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Photo of the Day 1st December 2023

Posted on December 1, 2023November 29, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, and black "Scandinavian" titles on the upper forward fuselage, above red, black, white, yellow, and blue half-bands running under the fuselage, and large black "SAS" titles on the tail, accelerating from right to left, with a large grey-brown building in the backgroiund, under a grey-blue sky. — LN-RLS, Douglas DC9-41, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, accelerating down Runway 24 for take off at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 29th November 2023

Posted on November 29, 2023November 28, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined white jet airliner with a dark blue stripe running along the body, blue "Lufthansa" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and a dark blue tail with a flying bluebird in a yellow circle, taxiing from left to right, in front of a selection of brown and grey hangars, and what appears to be a construction site on the right of the frame. — D-ABHP, Boeing 737-230, Lufthansa, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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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.

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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 21st November 2023

Posted on November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 4 engined cargo plane taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a red, orange, and yellow cheatline swooping down from above the forward fuselage, then running along the middle of the body, with white "Iberia Cargo" titles overlaid towards the front. The tail is white, with the large letters "IB" in red and yellow, respectively, , and the registratyion "EC-EMO" at the top of the tail. In the background, a large grey hangar with blue "British Airways" titles fills the right side of the frame, with a brown brisk tower with a glazed top floor on the right, next to a low building with large red glazed doors and a white roof. Behind that, a large, green, metal box-like structure reaches into the grey sky. — EC-EMD, Douglas DC8-62F, Iberia Cargo, taxiing to the cargo apron at Manchester Airport, 15th January 1996.

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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.

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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.

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Photo of the Day 7th November 2023

Posted on November 7, 2023 by mancavgeek

Rear view of a 4 propellor-engined airliner taxiing away from the camera and slightly to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a red and blue stripe separating that from the blue belly. There are red "British Air Ferries" on the upper forward fuselage, and the registration "G-CSZB" on the lower rear fuselage in white. In the background, grey apron leads up to grass, which fills the rest of the frame. — G-CSZB, Vickers 804 Viscount, British Air Ferries, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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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).

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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.

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