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Side view of a white, twin engined bizjet with a black belly, black tail, black engine pods mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, and black upturned wingtips, flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with flaps extended from the rear of the wings, undercarriage lowered, and the nose raised steeply, suggesting it has just taken off.

Photo of the Day 1st September 2024.

Posted on September 1, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with a stripe in 3 shades of blue running along the fuselage and up in to the tail, with a terminal building in the background, under a flat grey sky.

Photo of the Day 1st May 2024.

Posted on May 1, 2024April 28, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Side view of a small, white, 3 engined jet airliner with a blue tail, taxiing from left to right, with a larger, white jet airliner being towed from right to left in the background.

Photo of the Day 20th March 2024.

Posted on March 20, 2024March 19, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Photo of the Day 7th February 2024.

Posted on February 7, 2024February 6, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, 4 propellor-engined, white and grtey cargo plane parked facing to the right and away from the camera, with a large grey hangar in the background. — N923SJ, Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules, Southern Air Transport, at Manchester Airport, 14th May 1994.

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Photo of the Day 1st October 2023.

Posted on October 1, 2023September 30, 2023 by mancavgeek

Low side view of a 4 engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with landing gear deployed and wheels hanging at random angles, and flaps extended from behind the wings, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is mostly grey, with a creamy-white belly. There are large, maroon, billboard-style "QATAR" titles on the forward fuselage, as well as under the belly. There is the maroon head of a goat like animal with two horns pointing slightly backwards from the top of the head on the tail, with smaller versions on each of the engine pods. Behind, the sky is a flat grey. — A7-AGD, Airbus A340-642, Qatar Airways, flying over Myrtle Avenue on final approach to Runway 27L at London Heathrow, 11th July 2014.

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Photo of the Day 31st August 2023

Posted on August 31, 2023August 30, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined military jet trainer aircraft, with the wings attached to the top of the fuselage and angled down steeply. The plane is mostly covered in a pale green and sandy brown camoglage pattern, with a vivid blue belly. There is a green/white/green roundel on the engine air intake, with a glag made up of green/white/green vertical bars on the tail, above the black serial "NAF477". Under the cockpit, there are downward pointing white and red triangles indicating the location of ejector seats, and yellow and black warning lables indicating some form of emergency switch. The wing has pylons coming down from 2 different points along it's span, with the outer pylon being fitted with a large external fuel tank in the same green and sandy brown upper and blue lower surfaces The cockpit has two seats in a tandem configuration, although only the front seat seems to be occupied. In the baclkground, a terminal building is visible, with the nose of a white airliner poking in to frame on the upper left, and the tailcone of another plane on the upper right. — NAF477, Dassault-Breguet-Dornier Alpha Jet A, Nigerian Air Force, taxiing out to Runway 23L past the Aviation Viewing Park at Manchester Airport on it’s delivery flight to Nigeria.

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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 2nd August 2023

Posted on August 2, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with red "Austrian" titles just aft of a stylised red flying bird that looks a bit like an arrowhead. The tail is red, with a thick white ctripe with another red stylised bird in the middle. The engine pods mounted under the wings are red, with white "austrian.com" titles. In the foreground, an expanse of grass leads up to the runway, while a large control tower peeks out from above the planes cockpit. by a large grey hangar on the left of the frame. Above everything else, the sky is a hazy grey-blue. — OE-LWC, Embraer ERJ190-200LR, Austrian Airlines, turning on to Runway 23L for departure at Manchester Airport, 15th May 2019.

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Photo of the Day 20th July 2023

Posted on July 20, 2023 by mancavgeek

Slight side view of a twin engined jet airliner parked almost nose on to the camera, pointing slightly off to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue belly, with a thin yellow line seperating the 2 sections. There are large, dark blue "Ryanair" titles on the forward fuselage, next to a dark blue winged Irish harp, the same harp being on the dark blue tail in yellow. There is a built in set of stairs coming from the forward door on the other side of the plane., and a thick yellow cable plugged into a hatch in the planes nose, just forward of the nosewheel. Behind, trees mark the airfield perimeter, giving way to a bright blue sky with a single line of cloud. bright sunlight is coming from off to the right of the frame, casting strong shadows on the ground and leaving some of the planes edges sparkling. Not bad for a photo taken with a cellphone. — G-RUKG, Boeing 737-8AS, Ryanair UK, parked on one of the remote stands at the side of Terminal 3 at Manchester Airport, 6th February 2023.

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Photo of the Day 5th July 2023

Posted on July 5, 2023July 5, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with red "Tunisair" titles un the upper middle fuselage in English, and on the upper forward fuselage in an Arabic script. A series of thin red lines come from under the rear fuselage and up into the tail, forming the image of a leaping gazelle. In the background, the original Budapest terminal building can be seen, with trees and other buildings dominating the skyline, under a dismal grey sky. — TS-JHS, Boeing 727-2H3, TunisAir, at Budapest Ferihegy, 1st October 1996.

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