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Photo of the Day 2nd January 2024.

Posted on January 2, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, high-winged, twin propellor engined airliner taxiing from right to left and slightly away from the camera, with a white car in the foreground, and large patches of grass in the background. — G-BIFH, Shorts SD3-30-100, Gill Airways, at Manchester Airport, some time between September 1990 and April 1995.

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Photo of the Day 8th November 2023

Posted on November 8, 2023November 7, 2023 by mancavgeek

Rather backlit side view of a twin propellor engined airliner flying from left to right at a very low level, with undercarriage lowered and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is just about to land. The plane has a grey top and a dark blue belly, with a thin red stripe running along the middle of the body. There are black "British Airways" titles on the upper forward fuselage. In the backgroune, the sky is a very pale blue, getting whiter and brighter towards the bottom of the frame under the plane, suggesting that the sun is very low in the sky, the shadows on thkis side of the plane suggesting that the sun is shining brightly on the other side. — G-BTPE, British Aerospace Advanced TurboProp (ATP) crossing the airport perimeter fence on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 10th October 2023

Posted on October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a single engined light aircraft parked on grass facing to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a red belly, with a blue, white, and red roundel on the rear fuselage, and blue, white, and red fin flash on the tail. the top of the nose cone is painted black. The serial "XX522" is under the horizontal stabiliser on the rear fuselage. The foreground is filled with grass, while in the background, some people are standing on the far side of the plane, their legsvisible under the fuselage. Further back, trees and bushes mark the airfields perimeter, with rolling hills in the far distance, under a hazy grey sky. — XX522/06/G-DAWG, Scottish Aviation Bulldog T.1, in RAF colours, at City Airport Manchester/Barton, 3rd June 2023.

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Photo of the Day 3rd October 2023

Posted on October 3, 2023October 2, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined aitrliner moving at high speed from right to left. The plane is mostly purple, with yellow and red bands around the rear fuselage, and a white tail extending down over the tail cone. There are large white "flybe" titles over 5 white dots on the forward fuselage, with white "Faster than road or rail" titles on the outside of the purple engine pods. There are diagonal "flybe" titles in 2 shades of blue on the tail , over 5 dots of varying colours. The registration "G-JEDP" is on the tailcone in black. Grass fills the foreground, while in the background, a pair of large grey hangars dominate the centre of the screen, with a green metal structure on the left of the frame, and an out-of-focus terminal building on the right. Above everything, the sky is a flat grey. — G-JEDP, De Haviland Canada DHC-8-402Q Dash 8, Flybe, accelerating for take off on Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 13th March 2017.

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Photo of the Day 11th September 2023

Posted on September 11, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor engined airliner taxiing from left to right after landing on a runway. The plane is mostly white, with red "euromanx.com" on the lower rear fuselage, and "Manx" titles on the lower forward fuselage. The registration "OE-HBB" is on the rear fuselage in black, next to an Austrian flag (equal red-white-red horizontal bands). The tail and engine pods are red, with 3 goldenn, armoured legs, joined at the hip and running in a circle on the tail. In the foreground, the lower quarter of the frame is a grey building, with grass beyond that running to the runway. In the background, large grassed areas lead off to trees at the airfield perimeter. On the middle right of the frame, a large brown brick building with a sloping black roof is visible. Rolling hills beyond that slowly vanish in to the hazy grey sky. — OE-HBB, De Haviland Canada DHC8-201Q Dash 8, Euromanx, landing on Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, 20th January 2006.

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Photo of the Day 17th July 2023

Posted on July 17, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a single propellor-engined aircraft with a rotory wing on display in a museum, facing to the left. The plane is mostly silver, with a black cover on the engine at the front. There are 2 open cockpits, one behind the other, for the 2 occupants, with 4 metal struts extending upwards from the corners around the forward cockpit to an aerodynamic cover which holds the rotor hub for the rotary wing. the undercarriage has 3 struts securing each forward mainwheel to the fuselage. There is a large blue, white, and red roundel on the side of the fuselage, with another on the top of the fuselage directly above, , with the serial "k4232" next to it. In the background, white support beams for the roof are visible, with other aircraft exhibits dotted around the place. — K4232, Avro 671 Rota I (a license-built Cierva C.30A), Royal Air Force, on display at the RAF Museum, Hendon. 4th March 1996.

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Photo of the Day 3rd March 2023

Posted on March 3, 2023 by mancavgeek

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