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Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with large, blue, billboard-style "Adria" titles on the fuselage, taxiing from right to left, with the thrust reversers on the engines open, suggesting it has just landed. Grass fills the foreground, while trees on the skyline meet the bright but hazy sky.

Photo of the Day 30th May 2024.

Posted on May 30, 2024May 26, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Side view of a white, high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner, taxiing from right to left, with a runway bounded by grass in the background, and low grey buildings in the distance.

Photo of the Day 15th March 2024.

Posted on March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Photo of the Day 11th January 2024.

Posted on January 11, 2024January 10, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a large, bulbous, white twin engined jet cargo aircraft, flying from left to right at a low altitude, with flaps extended below the wings, but the undercarriage still tucked away, suggesting this is a low speed flyby at an airshow, with the obligatory grey Manchester sky filling the background. — F-GSTC/3, Airbus A300B4-608ST Super Transporter (Beluga), Airbus Transport International, performing a fly-by at Woodford Airshow, 6th June 1998, while on it’s way to nearby Chester to pick up wings for transporting to Toulouse.

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Photo of the Day 11th December 2023.

Posted on December 11, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, 4 engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, blue "Cubana" titles on the lower forward fuselage, and a red and blue tail, taxiing from right to left, with various hangars and other airport buildings in the background, with trees beyond that vanishing in to haze. — CU-T1280, Ilyushin Il62M, Cubana, taxiing out to the actiive runway at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 11th September 2023

Posted on September 11, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor engined airliner taxiing from left to right after landing on a runway. The plane is mostly white, with red "euromanx.com" on the lower rear fuselage, and "Manx" titles on the lower forward fuselage. The registration "OE-HBB" is on the rear fuselage in black, next to an Austrian flag (equal red-white-red horizontal bands). The tail and engine pods are red, with 3 goldenn, armoured legs, joined at the hip and running in a circle on the tail. In the foreground, the lower quarter of the frame is a grey building, with grass beyond that running to the runway. In the background, large grassed areas lead off to trees at the airfield perimeter. On the middle right of the frame, a large brown brick building with a sloping black roof is visible. Rolling hills beyond that slowly vanish in to the hazy grey sky. — OE-HBB, De Haviland Canada DHC8-201Q Dash 8, Euromanx, landing on Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, 20th January 2006.

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Photo of the Day 6th September 2023

Posted on September 6, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner accellerating from right to left on a runway. The plane is mostly white, with very small "Stobart Air" titles on the forward door, and just aft of the rear door. The registration "EI-FMK" is on the upper rear fuselage, just forward of the rear door, and just aft of an Irish flag (equal green, white, and orange vertical bands). Grass fills the foreground, while in the background, red and white banded metal towers are behind the plane, made blurry by panning the camera, with trees in the far distance, under a grey sky. — EI-FMK, ATR72-600, Stobart Air, operating for Aer Lingus, starting it’s take off roll on Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 13th March 2017.

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Photo of the Day 21st May 2023

Posted on May 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 4 propellor-engined, high winged airliner flying from left to right with it's nose raised as it climbs away from an airport. The plane is mostly white, with "Brymon European" titles on the lower fuselage, while the rear fuselage and tail have a thick yellow band and smaller dark and light blue bands, with "Brymosn" titles on the yellow band. In the background, the sky is a rather dirty grey. — G-BRYC, De Haviland Canada, DHC-7-102, Brymon European, taking off from Runway 28L at London Heathrow, some time in the early 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 8th May 2023

Posted on May 8, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a very large 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with large "Corsair" titles on the forward fuselage. The tail has a stylised image of crashing ocean waves in dark blue, light blue, and white. The foreground has part of the roof of the terminal building just popping in to the bottom of the frame, while, the background has a large hangar on the left, large white fuel tanks in the middle, and some random buildings on the right. Above, the sky is a hazy blue, while golden sunlight is streaming across the entire scene, especially the plane. — F-BPVG, Boeing 747-128, Corsair, taxiing to it’s gate at Manchester Airport, 28th October 1995.

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Photo of the Day 24th February 2023

Posted on February 24, 2023 by mancavgeek

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Photo of the Day 31st January 2023

Posted on January 31, 2023 by mancavgeek

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