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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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Photo of the Day 2nd August 2023

Posted on August 2, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with red "Austrian" titles just aft of a stylised red flying bird that looks a bit like an arrowhead. The tail is red, with a thick white ctripe with another red stylised bird in the middle. The engine pods mounted under the wings are red, with white "austrian.com" titles. In the foreground, an expanse of grass leads up to the runway, while a large control tower peeks out from above the planes cockpit. by a large grey hangar on the left of the frame. Above everything else, the sky is a hazy grey-blue. — OE-LWC, Embraer ERJ190-200LR, Austrian Airlines, turning on to Runway 23L for departure at Manchester Airport, 15th May 2019.

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PHoto of the Day 22nd May 2023

Posted on May 22, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right with it's undercarriage lowered and flaps deployed from behind the wing, and it's nose raised fairly steeply. The plane has a sky blue belly, the rest being white. There are large "Flybe" titles in light and dark blue on the forward fuselage above some multi-coloured dots, and larger similar titles on the tail and rear fuselage. Behind, the sky is fiding from a clear blue at the top to a hazy white at the bottom. — G-FBJJ, Embraer ERJ170-200, Flybe, climbing out of Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 4th June 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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