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Photo of the Day 22nd November 2023

Posted on November 22, 2023November 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a deep blue belly that sweeps up to fill most of the rear of the tail, and a red cheatlin running along the body from under the nose and up into the tail, seperating the 2 colours. There are pale blue "Onur Air" titles on the upper forward fuselage, just aft of a Turkish flag (red field with a white star in the center and white crescent offset it the right), and the registration "TC-ONF" on the upper rear fuselage in black. The tail has the red outline of a circle, containing a stylised image of a red flying bird. In the background, a large blue hangar dominates the rest of the frame, with various airstairs, trucks, trailers, and cranes parked randomly in front. — TC-ONF, Airbus A320-231, Onur Air, in basic Leisure Air colours (which themselves look very much like Presidential Airways colours) taxiing to it’s gate at Manchester Airport, somewhere between April 1995 and February 1999.

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Photo of the Day 3rd November 2023

Posted on November 3, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right and slightly towards the camera. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue belly, and thin blue and red stripes on the lower fuselage, and red "Istanbul Airlines" titles on the forward upper fuselage. The tail is dark blue, with a white circle containing an image of a red tulip. In the background, grass and taxiways fill the rest of the screen. — TC-AGA, Boeing 737-4Y0, Istanbul Airlines, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 5th October 2023

Posted on October 5, 2023October 4, 2023 by mancavgeek

Rear view of a 4 engined, very thin, very long, very pointy jet airliner, with wings tilted slightly down, facing almost directly away from the camera and turning to the right. The plane is almost entirely white, with a series of red and blue diagonal stripes on the tail. A set of wheels, not connected to the ground, can be seen coming from below the tailcone. In the foreground, a group of people can be seen watching it through a chain link fence topped with barbed wire, while in the background, grass and trees meet a bright white sky. — F-BTSD, Aerospatiale Concorde 101, Air France, turning on to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, as seen from tthe Airport Hotel, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 31st August 2023

Posted on August 31, 2023August 30, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined military jet trainer aircraft, with the wings attached to the top of the fuselage and angled down steeply. The plane is mostly covered in a pale green and sandy brown camoglage pattern, with a vivid blue belly. There is a green/white/green roundel on the engine air intake, with a glag made up of green/white/green vertical bars on the tail, above the black serial "NAF477". Under the cockpit, there are downward pointing white and red triangles indicating the location of ejector seats, and yellow and black warning lables indicating some form of emergency switch. The wing has pylons coming down from 2 different points along it's span, with the outer pylon being fitted with a large external fuel tank in the same green and sandy brown upper and blue lower surfaces The cockpit has two seats in a tandem configuration, although only the front seat seems to be occupied. In the baclkground, a terminal building is visible, with the nose of a white airliner poking in to frame on the upper left, and the tailcone of another plane on the upper right. — NAF477, Dassault-Breguet-Dornier Alpha Jet A, Nigerian Air Force, taxiing out to Runway 23L past the Aviation Viewing Park at Manchester Airport on it’s delivery flight to Nigeria.

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Photo of the Day 19th August 2023

Posted on August 20, 2023August 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Low side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude with the flaps extended behind the wings and nose raised quite sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly dark blue with a dark grey belly, and white "Vietnam Airlines" titles on the upper forward fuselage, partially obscured by the engine. A large golden flower adorns the upper forward fuselage, the tail, and the engine pods. The registration "VN-A142" is visible in white on the upper rear fuselage, and in black under the left wing. Behind the plane, the sky is an intense blue, with wisps of cloud in the top left corner. — VN-A142, Boeing 777-2Q8ER, Vietnam Airlines,crossing the airfield perimeter shortly after taking off from Runway 08 at London Gatwick, 12th September 2014.

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Photo of the Day 6th August 2023

Posted on August 6, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a very large 4 engined passenger airliner being towed from left to right on a taxiway by a dark blue and grey tug. The plane is mostly white, with the top of the nose cone painted black, a reversed US flag between the upper and lower deck windows on the forward fuselage, and large black "Evergreen" titles over the front of the wings. The registration "N470EV" is painted prominently on the upper rear fuselage. In the background, a grey building is right up against a large concrete retaining wall, with houses, a church, and some tower blocks behind it, under a blue-grey sky. — N470EV, Boeing 747-273C, Evergreen International, being towed along a taxiway at London Heathrow, 28th July 1995.

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Photo of the Day 28th July 2023

Posted on July 28, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of an all white twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. There are red "Friendly Low Fares" titles in the upper fuselage over the wings, diagonal red "Jet2.com" titles on the tail and upturned wingtips, and both sets of titles on the engine pods. In the background, trees and bushes mark the airfield perimeter, running off into the distance. On the horizon, the dish of a radio telescope can be seen over the planes cockpit on the right of the frame. Above, the sky is a hazy bright white. — G-GDFV, Boeing 737-85F, Jet2, taxiing past the Aviation Viewing Park after landing on Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 27th September 2013.
Space geeks might want to look at the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank visible way, way off in the distance. just over the cockpit.

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Photo of the Day 11th July 2023

Posted on July 11, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner moving at high speed from right to left along a runway. The plane is almost entirely white, withsmall black "JOTA" titleson the upper forward fuselage, just aft of the forward door. There is a black and orange band coming up from below the rear fuselage and sweeping up to cover the front of the tail. The registration "G-JOTR" is on the lower rear fuselage, just forward of the rear door. In the foreground, a large grassed arealeads up to the wet runway, where spray is being kicked up by the plane's wheels. In the background, more grassed areas lead up to trees in the distance, under a grey-blue sky. — G-JOTR, British Aerospace Avro RJ85, Jota Aviation, accelerating for takeoff on Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 26th January 2018.

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Photo of the Day 20th June 2023

Posted on June 20, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a deep blue lower half, seperated by blue, white, and thin red stripes running the length of the body. There are blue "Britannia" tiitles on the upper forward fuselage, just aft of a large blue head wearing a helmet with a large, backward-swept plume. The tail is almost reversed, white ant the base and deep blue at the top, seperated by a series of white, blue, and red stripes. Overlaid on the tail is the image of a seated woman carrying a trident vertically in her left hand, her right hand holding a circular shield bearng a blue and white variant of the Union Flag, her head covered with the helmet mentioned earlier. The left side of the plane has an airbridge attached to door just forward of the wing. There is a light blue, low-slung truck attached to the nose wheel by a long pole. In the foreground is a black chainlink fence, with a couple of luggage carts parked to the lower left of the frame. Above it all, the sky is a flat grey. — G-BYAD, Boeing 757-204, Britannia, parked on Gate 201 at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 19th June 2023

Posted on June 19, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor engined airliner parked inside an airport terminal building, facing to the right. The plane is mostly cream coloured, with a thick red stripe running along the body, as well on the top of the engines, and the wingtips. There is a mannequin sitting in the planes cockpit, and a cardboard black and white cut-out figurepropped up by the tail. In the foreground, some white seats have been taped together, with some rolls of green material in metal cages are behind them, under the planes nose. Above, part of the roofs structure can be seen, with concrete beams surrounded by metal supports. — D-IGUN, De Haviland DH.89A Dragon Rapide, part of the Air Classik collection, inside Terminal 1 at Frankfurt Airport, next to the entrance to the Zuschauerterrasse (Spectator Terraces), 16th October 1993.
Apparently, this had been removed from the roof after being sold to a private owner looking to use as spares to rebuild another Rapide.

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