Tag: BritishAircraftCorporation

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.

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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 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.

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Photo of the Day 17th November 2023

Posted on November 17, 2023November 16, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage. The plane is mostly white, with a red rear fuselage, engines, and tail, and large red "European" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with additional small "Aircharter" titles following, above the open forward right door. The registration "G-AVMP" is on the engine pods in white, while there are large letters "EAC" on the tail. There is a set of built-in airstairs coming from the the rear of the plane, under the tail cone, between the engines. In the background, a terminal building stretches across the frame, with the white tail and centre engine of a larger plane on the other side looming over the top, under a grey sky. — G-AVMP, British Aircraft Corporation 1-11-510ED, European Air Charter, parked on Pier B at Manchester Airport, some time between April 1994 and mid 1996.

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Photo of the Day 11th August 2023

Posted on August 11, 2023 by mancavgeek

EI-FWE, Sukhoi SuperJet 100-95, Brussels Airlines, flying past the Aviation Park at Manchester Airport, seconds after taking off from Runway 23R.

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Photo of the Day 30th July 2023

Posted on July 30, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is light blue on the top, with a silver belly, , and a thick darker blue stripe and thinner white stripe in the middle. There are white "KLM" titles under a stylised white crown on the forwar fuselage, with a similar, larger blue crown over blue "KLM" titles on the tail, as ell as on the white engine pods. Behind, there is a low brown building with red-framed doors and windows, with a short brown tower with glazed section on the roof, behind which is latrge green metal structure. Above it all, the sky is a depressingly dreary grey. — PH-DTB, Douglas DC10-30, KLM, taxiing to the terminal at Manchester |Airport, 13th February 1993.

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Photo of the Day 14th July 2023

Posted on July 14, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, T-tailed, twin propellor-engined airliner travelling from right to left on a runway. The plane is mostly purple, with white billboard-style "flybe" titles above a series of 6 white dots on the forward fuselage. a thick yellow and red band seperates the main fuselage from the white rear fuselage and tail. The "flybe" titles are repeated on the tail, this time in dark and light blue, above a series of 6 coloured dots. There are small "operated by Stobart Air" titles in white towards the rear of the purple part of the body. In the background, there is a large green metal structure in front of a large grey hangar on the right, with trees on the left, Above, the sky is a dismal grey. — EI-REM, ATR72-500, Flybe, operated by Stobart Air, starting it’s take off roll on Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 15th March 2017.

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Photo of the Day 15th May 2023

Posted on May 15, 2023 by mancavgeek

G-GAGA, Gulfstream American AA-5B Tiger, Cabair, parked at Manchester Barton, 17th August 1992.

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Photo of the Day 8th May 2023

Posted on May 8, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a very large 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with large "Corsair" titles on the forward fuselage. The tail has a stylised image of crashing ocean waves in dark blue, light blue, and white. The foreground has part of the roof of the terminal building just popping in to the bottom of the frame, while, the background has a large hangar on the left, large white fuel tanks in the middle, and some random buildings on the right. Above, the sky is a hazy blue, while golden sunlight is streaming across the entire scene, especially the plane. — F-BPVG, Boeing 747-128, Corsair, taxiing to it’s gate at Manchester Airport, 28th October 1995.

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Photo of the Day 21st April 2023

Posted on April 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a three engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane has a light grey belly and white upper half, seperated by a thin gold stripe. There are dark blue "Continental Micronesia" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail has a white lower section, up to the top of the centre engine cowling, then the upper section is a dark blue, overlaid with a stylised wireframe globe in white and gold. In the foreground is the tail of a smaller plane, mostly red, with green stripes at the top and bottom. The red section has 3 legs, arranged like the spokes of a wheel, joined at the hip and looking as if they are running/rolling. In the background are a handful of black hangars, with some light aircraft parked in front of them, with trees behind. under a yellow-tinged grey sky — N68044, Douglas DC 10-10, Continental Micronesia, taxiing to the cargo ramp to wait to go into one of the maintenance hangars after landing on Runway 06 at Manchester Airport, 21st May 1994.

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