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Photo of the Day 26th November 2023

Posted on November 26, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined white jet airliner with an orange, red, and blue stripe runnning along the body, moving at high speed along a black runway. In the background, a low grey building with a white roof dominates the middle of the frame, with trees beyond disappearing in to haze in the distance, under a grey sky. — N7642U, Boeing 727-222, United Airlines, braking hard on Runway 23Left at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

Photo of the Day 19th November 2023

Posted on November 19, 2023November 18, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a thick, dark blue cheatline running along the body and sweeping up into the tail, where it forms the outline of a letter "A", with a light blue triangle inside. There are large, dark blue, billboard-style "ATI" titles on the forward fuselage, as well as black "DC-9" titles on the engine pods, and the registration "I-RIKS" on the lower rear fuselage in black. In the background, strips of grass and tarmac lead up to a large grey and yellow terminal building at the top of the frame, with a very large, 4 engined, grey and dark blue jet airliner parked in front, slowly vanishing in to haze. — I-RIKS, Douglas DC-9-32, ATI Aero Transporti Italiani, taxiing to it’s gate at a slightly hazy London Hethrow, 1992.

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.

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.

Photo of the Day 12th November 2023

Posted on November 12, 2023November 12, 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 is mostly white, with a green and red cheatline running along the fuselage, with some red titles in an Arabic script that transliterate to "Royal Air Maroc" on the upper forward fuselage. The large red letters "RAM" appear on the tail, under the outline of a green 5 pointed star, which appears to be leaving a red trail as it moves in an ovoid counter-clockwise ovoid path.In the foreground, a collection of blue and grey trucks, and metal cargo containers fill the bottom of the frame. In the background, a selection of buildings stretch from side to side, with trees and rolling hills in the background, under a bright but hazy sky with a slight yellow tint. — CN-RMQ, Boeing 727-2B6, RAM Royal Air Maroc, at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

Photo of the Day 31st October 2023

Posted on October 31, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, with a pair of thin red stripes running along the body, above and below the cabin windows, with the windows edges painted to resemble arched windows used in Indian palaces. There are red titles on the upper fuselage in an Indian script that translate to "Air India". On the tail, there is a red stylised flying bird, under diagonal red "Air India" titles. In the background, a white 3 engined jet airliner faces to the right, amidst acres of paved apron, with trees running off into the far distance, under a bright but hazy sky. — VT-EJJ, Airbus A310-304, Air India, at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990s.

Photo of the Day 27th October 2023

Posted on October 27, 2023October 26, 2023 by mancavgeek

F-GLNI, British Aerospace 146-200QC, Air Jet, being pushed back from it’s stand on Pier B at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.
For some reason, the clamshell air brakes on the rear fuselage are open.

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.

Photo of the Day 4th October 2023

Posted on October 4, 2023October 2, 2023 by mancavgeek

Rear-side view of a three- engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage taxiing from right to left, turning to the right and away from the camera. The plane is mostly white, with an orange-brown belly, and an orange stripe running along the body. There are black "Aviogenex" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail is orange brown, with a stylised white letter "A" over it's reflection in the middle. In the foreground, a group of people are standing around, watching this plane through a chainlink fence topped with barbed wire, while the background is mostly grass and trees at the airfields perimeter, under a grey sky. — YU-A__, Boeing 727-200, Aviogenex, turning on to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, as seen from hte Airport Hotel, some time in the 1990s.

Photo of the Day 20th September 2023

Posted on September 20, 2023September 19, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left. The plane has a white body, with "Scandinavian Airlines" titles above and below the cabin windows on the forward fuselage. The engine pods are red, with white "Scandinavian" titles. The tail is dark blue, with large white "SAS" titles. Green grass fills most of the foreground, while the in the background, various airport buildings stretch across the middle of the frame, with blue-grey sky above. — EI-FPJ, Canadair CRJ-900LR, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, lining up on Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 15th May 2019.