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Photo of the Day 4th October 2023

Posted on November 4, 2023November 4, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left and slightly towards the left of the camera. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and thick red, white, and blue stripes running along the body, the white stripe covering the passenger cabin windows. There are blue "Rich International" titles on the upper fuselage, partially overlaid on the red stripe. In the background, In the background, baggage carts and mobile air stairs adorn the apron on the right of the frame, whie a white jet airliner pokes into the middle of the frame from the left, while a cluster of 5 planes, mostly in blues, greys, and white, face out of the frame at the top left, with a red and white striped barrier beyond them stretching across most of the frame. — N304EA, Lockheed L1011-1 TriStat, Rich International, at London Gatwick, 26th July 1995.

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Photo of the Day 30th October 2023

Posted on October 30, 2023 by mancavgeek

Rear view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, being pushed back by a low, blue tug attached to it's nosewheel. The plane is mostly white, with a blue belly, and a pair of thin red stripes running along the fuselage. There are red "Lauda" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the registration "OE-LRC" on the rear fuselage in black, just aft of a small Austrian flag (equal red, white, and red horizontal stripes). There are 2 red letter "L" 's on the tail, one nestled inside the other. In the background, a blue and grey propellor airliner is sparked in front of a terminal building, with a couple of white baggage trucks parked next to it, and a grey tug parked in front of it's nose, and some men in hi-viz jackets standing around. — OE-LRC, Canadair CRJ-100LR, Lauda AIr, being pushed back from it’s stand on Pier B at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 9th September 2023

Posted on September 9, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner being pushed back from it's stand, facing to the left and away from the camera. The plane is mostly white, with a thin red and blue stripe running along the body and sweeping up to fill the tail.There are dark blue "Yemenia" titles on the upper fuselage, in English at the front, and in an Arabiv script towards the middle. The tail has a white circle, with a dark blue oval with a white hoile, and 3 lines trailing off the back, with a red crescent overlaid on top. There are "Airbus A310" titles on the lower rear fuselage. The engine pods are red at the front, and blue at the rear. There is a blue tow truck attached to the nose gear. In the backgrpound is a view across the airfield, mostly concrete apron, with a handful of airliners parked by a large building in the top left corner. — F-OHPQ, Airbus A310-222 Yemenia, at London Gatwick, 26th July 1995.

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Photo of the Day 7th September 2023

Posted on September 7, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane's body is almost entirely white, with large red "Swiss" titles on the forward fuselage, and the registration "HB-IPT" on the lower rear fuselage in black. The tail is white, with a thick red stripe running along it, with a large white cross over the top. Green grass fills the foreground, while a terminal buildingstretches across the middle of the frame in the background, under a grey sky. — HB-IPT, Airbus A319-112, Swiss, taxiing out to Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, as seen from the Aviation Viewing park, 4th February 2016.

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Photo of the Day 30th August 2023

Posted on August 30, 2023August 29, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined bizjet taxiing from right to left. The plane is almost entirely white, the only colour being the registration "OE-IOD" on the side-mounted engine pods in black, and the Austrian flag (red, white, and red horizontal bands) on the top of the tail. In the background, large expanses of grass lead up to trees in the distance, below a cloudy grey sky. — OE-IOD, Dassault Falcon 900, turning on to Runway 23L at Manchester Airport for departure, 24th November 2014.

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Photo of the Day 21st July 2023

Posted on July 21, 2023July 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing to the left of the camera, turning further to the left. The plane is mostly white, with large billboard-style orange "easyJet.com" titles on the fuselage, The tail is a bright orange, with diagonal white "easyJet" titles, with the engines also being orange with white titles. In the background, a large grey hangar is visible over the right wing, whileanother large grey hangar and a tall control tower is visible over the right wing. The sky is a hazy blue-grey. — G-EZWS, Airbus A320-214, EasyJet, turning on to Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 5th June 2015.

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Photo of the Day 4th July 2023

Posted on July 4, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with large red billboard-style "TEA" titles on the forward fuselage, with smaller silver "Switzerland" titles further back. The tail is bright red, with a white cross in the middle, with red engine cowlings under the wings. In the background, a white twin engined airliner is taxiing away from the camera, towards the runway visible in the distance. There is a parking area filled with light aircraft towards the top right. In the far distance, rolling hills covered in trees meet grey sky at the horizon. — HB-IIE, Boeing 737-3Q8, TEA Switzerland, taxiing to it’s stand at Zurich Kloten, 28th September 1996.

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Photo of the Day 30th June 2023

Posted on June 30, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a very large 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and thick green and red stripes running along the body from the nose, covering the lower deck passenger windows. There is a large, red piece of Arabic script on the upper forward fuselage, transliterating into English as Royal Air Morocco". On the tail, there is the green outline of a 5-pointed star, with a red src for a tail, above the red letters "RAM". In the background is a tall lighting pole looming over the plane, with a sprawling white building and a couple more lighting poles further back, with hazy trees in the background. — CN-RMS, Boeing 747SP-44, Royal Air Maroc, taxiing at Paris Orly, 1st November 1993.

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Photo of the Day 20th June 2023

Posted on June 20, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a deep blue lower half, seperated by blue, white, and thin red stripes running the length of the body. There are blue "Britannia" tiitles on the upper forward fuselage, just aft of a large blue head wearing a helmet with a large, backward-swept plume. The tail is almost reversed, white ant the base and deep blue at the top, seperated by a series of white, blue, and red stripes. Overlaid on the tail is the image of a seated woman carrying a trident vertically in her left hand, her right hand holding a circular shield bearng a blue and white variant of the Union Flag, her head covered with the helmet mentioned earlier. The left side of the plane has an airbridge attached to door just forward of the wing. There is a light blue, low-slung truck attached to the nose wheel by a long pole. In the foreground is a black chainlink fence, with a couple of luggage carts parked to the lower left of the frame. Above it all, the sky is a flat grey. — G-BYAD, Boeing 757-204, Britannia, parked on Gate 201 at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 21st May 2023

Posted on May 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 4 propellor-engined, high winged airliner flying from left to right with it's nose raised as it climbs away from an airport. The plane is mostly white, with "Brymon European" titles on the lower fuselage, while the rear fuselage and tail have a thick yellow band and smaller dark and light blue bands, with "Brymosn" titles on the yellow band. In the background, the sky is a rather dirty grey. — G-BRYC, De Haviland Canada, DHC-7-102, Brymon European, taking off from Runway 28L at London Heathrow, some time in the early 1990s.

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