Tag: RAFMuseum

Photo of the Day 13th September 2023

Posted on September 13, 2023September 12, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a helicopter parked facing to the right. The body is light grey, with a purple belly, and a double red stripe stipe running along the body, sweeping up in to the tail. The registration "G-PACO" is on the engine pods, on the top of the fuselage. One of the cockpit doors is open, with a person standing beside the nose.In the foreground, a large pile of cut grass has been discarded in the lower right corner of the frame, while in the background, green metal fencessurround the landing pad, with a large expanse of grass where the rest of the airfield is, with trees vanishing into haze in the distance, under a hazy grey sky. — G-PACO, Sikorsky S-76C, parked at City Airport Manchester/Barton, 29th November 2022.

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Photo of the Day 21st August 2023

Posted on August 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a helicopter facing to the right. The fuselage is mostly yellow, with purple bands under the belly, and a purple tail. There are purple "North West Air Ambulance Charity" titels on the forward door, and the web address "www.nwaa.net" on the rear door. The registration "G-NWAE"is displayed prominently displayed on the tail boom. In the background, trees with yellow leaves almost block the grey sky. — G-NWAE, Eurocopter EC-135T-2, North West Air Ambulance, at City Airport Manchester/Barton, 29th November 2022.

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Photo of the Day 14th August 2023

Posted on August 14, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with blue "aurigny" titles on the forward fuselage. The rear fuselage fades rapidly from white to yellow, with blue "Channel Islands" titles. The tail is also yellow, with an image of a flying black and yellow bird. The engine pods are yellow, with a white flag with a red cross and a golden insignia in the middle. In the foreground, there are signs planted in the grass, the front faces being orange, all other sides are yellow. In the background, large grass areas are seperated by stretches of tarmac, some of which have red and white barriers with red lights on top, indicating that some of the taxiways are shut. Trees show the perimeter of the airfield, with a hill fading in to haze under a grey sky. — G-VZON, ATR72-500, Aurigny, taxiing out to cross Runway 23R on it’s way to 23L at Manchester Airport, 10th January 2017.

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Photo of the Day 10th August 2023

Posted on August 10, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a dark green band around the rear fuselage and tail, with a thin, bright green band just in front of it. There are dark green "Aer Lingus" titles on the upper forward fuselage, just in front of a bright green leafy plant. The engines are also this dark green. In the background, a twin engined jet airliner is parked on the left of the frame, in front ofa couple of grey buildings, with luggage containers lined up in front of it. — EI-LRE, Airbus A321-253NX, Aer Lingus, taxiing to the active runway at Manchester Airport, 17th January 2023.

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Photo of the Day 17th July 2023

Posted on July 17, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a single propellor-engined aircraft with a rotory wing on display in a museum, facing to the left. The plane is mostly silver, with a black cover on the engine at the front. There are 2 open cockpits, one behind the other, for the 2 occupants, with 4 metal struts extending upwards from the corners around the forward cockpit to an aerodynamic cover which holds the rotor hub for the rotary wing. the undercarriage has 3 struts securing each forward mainwheel to the fuselage. There is a large blue, white, and red roundel on the side of the fuselage, with another on the top of the fuselage directly above, , with the serial "k4232" next to it. In the background, white support beams for the roof are visible, with other aircraft exhibits dotted around the place. — K4232, Avro 671 Rota I (a license-built Cierva C.30A), Royal Air Force, on display at the RAF Museum, Hendon. 4th March 1996.

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Photo of the Day 8th June 2023

Posted on June 8, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a three engined jet airliner parked at it's gate, facing to the right. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and large blue "Rich International" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail has large blue "RI" titles, with a red flame at the top of the "I". In the background, 5 airliners of different types and colour schemes are also parked on wome of the other gates at this terminal. — N765BE, Lockheed L1011-1-50 TriStar, Rich International, parked on Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, 23rd September 1995.

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Photo of the Day 30th May 2023

Posted on May 30, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner accelerating from left to right on a runway. The plane is mostly white, with blue-green angines and rear fuselage/tail. There are "Aer Lingus" titles and a green shamrock on the upper forward fuselage, and a large green shamrock on the tail. In the foreground, there is a long barrier, alternating red and white sections, dividing up part of a taxiway. In the background is a large ground level cark park visible behind the planes nose and tail, with trees leading up to hills in the background, slowly merging i to haze. — G-EILA, Airbus A330-302, Aer Lingus UK, starting it’s take off roll on Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 6th February 2023.

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Photo of the Day 19th May 2023

Posted on May 19, 2023May 19, 2023 by mancavgeek

Head-on view of a 4 engined jet airliner, with the engines buried in the wing roots. The plane has a grey belly and a white upper section, with a dark blue line covering the cockpit windows seperating the two. The engine intakes have red covers on them. Behind, there is a a large green hangar. — G-APAS, De Haviland DH106 Comet 1XB, in BOAC colours*, on display at the RAF Museum, Cosford , 5th February 1996.
*This never actually flew with BOAC, instead it spent it’s career with Air France, then the RAF.

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Photo of the Day 25th April 2023

Posted on April 25, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white four engined high-winged jet airliner flying at low level from left to right, withlanding gear and flaps extended, and the nose raised. The plane is mostly white, with red "Swiss" titles on the upper forward fuselage, while the til is mostly red, with a white cross in the middle. In the background is an airport terminal building, with a white twin propellor airliner parked in front. Behind, several blocks of hi-rise buildings are visible over the airport, while above, grey skies loom over everything. — HB-IXP, British Aerospace Avro RJ100, Swiss, taking off from London City Airport, 11th July 2014.

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Photo of the Day 20th April 2023

Posted on April 20, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged 4 engined jet airliner being puhed off it's stand, facing to the left of frame. The plane is white, with a thin red and yellow stripe running along the fuselage, and an anthopomorphised painting of the head of a red bird with a golden beak, wearing a gold crown. The birds beak is open, with it's tonguewaving. The planes registration "SE-DRA" is prominently displayed on the upper rear fuselage, just forward of the aft door. There is a low-slung light blue vehicle with diagonal yellow and black stripes on its rear attached by a blue bar to the nose of the plane, slightly out of frame on the left. Behind is a slightly larger white twin engined jet airliner with a three-tone blue stripe running along the fuselage, swooping up in to the tail where it becomes a flagpole for a waving half British flag,behind which is a terminal building. In the background, large grassed areas give way to trees in the distance, under a grey sky. — SE-DRA, British Aerospace BAe146-200, Malmo Aviation, being pushed back off Gate 9 at Manchester Airport, 5th March 1993.

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