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Photo of the Day 6th November 2023

Posted on November 6, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor engined airliner taxiing from left to right, seen from a slightly elevated viewpoint. The plane is mostly white, with a light blue and grey stripe running along the body, repeated diagonally on the tail. There are large "Luxair" and smaller "Commuter" titles in black on the upper forward fuselage, with the flags of both the EU and Luxembourg a bit further back. The registration "LX-LGL" is on the rear fuselage in black. In the background, grey concrete apron fills most of the screen, with red-painted concrete with yellow hatchingdelineating a non-accessible area in the middle. — LX-LGL, Embraer EMB120 Brasilia, Luxair, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 28th October 2023

Posted on October 28, 2023October 27, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue belly, and blue "Air Liberte" titles on the lower forward fuselage. The tail has a wordcloud in blue and red, with French words such as "libres" (freedom, in English), "en droit" (legally, by law, by right), "egaux" (equal), and others. In the foreground is a metal-framed glass fence, with the tail of another plane beyond that in the bottom right corner of the image. In the background, grass and taxiways give way to trees in the distance, with some buildings visible beyond there. — F-GHEB, McDonnell Douglas MD83, Air Liberte, at London Gatwick, some time in the late 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 21st August 2023

Posted on August 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a helicopter facing to the right. The fuselage is mostly yellow, with purple bands under the belly, and a purple tail. There are purple "North West Air Ambulance Charity" titels on the forward door, and the web address "www.nwaa.net" on the rear door. The registration "G-NWAE"is displayed prominently displayed on the tail boom. In the background, trees with yellow leaves almost block the grey sky. — G-NWAE, Eurocopter EC-135T-2, North West Air Ambulance, at City Airport Manchester/Barton, 29th November 2022.

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Photo of the Day 9th May 2023

Posted on May 9, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a large twin engined bizjet facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a blue stripe sweeping from below the fuselage just in front of the wing, over the wing, and sweeping upo to cover the entire tail, where there is a large pink infinity symbol. There are small "Zetta Jet" titles along with a small pink infinity symbol on the planes nose, just under the cockpit windows. There is a strip of green grass with wild flowers in the foreground, with more patches of grasson the right and left of the plane in the near background. Further back, there are larger planes parked iun front of a terminal building, with a large building including the control tower on the left of frame. Behind it all, the sky is a pale hazy blue. — N246ZJ, Bombardier Global 6000, Zetta Jet, being pushed back from the Executive apron at Manchester Airport, 4th October 2017.

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Photo of the Day 13th April 2023

Posted on April 13, 2023April 13, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a three engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left just behind a construction site. The planes body and tail is mostly white, with a yellow and red stripe running from the upper forward fuselage down to the cabin windows, then along the body to the rear, while the tail has large letters "iB" in red and yellow respectively, with a golden crown in the top part of the "i". The red stripe on the forward fuselage has white "Iberia" titles. In the background, grassed areas give way to fields and trees, leading off in to the hazy distance. — EC-DDZ, Boeing 727-256, Iberia, taxiing past the construction site that would soon become the British Airways terminal (and later T3) at Manchester Airport, some time in the mid 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 29th December 2022

Posted on December 29, 2022 by mancavgeek

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Photo of the Day 20th December 2022

Posted on December 20, 2022 by mancavgeek

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Photo of the Day 6th November 2022

Posted on November 6, 2022November 9, 2022 by mancavgeek

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Photo of the Day 28th October 2022

Posted on October 28, 2022 by mancavgeek

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