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Photo of the Day 7th September 2025.

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude in a blue sky

EI-EVJ, Boeing 737-8AS, RyanAir, on final approach to Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 15th May 2019, as seen from Ringway Road.

On This Day 7th September 1996.

Forward view of a twin propellor-engined airliner parked on a taxiway facing slightly to the left of the camera. The plane is mostly white, with a black and orange stripe running along the body, and the words "Hawker Pacific" just below the cockpit side windows. There is a red mat on the floor, just in front of the plane's left engine, and a small black step beside the nose-wheel. Green grass in the background leads up to a series of white pre-fabricated buildings, under grey skies.

N3252M, Beech 1900D, Beechcraft, on static display at Farnborough Air Show, 7th September 1996.

Bonus Photo of the day 7th September 2025.

Front view of a twin propellor-engined, short and stubby military aircraft on display parked on concrete pads in the middle of a large grassed area, taken with a semi-fish-eye converter on a wide-angled lens, a combination that distorts straight lines while allowing a greater field of view at a closer range.. The 2 engines drive a set of contra-rotating propellors on the nose, each driving a different propellor on the same shaft, which explains the 2 sets of propellor blades. The plane is largely a pale grey-blue, with black around the cockpit canopy and around the propellors in the nose. There are yellow bands around the wings, just outboard of the main landing gear. Green grass fills the bottom of the frame, with more military planes in the background on the right. Dramatic grey sky fills the top of the frame.

XA508, Fairey Gannet T.2, Royal Navy, on display at Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport, 8th May 1993.