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Photo of the Day 1st December 2023

Posted on December 1, 2023November 29, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, and black "Scandinavian" titles on the upper forward fuselage, above red, black, white, yellow, and blue half-bands running under the fuselage, and large black "SAS" titles on the tail, accelerating from right to left, with a large grey-brown building in the backgroiund, under a grey-blue sky. — LN-RLS, Douglas DC9-41, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, accelerating down Runway 24 for take off at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 28th November 2023

Posted on November 28, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined, grey jet airliner with a dark blue belly and tail, taxiing from left to right. In the background, a large expanse of grass leads up to trees in the distance. — G-MANS, British Aerospace 146-200, British Airways Express, at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990’s.

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Photo of the Day 24th November 2023

Posted on November 24, 2023November 23, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined white jet airliner with blue "Air France" titles on the upper forward fuselage and diagonal blue and red stripes on the tail taxiing from left to right. — G-GINL, Boeing 737-53C, Air France, at Frankfurt Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

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Photo of the Day 21st November 2023

Posted on November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 4 engined cargo plane taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a red, orange, and yellow cheatline swooping down from above the forward fuselage, then running along the middle of the body, with white "Iberia Cargo" titles overlaid towards the front. The tail is white, with the large letters "IB" in red and yellow, respectively, , and the registratyion "EC-EMO" at the top of the tail. In the background, a large grey hangar with blue "British Airways" titles fills the right side of the frame, with a brown brisk tower with a glazed top floor on the right, next to a low building with large red glazed doors and a white roof. Behind that, a large, green, metal box-like structure reaches into the grey sky. — EC-EMD, Douglas DC8-62F, Iberia Cargo, taxiing to the cargo apron at Manchester Airport, 15th January 1996.

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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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Photo of the Day 23rd October 2023

Posted on October 23, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner moving from right to left with flaps and slats deployed from the rear and front of the wings respectively, lift dumpers on the tops of the wings, and thrust reversers on the engines open, suggesting this has just landed. The plane is mostly white, with blue swooshes on the lower forward fuselage, as well as along most of the upper fuselage, sweeping up into the tail where it meets a black swoosh. There is a smaller black and blue swoosh on the upper forward fuselage, just ahead of black "tailwind" titles. The same black and blue swoosh is on the engine cowlings. Green grass fills the foreground, withtrees and bushes filling most of the background, and an electricity pylon poking through and looming over everything. There is a person in the distance below the planes wing on the right of the frame who appears to be taking a photo of this plane landing. — TC-TLB, Boeing 737-4Q8, Tailwind Airlines, during it’s landing roll on Runway 05 Right at Manchester Airport, 9th September 2015.

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Photo of the Day 22nd October 2023

Posted on October 22, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from tight to left at a low altitude, with flaps deployed from behind the wings, slats from the fro t, and the undercarriage fully extended, suggesting it is just about to land. The plane is mostly white, with a large blue and black birds head covering g most of the forward fuselage, with a similar head on the black tail. There are large "EgyptAir" titles on the mid fuselage, over the wings, with the same titles repeated on the white engine pods, this time in an Arabic script. Behind, grey sky fills the rest of the frame. — SU-GDU, Airbus A330-343, Egyptair, on final approach to Runway 27 Left at London Heathrow, 11th July 2014.

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Photo of the Day 19th October 2023

Posted on October 19, 2023October 18, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, 4 jet-engined cargo plane, parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and a thick blue stripe running along the fuselage, as well as "Aeroflot" titles in a Russian script on the upper forward fuselage. The tail is white, with the registration "RA-76529" at the base, and a Russian flag (equal white, blue, and red horizontal stripes) outlines in black in the middle. The wings have 2 engines suspended under neath them - the outer engine on this side is a standard jet engine, but the inner engine has been replaced with one with 8 very curved grey propellor blades. The lower half of the nose cone is extensively glazed, bulging down below the rest of the body. There is a blue and grey airport tug attached to the planes nose wheel by a long yellow pole. Green grass fills the foreground, with rows of trees in the background, under a blue-grey sky. — RA-76529, Ilyushin Il76LL, Zhukovski Research Institute but in Aeroflot colours, at Farnborough Air Show, 10th September 1994.
This plane was being used as a testbed for the D-236 propfan engine, the inner left engine having been replaced with an experimental unit.

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Photo of the Day 9th October 2023

Posted on October 9, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with the undercarriage extended, flaps deployed from the rear of the wings, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The body is almost completely white, with "AIRFRANCE" titles on the upper forward fuselage, next to a short red ribbon, and the registration "F-GKXM" on the upper rear fuselage. The tail has a seris of 4 diagonal blue lines, each thinner than the previous, and a thicker red line, with a circle of gold stars in the upper left corner. In the background, blue-grey sky fills the rest of the frame. — F-GKXM, Airbus A320-214, Air France, seconds after taking off from Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 25th March 2015.

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Photo of the Day 3rd October 2023

Posted on October 3, 2023October 2, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined aitrliner moving at high speed from right to left. The plane is mostly purple, with yellow and red bands around the rear fuselage, and a white tail extending down over the tail cone. There are large white "flybe" titles over 5 white dots on the forward fuselage, with white "Faster than road or rail" titles on the outside of the purple engine pods. There are diagonal "flybe" titles in 2 shades of blue on the tail , over 5 dots of varying colours. The registration "G-JEDP" is on the tailcone in black. Grass fills the foreground, while in the background, a pair of large grey hangars dominate the centre of the screen, with a green metal structure on the left of the frame, and an out-of-focus terminal building on the right. Above everything, the sky is a flat grey. — G-JEDP, De Haviland Canada DHC-8-402Q Dash 8, Flybe, accelerating for take off on Runway 23L at Manchester Airport, 13th March 2017.

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