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Side view of a white and dark bluyem, 4 engined jet airliner with a yellow, red, and blue tail, taxiing from left to ruight, with a pair of dark grtey and dark blue planes in the backgrouynd, with tree covered hills in the background.

Photo of the Day 13th April 2024.

Posted on April 13, 2024April 14, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Side view of a white, red, and blue, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right, with another, slightly larger white and red plane in the background.

Photo of the Day 12th March 2024.

Posted on March 12, 2024March 13, 2024 by mancavgeek

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Photo of the Day 20th January 2024.

Posted on January 20, 2024January 19, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, blue, and red twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right on a rainy day, with lots of puddles creating reflections on the ground. — G-BVNM, Boeing 737-4S3, Dan Air, at a rather damp and hazy London Gatwick, 1992.

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Photo of the Day 10th January 2024.

Posted on January 10, 2024January 10, 2024 by mancavgeek

Side view of a large, white, 4 engined jet airliner with a red and white tail, flying from left to right at a low altitude, with wheels lowered and flaps extended from behind the wings, suggesting it is just about to land, with a grey sky filling the rest of the frame. — G-VWEB, Airbus A340-642, Virgin Atlantic, sailing over Myrtle Avenue on final approach to Runway 27L at London Heathrow, 11th July 2014.

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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 14th December 2023.

Posted on December 14, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, and a blue tail, parked facing to the right, with red and white hoardingsjust behind it, and grass and taxiways leading off into the distance. — D-ACLC, Canadair CRJ-200LR, Lufthansa, at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

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Photo of the Day 3rd December 2023

Posted on December 3, 2023December 1, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a white and blue, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, parked facing to the right, with a set of buildt-in airstairs deployed from the rear, between the engines, in front of a terminal building, with a white and orange jet airliner parked next to it. — SL-ABE, McDonnell Douglas MD81, Adria Airways, at London Heathrow, some time between April 1992 and April 1993, as seen from the roof terrace on The Queens Building.

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Photo of the Day 15th November 2023

Posted on November 15, 2023November 15, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage taxiing from right to left, The plane has a white top half and bare metal lower half, seperated by a blue cheatline running over the passenger cabin windows. There are blue "Lufthansa" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and black "Boeing 727" titles on the side mounted engine pods. The tail is a dark blue, with a large yellow circle containing a blue bird with wings outstretched flying from right to left, abnd the registration "D-ADPI" on the centre engine intake. Concrete apron fills most of the rest of the frame, with a couple of white airbridges sticking out, one of which at the top of the frame has a white plane with a blue and white tail attached. In the distance, right at the top of the frame, a red, brown, and white building is at the edge of the apron, with trees behind under a light pink sky. — D-ADPI, Boeing 727-230, Lufthansa, at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s, taken at a fairly extreme angle to try and fit the whole thing in – I had borrowed a pentax SLR with a 70-210 zoom from a friend, and could really have done with a 50mm (possibly a 35mm!) lens for this shot from this point.

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Photo of the Day 25th October 2023

Posted on October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude, with the undercarriage being tucked away, flaps extended from the rear of the wing, and the nose raised significantly, suggesting that it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with dark blue "Virgin Atlantic" titles on the forward fuseelage and under the belly. The tail is bright red, with white "Virgin" titles in a pseudo-handwritten font. The engine pods are the same bright red. In the background, the sky is a bright but hazy blue. — EI-EZW, Airbus A320-214, Virgin Atlantic, seconds after leaping off Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 27th September 2013.

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Photo of the Day 24th October 2023

Posted on October 24, 2023 by mancavgeek

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly purple, with yellow, red, and white bands around the rear fuselage, the white extending up to fill the tail. There are large white "flybe" titles on the forward fuselage above a series of large white dots, with smaller white "operated by Loganair" titles below, and white "Spirit of Lewis" titles under the nose. The engine pods are purple, and have white "Think in minutes not miles" titles in white. The registration "G-LGNA" is on the rear fuselage in white. The white tail has diagonal "flybe" titles in light and dark blue, above a series of 6 coloured dots. In the background, grass and taxiways lead off to trees in the distance, under a hazy blue sky. — G-LGNA, Saab SF340B, Flybe, operated by Loganair, taxiing past the Aviation Viewing Park after landing on Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 19th May 2016.

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