Tag: Corsair

Photo of the Day 27th November 2023

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

Side view of a white, 4 propellor engined airliner with a blue belly and red "British Air Ferries" titles on the upper fuselage, taxiing from right to left under a hazy but bright white sky. — G-AOYR, Vickers V.806 Viscount, British Air Ferries, turning on to Runway 23 at Manchester Airport, as seen from Ringway Road, some time in the early 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 27th July 2023

Posted on July 27, 2023July 27, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, T-tailed, twin propellor-engined airliner moving from left to right on a runway. the plane is mostly white, with "Aer Lingus Regional" titles on the forward fuselage, next to a small green shamrock. The tail and rear fuselage are a dark green, with a thin green band at the front, and a large light green shamrock. Behind, a couple of fire-fighting mockups can be seen in the fire training area, with trees in the far background. — EI-GPN, ATR72-600, Aer Lingus, accelerating on Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 6th February 2023.

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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 29th April 2023

Posted on April 29, 2023April 29, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner accelerating along a runway on it's take-off run. The plane is mostly white, with large orange "easyJet" billboard style titles on the forward fuselage, with smaller orange "Change for Good" titles under the cockpit windows. The rear fuselage is almost entirely orange, with large "supporting Unicef" titles and the unicef logos (an image of a wireframe globe overlaid with an image of the heads of an adult and a child, surrounded by a laurel wreath). The tail and engines are also orange, with white "easyJet" titles. The foreground is mostly grass, while the background is mostly grass below the plane, with some trees visible above the nose and under the tail. Above, the sky is an ominous grey. — G-EZIO, Airbus A319-111, easyJet, wearing the Unicef special colour scheme, accelerating along Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 13th March 2017.

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