Manchester

Photo of the Day 6th March 2025.

mancavgeek

06 Mar 2025 • 1 min read

PH-BTD, Boeing 737-306, KLM, taxiing the last few metres to Gate 28 at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s after January 1993, as seen from the top of the t1 car park.

'Throw Thursday 6th March 2025.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, facing to the left but being pushed back to the right from it's gate by an almost-out-of-frame white truck attached to the nosewheel by a long yellow pole. There are blue "CrossAir" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with red and blue splotches on the sides of the fuselage just afore and aft of the wing, repeated on the tail overlaid with a white cross. The registration "HB-IUM" is on the side of the engine pods in black. Concrete apron fills the foreground, with taxiways and a runway separated by grass in the background. A grey airbridge stretches in to frame from the left, attached to a white, twin engined jet airliner with a blue and yellow tail.

HB-IUM, McDonnell Douglas MD83, CrossAir, at London Heathrow, some time after November 1997.

Bonus Photo of the Day 6th March 2025.

Side view of a World War 2-era single propellor-engined fighter plane taxiing from right to left on a tarmac runway. The plane is a grey-blue, with white serial "PM631" on the rear fuselage, with a large white letter "S" slightly further forward. There is a dark and light blue roundel just behind the cockpit, and a dark and light blue fin flash on the tail. Green grass fills the foreground, with more grass leading up to a pair of hangars in the background, the one on the right behind trees. Grey sky completes the picture