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Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with bright green engine pods, flying from left to right over the camera at a very low altitude, with undercarriage stowed away, flaps deployed from behind the wings, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off, with vivd blue sky filling the rest of the frame.

Photo of the Day 27th March 2024.

Posted on March 27, 2024March 26, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Side view of a white and blue, 3 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left, with a grey and yellow terminal with a lot of grey and dark blue planes attached in the background, under a grim, grey sky.

Photo of the Day 10th March 2024.

Posted on March 10, 2024March 10, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Photo of the Day 7th February 2024.

Posted on February 7, 2024February 6, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a high-winged, 4 propellor-engined, white and grtey cargo plane parked facing to the right and away from the camera, with a large grey hangar in the background. — N923SJ, Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules, Southern Air Transport, at Manchester Airport, 14th May 1994.

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Photo of the Day 10th December 2023

Posted on December 10, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined, silver jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude and with the nose raised very sharply, suggesting it has just taken off, with grey sky in the background. — N1750B, McDonnell Douglas MD11, American Airlines, leaping off Runway 10Right at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 30th November 2023

Posted on November 30, 2023November 29, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a red, twin propellor-engined airliner with a yellow cheatline running along the body and white "Royal Mail Skynet" titles on the upper forward fuselage, parked facing to the left, with a large black hangar in the background. — G-BEJE, Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Series 1, Emerald Airways, in Royal Mail Skynet colours, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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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 5th August 2023

Posted on August 5, 2023 by mancavgeek

TC-JHE, Boeing 737-8F2, Turkish Airlines, crossing the airport perimeter after taking off from Runway 08R at London Gatwick, 12th September 2014.

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Photo of the Day 30th June 2023

Posted on June 30, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a very large 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and thick green and red stripes running along the body from the nose, covering the lower deck passenger windows. There is a large, red piece of Arabic script on the upper forward fuselage, transliterating into English as Royal Air Morocco". On the tail, there is the green outline of a 5-pointed star, with a red src for a tail, above the red letters "RAM". In the background is a tall lighting pole looming over the plane, with a sprawling white building and a couple more lighting poles further back, with hazy trees in the background. — CN-RMS, Boeing 747SP-44, Royal Air Maroc, taxiing at Paris Orly, 1st November 1993.

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Photo of the Day 19th June 2023

Posted on June 19, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor engined airliner parked inside an airport terminal building, facing to the right. The plane is mostly cream coloured, with a thick red stripe running along the body, as well on the top of the engines, and the wingtips. There is a mannequin sitting in the planes cockpit, and a cardboard black and white cut-out figurepropped up by the tail. In the foreground, some white seats have been taped together, with some rolls of green material in metal cages are behind them, under the planes nose. Above, part of the roofs structure can be seen, with concrete beams surrounded by metal supports. — D-IGUN, De Haviland DH.89A Dragon Rapide, part of the Air Classik collection, inside Terminal 1 at Frankfurt Airport, next to the entrance to the Zuschauerterrasse (Spectator Terraces), 16th October 1993.
Apparently, this had been removed from the roof after being sold to a private owner looking to use as spares to rebuild another Rapide.

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Photo of the Day 31st May 2023

Posted on May 31, 2023 by mancavgeek

Low side view of a twin engined bizjet flying from left to right at low altitude, with it's wheels down and flaps deployed behind the wings. The plane is mostly white, with a red and grey stripe running along the body. The registration "D-IMVK" is visible below the left wing, as well as partially obscured on the engines. behind the plane, the sky is a flat white. — D-IMVK, Cessna 525A CitationJet CJ2, Excellent Air, on final approach to Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 18th May 2023.

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