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Photo of the Day 8th September 2023

Posted on September 8, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 4 engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with undercarriage lowered, and flaps extended from the rear of the wings. The way the main wheels are angled suggests theat it is just about to land. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue belly, and a thick grey stripe running along the belly, swooping over the wings and up in to the tail. The engine pods are also dark blue. Grass fills the foreground, while most of the background is made up of trees on the far side of the airfield. with a radar tower visible on a nearby hillside near the centre of the frame. The sky is a flat white. — CS-TFX, Airbus A340-542, HiFly, seconds from landing on Runway 05L at Manchester Airport, 1st October 2015.

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Photo of the Day 27th April 2023

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

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing past a large grey hangar with it's doors open. The plane is mostly white, with a gold and red stripe running along most of the body before sweeping up into the base of the tail. There are large red "Kiwi" billboard titles on the forward fuselage, and the red outline of a kiwi (non-flying bird native to New Zealand) on the tail. the3 engines are red, with a thick white stripe through the middle, which itself has a thin gold and red stripe, as on the fuselage. — G-OOOU, Boeing 757-2YO, Kiwi Travel International Airlines, in the basic colours of Air 2000 who they were leasing this plane from, on it’s return from a seasonal lease in New Zealand.

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