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Photo of the Day 30th November 2023

Posted on November 30, 2023November 29, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a red, twin propellor-engined airliner with a yellow cheatline running along the body and white "Royal Mail Skynet" titles on the upper forward fuselage, parked facing to the left, with a large black hangar in the background. — G-BEJE, Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Series 1, Emerald Airways, in Royal Mail Skynet colours, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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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 25th November 2023

Posted on November 25, 2023November 24, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner, being pushed back from it's stand by a blue truck attached to the nose wheel. In the background is a busy scene from an airport, with many planes parked in various areas, under a cloudy white sky. — N78003, Boeing 777-224ER, Continental Airlines, being pushed back from it’s stand at London Gatwick, some time after November 1998.

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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 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 18th November 2023

Posted on November 18, 2023November 16, 2023 by mancavgeek

N803DE, McDonnell Douglas MD11, Delta Air Lines, at London Gatwick, some time in the late 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 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 11th November 2023

Posted on November 11, 2023November 12, 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 bottom half, with red cheatlines running along the body, and red "Lauda" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail has a pair of red capital letter "L"s, one nestled in the angle of the other. In the background, a red and white metal barrier seperates two taxiways, with grass beyond that. — OE-ILG, Boeing 737-3Z9, Lauda Air, at London Gatwick, 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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