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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 27th September 2023

Posted on September 27, 2023September 25, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a pair of propellor-engined aircraft, a very small one with two enginesmounted on top of a larger one with only a single engine, taking off while trailing smoke for an air display. The lower one has a high-mounted wing, giving a large space to fit a frame to hold the smaller plane, which has a low mounted wing. The lower plane is mostly white, with a red stripe running along the belly, and blue "Brittany Ferries" titles on the rear fuselage under a waving red and white flag. It has twin tails carried on either end of the horizontal stabiliser, the top and bottom sections of the tails painted red, with the registration "F-GDPX" on the outer surfaces. There are 2 pilots dressed in red jackets visible through the large cabin windows. The upper plane is small - really small. Everything about this plane looks comical, especially compared to it's partner. Very small engines are mounted above the wing, driving very small propellors. A massive 2-piece bubble canopy sits above the fuselage, through which can be seen the pilot, who barely fits in to the canopy. This plane is white, with a red stripe on the belly, and "Brittany Ferries" titels on the fuselage under the cockpit, with the same red and blue flag. A larger version of that flag, tilted the other way, is on the tail. The registration "F-PZTU" is on the rear fuselage. There are a pair of smoke canisters, one under each wing, which will be turned on once the planes seperate. Behind them, the sky is a flat grey. — F-GDPX, Max Holste MH-1521M Broussard, and F-PZTU, Colomban MC-15E Cri-Cri, in the colours of Brittany Ferries, their sponsor, taking off in a VERY close formation ĥfor a flying display at the Woodford Air Show, some time in the 1990s.

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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 8th August 2023

Posted on August 8, 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 large "Star Alliance" titles running along the fuselage. The engines are a deep blue, with a wide black vertical vertical band in the middle with the registration "OH-BLP" in white, as well as a white flag with a black cross. The tail is black, with 5 silver arrowheads arranged in a circle. Those same arrowheads are visible in a smaller form under the cockpit windows at the front of the fuselage. In the background, a large terminal building is visible, with several planes parked on their stands. Above it all, the sky is a hazy grey-blue. — OH-BLP, Boeing 717-23S, Blue1, in Star Alliance livery, taxiing out to Runway 05L past the Aviation Viewing Park at Manchester Airport, 29th March 2014.

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Photo of the Day 18th July 2023

Posted on July 18, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a single engined light aircraft parked facing to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a thick brown stripe covering most of the upper fuselage and thin orange and red stripes running along the middle of the body. The same design covers the spats over the fixed undercarriage, as well as on the tail. In the background, the rain-covered apron stretches off into the distance, giving way to grass which runs off to the airfield perimeter, vanishing in to the rain. — G-BIDP, Piper PA28-181 Cherokee Archer II, parked at Liverpool Speke, 22nd January 1993.

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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 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 27th June 2023

Posted on June 27, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor engined business aircraft moving from right to left, with the nose lifted slightly off the ground as it rotates off the runway. The plane is mostly white, with a thin blue and gold stripe running along the body from the nose, widening behind the cabin windows, before sweeping up to occupy most of the tail. The registration "G-LYDF" is on the tail in large golden letters. In the background is a large grey-brown hanger, behind which is a white jet airliner with "Avro RJX" titles on the forward fuselage. — G-LYDF, Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain, taking off from Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 15th March 2017.

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Photo of the Day 26th May 2023

Posted on May 26, 2023May 25, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner moving from left to right, with flaps extended under the wings, spoilers raised on top of the wings, and thrust reversersdeployed on the engines as it decelerates hard after landing on a wet runway. The plane is mostly white, with a deep blue belly and engines, and deep blue "British Airways" titles on the forward fuselage, next to a stylised ribbon, red on one side and blue on the other. The tail has 2 thick wavy red lines, with a wavy blue triangle between them. In the foreground, alternating strips of grass and tarmac can be seen, while the background has a partially hidden light blue plane on the right, with trees filling the width of the frame, and dismal rainclouds completing the picture. — G-EUXD, Airbus A321-231, British Airways, drying the rather damp runway as it lands on Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 4th February 2016.

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