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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.

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Photo of the Day 14th November 2023

Posted on November 14, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude with it's undercarriage lowered. The plane is almost entirely white, with a large blue splotch overlaid with a smaller red splotch on the rear fuselage, the same design repeated on the tail, but with the red splotch squared off and with a large white cross in the middle, and the blue splotch having a ring of gold stars in the top left corner. There are blue "Crossair" titles on the upper forward fuselage. In the background, blue sky with wisps of white fill the rest of the frame. — HB-IZY, Saab 2000, Crossair, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time after May 1997.

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Photo of the Day 10th November 2023

Posted on November 10, 2023November 8, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a single engined light aircraft flying from left to right at a low altitude. The plane is mostly white, with a red and yellow cheatline running along the body, with the registration "G-BLTW" overlaid in black on the rear fuselage. The tail is white, with a yellow-red-yellow stripe running from front to back. The planes cockpit has a large bubble canopy, with the sun reflecting strongly off the front. In the background, grey cloud fills the frame, with hints of blue peeking through. — G-BLTW, Slingsby T67 Firefly, on final approach to Runway 24 Manchester Airport, as seen from the Airport Hotel, some time after April 1994.

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Photo of the Day 29th October 2023

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

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the fuselage, flying from left to right at a very low altitude, it's main wheels just a couple of feet above the ground. There are flaps fully extended from behind the wing, and the nose is raised sharply, suggesting it is landing. The plane is mostly white, with blue "Air Littoral" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail has the blue outline of a circle, with 3 stylised blue flying birds inside. Grass fills the foreground, with more grass on the other side of the runway leading up to trees in the distance, with the fuselage of an old 3 engined jet airliner looking rather forlorn in front of them. Above it all, the sky is a flat grey. — F-GIO_, Fokker F100, Air Littoral, about to touch down on Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s, as seen from car park 3.
Notice the Trident looking rather sorry for itself on the fire dump.

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Photo of the Day 23rd October 2023

Posted on October 23, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner moving from right to left with flaps and slats deployed from the rear and front of the wings respectively, lift dumpers on the tops of the wings, and thrust reversers on the engines open, suggesting this has just landed. The plane is mostly white, with blue swooshes on the lower forward fuselage, as well as along most of the upper fuselage, sweeping up into the tail where it meets a black swoosh. There is a smaller black and blue swoosh on the upper forward fuselage, just ahead of black "tailwind" titles. The same black and blue swoosh is on the engine cowlings. Green grass fills the foreground, withtrees and bushes filling most of the background, and an electricity pylon poking through and looming over everything. There is a person in the distance below the planes wing on the right of the frame who appears to be taking a photo of this plane landing. — TC-TLB, Boeing 737-4Q8, Tailwind Airlines, during it’s landing roll on Runway 05 Right at Manchester Airport, 9th September 2015.

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Photo of the Day 20th October 2023

Posted on October 20, 2023 by mancavgeek

Head-on view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing almost directly towards the camera. The plane is mostly white, with red engine pods and tail. The nose-wheel is turned hard to it's left, suggesting that the plane is in the middle of turning that way. In the background, the white and blue rear fuselage and tail with orange and yellow sunburst can be seen in the top left corner, with a set of red airstairs parked near it, while a black chainlink fence runs across the rest of the frame, seperating us from a building right at the back. — G-VEVE, Airbus A350-1041, Virgin Atlantic, at Manchester Airport, 18th May 2023.

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Photo of the Day 17th October 2023

Posted on October 17, 2023 by mancavgeek

G-PITZ, Pitts S-2A Special, at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 28th September 2023

Posted on September 28, 2023September 25, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engoinned jet airliner taxiing from right to left, turning slightly away from the camera. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and blue "FREEBIRD" titles on the upper forward fuselage. There are orange vertical endplates on the wingtips. The tail is orange, with a white circle containing an orange flying bird. green grass fills most of the foreground, as well as a lare bit of background visible under the planes body. There is a large grey hangaron the laft of the frame, behind the planes tail. Above, the sky is a pale blue. — TC-FHC, Airbus A320-214, Freebird, Turning on to Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 15th May 2019.

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Photo of the Day 18th September 2023

Posted on September 18, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is almost entirely blue, with large white billboard-style "Zoom" titles on the forward fuselage, and smaller "www.flyzoom.com" titles on the upper fuselage over the wing, and the registration "C-GZMM" on the upper rear fuselage, next to a Canadian flag (red stripes either side of a white field, with a red maple leaf in the centre). There are large white diagonal "Zoom" titles on the tail. In the background, an array of twin engined airliners are scattered around, nestled among tall lighting poles, with tree marking the edge of the airfield, and an industrial landscape beyond that, under a hazy grey sky. — C-GZMM, Boeing 767-328ER, Zoom, taxiing out to the runway at Manchester Airport, 19th January 2006.

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Photo of the Day 8th September 2023

Posted on September 8, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 4 engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with undercarriage lowered, and flaps extended from the rear of the wings. The way the main wheels are angled suggests theat it is just about to land. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue belly, and a thick grey stripe running along the belly, swooping over the wings and up in to the tail. The engine pods are also dark blue. Grass fills the foreground, while most of the background is made up of trees on the far side of the airfield. with a radar tower visible on a nearby hillside near the centre of the frame. The sky is a flat white. — CS-TFX, Airbus A340-542, HiFly, seconds from landing on Runway 05L at Manchester Airport, 1st October 2015.

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