Tag: QatarAirways

Photo of the Day 26th August 2023

Posted on August 26, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner being pushed back from it's stand at London Gatwick, some time in the 1990s. The plane is mostly white, with a silver belly, a series of green stripes running along the lower body from just behind the nose, with an embedded white letter "T" at the front of the stripes. There are diagonal black and green "Transavia" titles on the tail, as well as smaller titles on the white engine pods. There is a yellow tow bar attached to the nose wheel, with 2 people walking alongside the plane, one by the planes nose, the other outboard of the right engine. In the background, a thin trip of grass seperates the apron area from a taxiway.There is a red and white metal blast barrieralongside the taxiway, with a small building site on the taxiway, alternating red and white blocks surrounding an orange cement truck and some other equipment. Grassed areas intersected by a runway run right up to the top of the frame. — PH-HVT, Boeing 737-3K2, Transavia, at London Gatwick, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 23rd July 2023

Posted on July 23, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying at low level with the undercarriage lowered, and the flaps extended from the rear of the wing, suggesting it is coming in to land. The plane is mostly white, with large "Air Serbia" titles on the forward fuselage. The engines are white oon the bottoe, with a red top, and a blue stripe in between them. The tail ahas a red top and blue bottom, with the outline of a double-headed eagle in the middle. Behind, the sky is a flat grey. — YU-APC, Airbus A319-131, Air Serbia, on final approach to Runway 09L at London Heathrow, 18th March 2016.

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Photo of the Day 28th April 2023

Posted on April 28, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a very large 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane's body is mostly white, with a red stripe running from the nose to the rear covering the lower deck cabin windows. Below the stripe on the forward fuselage, there are "Qatar Airways" titles in English, repeated avbove the stripe in a much larger Arabic script. The tail is red, with an image if a white goat with 2 horns on the back of its head, in front of the white outline of a circle. In the background, the right side of the frame is dominated by a large grey hangar with "BritishAirways" titles in the top left corner, above a thin red stripe which runs the length of the building. The left side of thebackground of the frame contains a large green metal structrure with grey supports sticking out at an angle. Above it all, the sky is a murky grey. — A7-ABK, Boeing 747SR-81, Qatar Airways, taxiing to the terminal at Manchester Airport, 26th August 1995.

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Photo of the Day 18th December 2022

Posted on December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 by mancavgeek

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