Tag: BritishAerospace

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.

Photo of the Day 23rd November 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023November 22, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left and slightly towards the camera, with a black chainlink fence filling most of the lower frame, and a bright but cloudy sky filling the top of the frame. — Unknown registration (F-G___) Fokker F100, Air Littoral, taxiing past the Airport Hotel as it turns on to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

Photo of the Day 18th November 2023

Posted on November 18, 2023November 16, 2023 by mancavgeek

N803DE, McDonnell Douglas MD11, Delta Air Lines, at London Gatwick, some time in the late 1990s.

Photo of the Day 13th November 2023

Posted on November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 by mancavgeek

F-GDRM, Douglas DC-8-73, Air Evasion-Aire d'Evasions, at Manchester Airport, some time in 1993. — F-GDRM, Douglas DC-8-73, Air Evasion-Aire d’Evasions, at Manchester Airport, some time in 1993.

Photo of the Day 1st November 2023

Posted on November 1, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left and slightly towards the camera. The plane is mostly white, with large blue "Adria" billboard-style titles on the forward fuselage, and the black letters "BF" above the front of the cockpit windows. There is a large, dark blue letter "A" on the tail, with an aquamarine reflection just below it. In the foregrounbd, tarmac fills most of the bottom of the frame, with the white tail of anopther plane in the lower right corner, while in the background, more tarmac and grass leads up to a runway and a large black hangar in the far distance. — SL-ABF or S5-ABF, Douglas DC9-32, Adria Airways, taxiing to it’s gate on Pier B at Manchester Airport, either between December 1992 and March 1993 (SL-ABF), or between October 1993 and June 2001 (S5-ABF).

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 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.

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.

Photo of the Day 27th September 2023

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