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Photo of the Day 5th November 2023

Posted on November 5, 2023November 3, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane has a white top half with a grey belly, seperated with a thick light blue stripe with thinner yellow and red stripes at the bottom, and a dark blue stripe at the top, sweeping up in to the tail. There are blue "Olympic" titles on the upper fuselage. In the background, a grey terminal with yellow airbridges, some attached to grey planes, is on the upper right of the frame, and with a couple of hangars, one blue, one brown, with some bizjets parked in front. Hi-rise buildings in the distance dominate the left of the frame, under a grey sky. — SX-BEI, Airbus A300B4-103, Olympic Airways, at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 22nd August 2023

Posted on August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 by mancavgeek

Rear view of a 3 engined jet airliner parked facing away from the camera and slightly to the right in front of a wide, light-brown building. The plane is mostly white, with a silver belly. There are large red "swissair" titles on the upper forward fuselage, just ahead of large grey "asia" titles. The tail and central engine are a scarlet red, with some white Chinese characters in the middle. There are vehicles, luggage containers, and freight pallets scattered around the plane. There is a grey airbridge coming out of the building behind the plane, which is attached to the left side of the plane, with a blue plaque with "A44" in light brown letters just above it. — HB-IWN, McDonnell Douglas MD11, Swissair Asia, parked on gate A44 at Zurich Kloten, 28th September 1996.

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Photo of the Day 15th August 2023

Posted on August 15, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a single engined light aircraft parked on grass, facing to the right. The plane is mostly red, with cream upper surfaces and tail. The plane has a fixed undercarriage, with white spats with a red stripe covering the main wheels, under the wings. The top of the nose, over the engine, is painted black in front of the cockpit. The outer 1/3rd of the wings is raked upwards to a significant degree. In the background, trees mark the airfields perimeter, under a blue sky. — G-AZVL, Jodel D-119, at City Airport Manchester/Barton, 3rd June 2023.

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Photo of the Day 6th August 2023

Posted on August 6, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a very large 4 engined passenger airliner being towed from left to right on a taxiway by a dark blue and grey tug. The plane is mostly white, with the top of the nose cone painted black, a reversed US flag between the upper and lower deck windows on the forward fuselage, and large black "Evergreen" titles over the front of the wings. The registration "N470EV" is painted prominently on the upper rear fuselage. In the background, a grey building is right up against a large concrete retaining wall, with houses, a church, and some tower blocks behind it, under a blue-grey sky. — N470EV, Boeing 747-273C, Evergreen International, being towed along a taxiway at London Heathrow, 28th July 1995.

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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 24th July 2023

Posted on July 24, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a low altitude, with the undercarriage lowered, flaps extended from the rear of the wing, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with a red and yellow stripe running from below the fuselage, sweeping backwards to cover most of the rear fuselage and tail. There are red "Hainan Airlines" titles in both Chinese and English on the upper forward fuselage. There are yellow swirls on the red tail, as well as on the upturned wingtips. behind, the sky is a mix of grey and white clouds. — B-5979, Airbus A330-243, Hainan Airlines, shortly after taking off from Runway23R at Manchester Airport, 13th March 2017.

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Bonus Photo of the Day 19th July 2023

Posted on July 19, 2023 by mancavgeek

G-OOBA, Boeing 757-28A, TUI, on final approach to Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 23rd May 2019.

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Photo of the Day 18th July 2023

Posted on July 18, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a single engined light aircraft parked facing to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a thick brown stripe covering most of the upper fuselage and thin orange and red stripes running along the middle of the body. The same design covers the spats over the fixed undercarriage, as well as on the tail. In the background, the rain-covered apron stretches off into the distance, giving way to grass which runs off to the airfield perimeter, vanishing in to the rain. — G-BIDP, Piper PA28-181 Cherokee Archer II, parked at Liverpool Speke, 22nd January 1993.

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Photo of the Day 27th June 2023

Posted on June 27, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor engined business aircraft moving from right to left, with the nose lifted slightly off the ground as it rotates off the runway. The plane is mostly white, with a thin blue and gold stripe running along the body from the nose, widening behind the cabin windows, before sweeping up to occupy most of the tail. The registration "G-LYDF" is on the tail in large golden letters. In the background is a large grey-brown hanger, behind which is a white jet airliner with "Avro RJX" titles on the forward fuselage. — G-LYDF, Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain, taking off from Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 15th March 2017.

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Photo of the Day 23rd June 2023

Posted on June 23, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from right to left at very low level, with undercarriage extended, flaps deployed from the rear of the wing, and the nose raised steeply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with large "Air Transat" titles in blue on the forward fuselage. The rear fuselage and tail are dark blue, with the outline of a light blue star on the tail, while the body has the word "Welcome", in English, and in several other languages. In the background is a large terminal building, with a couple of orange and white planes parked in front, the lowest part of which is partially obscured by the heat haze from the hot engine exhaust. The sky is a rather ominous grey. — C-GTSH, Airbus A310-308, Air Transat, taking off from Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 26th January 2018.

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