Manchester

Photo of the Day 8th April 2025.

mancavgeek

08 Apr 2025 • 1 min read

G-JEDT, De Haviland Canada DHC-8-402Q, FlyBe, taxiing out to Runway 23 left at Manchester Airport, 9th March 2017, as seen from the South Side mounds.

Tails Tuesday 8th April 2025.

Close-up shot of the blue tail of a white jet airliner, parked facing to the left. The tail has a large yellow circle, with a stylised blue flying bird in the middle. A brown building stretches across the background, with the balance boom of a large yellow crane in the distance on the left of the frame. Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

D-AIAN, Airbus A300B4-603, Lufthansa, at Frankfurt Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

Bonus Photo of the Day 8th April 2025.

Side view of a white, 3 engined jet airliner with red piping on the body and a red tail, taxiing from right to left at a busy airport. There is a thick red stripe running along the body, sweeping up and down to fill the rear fuselage and tail The tail has a stylised white image of a bird with spread wings. There are black "Air Lanka" titles on the upper forward fuselage. Black concrete apron fills the foreground, with red and yellow markings for planes to follow. 3 jet airliners are visible in the background - the rear fuselage and tail of an all-white jet airliner with orange and blue diagonal stripes on the tail on the left of the frame, a very large, 4 engined blue and white jet airliner with blue "KLM" titles on the white tail just behind that, and a white, 4 engined jet airliner with a blue and orange stripe running along the body and an orange and blue tail in the distance in the middle. Tall buildings mark the periphery of the airport, slowly vanishing in to grey haze.

4R-ULA, Lockheed L-1011-500 TriStar, Air Lanka, taxiing the last few feet to it's gate at Amsterdam Schipol, either 1992, 1993, or 1996.