haviland Canada DHC-8-402Q Dash 8, Brussels Airlines, operated by FlyBe, turning off Runway 23 Right by the Runway Viewing Park at Manchester Airport, 29th March 2014.

On This Day 5th February 1996.

Side view of a twin engined, military fighter jet aircraft parked on grass facing to the left. The plane is mostly covered in a grey-blue and olive green camouflage scheme, with a pale blue belly. There is a large blue, white, and red roundel on the nose, just aft of the black radome, the serial "XA564"in black on the engine inlet under the two cockpit canopies, and a large red, white, and blue fin flash on the front of the tail. Green grass fills the foreground, with a large building in shades of light green and light brown stretching across the frame, a large white banner with "The Aerospace Museum" titles on the side of the building in the middle of the frame.

XA564, Gloster Javelin FAW1, Royal Air Force, on external display at Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, 5th February 1996.

Winglet Wednesday 5th February 2025.

Close-up of the inside face of the left upturned wingtip of a white BizProp parked facing to the right. There are 5 blue stripes running from front to back, pale blue and thin at the top, getting darker and thinner as they get lower, the lowest one being almost black. The heads of people walking around in the background can be seen at the bottom of the frame. A couple of out-of-focus planes can be seen in the distance, with trees behind them stretching across the lower part of the frame, the rest being filled with streaks of pale blue sky and clouds.

N8149S, Beech B2000 Starship, on static display at Farnborough Air Show, 10th September 1994.

Bonus Photo Of The Day 5th February 1996.

Side view of a white and black, twin propellor-0engined airliner taxiing from left to right through a busy airport scene. The plane has a white forward fuselage with a black belly, and white engine pods on the wings with blue "Crossair" titles in front of the wings. The rear fuselage is black, with large white "The Phantom" titles in a fractured font. The black tail has a large, white mask that would cover the top half of someones face, the lower part of the nose and the mouth being uncovered. The registration "HB-IZK" is on the lower part of the tail in white. Grey apron fills the foreground, with a larger, white and red twin engined jet airliner on the right of the frame parked next to a circular terminal building on the right. White trucks, vans, and mobile airstairs litter the background, along with rows of open baggage carts. A variety of light aircraft and bizjets are parked on the far side of the runway in the distance on the right of the frame, with a large grey concrete hangar in the middle, with trees stretching across the frame beyond that, with a tree covered mountain rising to fill the rest of the frame at the back.

HB-IZK, Saab 2000, CrossAir, in a special advertising livery for The Phantom Of The Opera, at Geneva Cointrin, 5th October 1996.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner being towed from left to right by an out-of-frame truck, attached to the nose wheel by a long red pole. There is a thin blue and red stripe running along the top of the fuselage, and red "Air Charter" titles on the upper forward fuselage. There are additional red "EAS" titles on the nose. A wavy red and blue ribbon stretches across the tail. A row of white and blue buses parked side by side stretches across the frame, with trees and more buses further back.

F-GEXI, Boeing 737-2L9ADV, Air Charter, on lease from EAS Europe Aero Service, at Paris Orly, 1st November 1993.