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Photo of the Day 26th January 2024.

Posted on January 26, 2024January 26, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, yellow, and blue, 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left, with a wide black hangar with several lifght aircraft in front in the background, under a grim grey sky. — CS-TKB, Boeing 727-2J4, Air Columnbus, taxiing out to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in 1992 or 1993.

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Photo of the Day 14th January 2024.

Posted on January 14, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white and green, twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right at a busy airport, with a grey and yellow terminal building with some planes parked in front in the background, under a grey sky. — I-BUSH, Airbus A300B4-203, Alitalia, at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 9th January 2024.

Posted on January 9, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a red and white 4 engined jet freighter flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land, with grey clouds filling the rest of the frame. — N_____, Douglas DC8-70, Emery Air Fright, in basic DHL colours, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 5th January 2024.

Posted on January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white and red, 3 engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered and flaps deployed from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is just about to land. — YL-LAB, Tupolev TU-154B-2, LatAvio, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990’s.

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Photo of the Day 4th January 2024.

Posted on January 4, 2024January 3, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white and red, twin engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered, and flaps extended from the rear of the wing, obviously about to land, with a bright but hazy sky filling the rest of the frame. — HB-INR, McDonnell Douglas MD82, Swissair, in basic Balaircolours, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 3rd January 2024.

Posted on January 3, 2024January 2, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white and blue twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, withit's wheels lowered and flaps extended from behind the wings, suggesting it is just about to land, with grey sky filling the rest of the frame. — G-BFVB, Boeing 737-204(A), Ambassador Airways, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time between March and December 1994, as seen from the Airport Hotel pub.

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Photo of the Day 2nd January 2024.

Posted on January 2, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, high-winged, twin propellor engined airliner taxiing from right to left and slightly away from the camera, with a white car in the foreground, and large patches of grass in the background. — G-BIFH, Shorts SD3-30-100, Gill Airways, at Manchester Airport, some time between September 1990 and April 1995.

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Photo of the Day 31st December 2023.

Posted on December 31, 2023December 26, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white and blue, high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right at a slightly misty airport. — LX-LGC, Fokker F50, Luxair, at London Heathrow some time in the 1990s, as seen from the rooftop teracces on the Queens Building.

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Photo of the Day 29th December 2023.

Posted on December 29, 2023December 26, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a very long and thin white and grey 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from leftto to right, under a bright but hazy sky. — EI-TLC, Douglas DC-8-73, TransLift Airways, taxiing to it’s gate at Manchester Airport, some time between April 1992 and March 1994.
I’m not sire if the pair of Transair Cambodia HS748’s parked in the top right corner of the frame ever ended up being delivered, they were there for a long time!

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Photo of the Day 24th December 2023.

Posted on December 24, 2023December 22, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, blue, and red, twin engined jet airliner, with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left, with a coupple of dark blue and grey on the far side of a runway. — F-GPXA, Fokker F100, Air Inter, at London Heathrow, some time after June 1996.

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