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Photo of the Day 8th May 2025.

mancavgeek

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

SX-BDS, Airbus A320-214, FlyVista, rolling for take-off on Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 24th August 2015.

On This Day 8th May 2025.

Side view of an olive green, single engined military fighter jet aircraft, parked on grass facing to the right. The black serial "E-425" is is on the plane's nose, just under the cockpit bubble. There is a red and white roundel on the rear fuselage, with a small red pennant with a white cross in the middle on the tail. There are red covers on the air intakes in the wing root, with a red metal cover on the upper rear fuselage. Green grass fills the bottom of the frame, with grey skies filling the top of the frame.

E-425, Hawker Hunter F51, Royal Danish Air Force, on display at Midland Air Museum at Coventry Airport, 8th May 1993.

On This Day 2 8th May 2025.

Side view of a white, twin-engined jet airliner parked facing to the right. The plane has a grey belly, and dark blue "Lufthansa" on the upper forward fuselage. The blue registration "D-ABME" is on the lower rear fuselage, next to a small German flag. The tail is the same dark blue, with a yellow circle containing a stylised image of a blue flying bird. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a pair of cream-coloured airbridges stretching across the frame, attached to a terminal building on the right of the image. Tall black gate markers stretch towards the top left of the frame from the terminal, with a blue truck parked amongst them. Green grass beyond that stretches off into the distance.

D-ABME, Boeing 737-230, Lufthansa, at Birmingham Airport, 8th May 1993.

'Throw Thursday 8th May 2025.

Side view of a white, high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a thin blue stripe running along the body just below the passenger cabin windows, sweeping up the fill the tail. There are blue "Air UK" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and half of a UK flag waving on the tail. The black registration "G-UKTF" is on a white fillet at the front of the base of the tail. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with more concrete and grass leading up to a grey building in the distance, with a very large, grey and dark blue 4 engined jet airliner parked on the top left of the frame.

G-UKTF, Fokker F-50, Air UK, at London Heathrow, some time between January 1995 and January 1998, as seen from the roof of The Queens Building.