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Photo of the Day 26th November 2023

Posted on November 26, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined white jet airliner with an orange, red, and blue stripe runnning along the body, moving at high speed along a black runway. In the background, a low grey building with a white roof dominates the middle of the frame, with trees beyond disappearing in to haze in the distance, under a grey sky. — N7642U, Boeing 727-222, United Airlines, braking hard on Runway 23Left at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

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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 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 12th November 2023

Posted on November 12, 2023November 12, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a green and red cheatline running along the fuselage, with some red titles in an Arabic script that transliterate to "Royal Air Maroc" on the upper forward fuselage. The large red letters "RAM" appear on the tail, under the outline of a green 5 pointed star, which appears to be leaving a red trail as it moves in an ovoid counter-clockwise ovoid path.In the foreground, a collection of blue and grey trucks, and metal cargo containers fill the bottom of the frame. In the background, a selection of buildings stretch from side to side, with trees and rolling hills in the background, under a bright but hazy sky with a slight yellow tint. — CN-RMQ, Boeing 727-2B6, RAM Royal Air Maroc, at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

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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 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 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 3rd November 2023

Posted on November 3, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right and slightly towards the camera. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue belly, and thin blue and red stripes on the lower fuselage, and red "Istanbul Airlines" titles on the forward upper fuselage. The tail is dark blue, with a white circle containing an image of a red tulip. In the background, grass and taxiways fill the rest of the screen. — TC-AGA, Boeing 737-4Y0, Istanbul Airlines, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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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 24th October 2023

Posted on October 24, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly purple, with yellow, red, and white bands around the rear fuselage, the white extending up to fill the tail. There are large white "flybe" titles on the forward fuselage above a series of large white dots, with smaller white "operated by Loganair" titles below, and white "Spirit of Lewis" titles under the nose. The engine pods are purple, and have white "Think in minutes not miles" titles in white. The registration "G-LGNA" is on the rear fuselage in white. The white tail has diagonal "flybe" titles in light and dark blue, above a series of 6 coloured dots. In the background, grass and taxiways lead off to trees in the distance, under a hazy blue sky. — G-LGNA, Saab SF340B, Flybe, operated by Loganair, taxiing past the Aviation Viewing Park after landing on Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 19th May 2016.

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