Category: On This Day

Photo of the Day 30th November 2023

Posted on November 30, 2023November 29, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a red, twin propellor-engined airliner with a yellow cheatline running along the body and white "Royal Mail Skynet" titles on the upper forward fuselage, parked facing to the left, with a large black hangar in the background. — G-BEJE, Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Series 1, Emerald Airways, in Royal Mail Skynet colours, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 29th November 2023

Posted on November 29, 2023November 28, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined white jet airliner with a dark blue stripe running along the body, blue "Lufthansa" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and a dark blue tail with a flying bluebird in a yellow circle, taxiing from left to right, in front of a selection of brown and grey hangars, and what appears to be a construction site on the right of the frame. — D-ABHP, Boeing 737-230, Lufthansa, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 28th November 2023

Posted on November 28, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined, grey jet airliner with a dark blue belly and tail, taxiing from left to right. In the background, a large expanse of grass leads up to trees in the distance. — G-MANS, British Aerospace 146-200, British Airways Express, at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990’s.

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Photo of the Day 24th November 2023

Posted on November 24, 2023November 23, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined white jet airliner with blue "Air France" titles on the upper forward fuselage and diagonal blue and red stripes on the tail taxiing from left to right. — G-GINL, Boeing 737-53C, Air France, at Frankfurt Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

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Photo of the Day 16th November 2023

Posted on November 16, 2023November 14, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a blue belly that sweeps up to fill the tail, and large blue "Airtours" titles on the lower forward fuselage. The tail has an abstract design in pale blue, red, and yellow. In the background, large grassed areas and a runway lead up to a fence, beyond which is a large field surrounded by trees, with a white house nestled in the trees, under a dismal grey sky. — G-TICL, Airbus A320-231, Airtours, taxiing out to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, as seen from the top of the Terminal 3 car park.

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Photo of the Day 15th November 2023

Posted on November 15, 2023November 15, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage taxiing from right to left, The plane has a white top half and bare metal lower half, seperated by a blue cheatline running over the passenger cabin windows. There are blue "Lufthansa" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and black "Boeing 727" titles on the side mounted engine pods. The tail is a dark blue, with a large yellow circle containing a blue bird with wings outstretched flying from right to left, abnd the registration "D-ADPI" on the centre engine intake. Concrete apron fills most of the rest of the frame, with a couple of white airbridges sticking out, one of which at the top of the frame has a white plane with a blue and white tail attached. In the distance, right at the top of the frame, a red, brown, and white building is at the edge of the apron, with trees behind under a light pink sky. — D-ADPI, Boeing 727-230, Lufthansa, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s, taken at a fairly extreme angle to try and fit the whole thing in – I had borrowed a pentax SLR with a 70-210 zoom from a friend, and could really have done with a 50mm (possibly a 35mm!) lens for this shot from this point.

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Photo of the Day 14th November 2023

Posted on November 14, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude with it's undercarriage lowered. The plane is almost entirely white, with a large blue splotch overlaid with a smaller red splotch on the rear fuselage, the same design repeated on the tail, but with the red splotch squared off and with a large white cross in the middle, and the blue splotch having a ring of gold stars in the top left corner. There are blue "Crossair" titles on the upper forward fuselage. In the background, blue sky with wisps of white fill the rest of the frame. — HB-IZY, Saab 2000, Crossair, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time after May 1997.

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Photo of the Day 7th November 2023

Posted on November 7, 2023 by mancavgeek

Rear view of a 4 propellor-engined airliner taxiing away from the camera and slightly to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a red and blue stripe separating that from the blue belly. There are red "British Air Ferries" on the upper forward fuselage, and the registration "G-CSZB" on the lower rear fuselage in white. In the background, grey apron leads up to grass, which fills the rest of the frame. — G-CSZB, Vickers 804 Viscount, British Air Ferries, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 6th November 2023

Posted on November 6, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor engined airliner taxiing from left to right, seen from a slightly elevated viewpoint. The plane is mostly white, with a light blue and grey stripe running along the body, repeated diagonally on the tail. There are large "Luxair" and smaller "Commuter" titles in black on the upper forward fuselage, with the flags of both the EU and Luxembourg a bit further back. The registration "LX-LGL" is on the rear fuselage in black. In the background, grey concrete apron fills most of the screen, with red-painted concrete with yellow hatchingdelineating a non-accessible area in the middle. — LX-LGL, Embraer EMB120 Brasilia, Luxair, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 5th November 2023

Posted on November 5, 2023November 3, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane has a white top half with a grey belly, seperated with a thick light blue stripe with thinner yellow and red stripes at the bottom, and a dark blue stripe at the top, sweeping up in to the tail. There are blue "Olympic" titles on the upper fuselage. In the background, a grey terminal with yellow airbridges, some attached to grey planes, is on the upper right of the frame, and with a couple of hangars, one blue, one brown, with some bizjets parked in front. Hi-rise buildings in the distance dominate the left of the frame, under a grey sky. — SX-BEI, Airbus A300B4-103, Olympic Airways, at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

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