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Photo of the Day 21st January 2026.

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Side view of a twin propellor-engined, World War 2-era bomber aircraft taxiing along a runway from left to right. The plane is covered in an olive-green and grey camouflage scheme, with thick black and white bands around the lower rear fuselage. There are very pale letters "HT-E" either side of a blue, white, and red roundel outlined in yellow. There is a blue, white, and red fin flash on the lower part of the tail, above the black serial "RR299" on the upper rear fuselage. Lush green grass fills the foreground, with more grass leading up to a house and a fire truck in the distance, with trees beyond, under hazy grey skies.

Manchester Monday 3 19th January 2026.

G-AXUI, Handley-Page HP-137 Jetstream Mk.1, Cranfield University, taxiing in after landing at the British Aerospace plant at Woodford, 25th March 1993.

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Side view of a white and grey, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right.
The plane has white upper surfaces and grey lower surfaces, with a pale blue stripe running along the body, and black "Cranfield" titles on the upper rear fuselage.
There is a diagonal orange stripe on the tail, with the black registration "G-AXUI" passing through the base.
The wing-mounted engine pods are dark blue, almost purple.
Green grass fills the foreground. With more grass in the background leading up to trees in the distance, with tree-covered rolling hills beyond that.
Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

Manchester Monday 19th January 2026.

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Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner turning on to a wide, grey runway. The plane is white, with a dark blue tail and rear fuselage. No other markings are visible, apart from the yellow tips of the spinning black propellors. Green grass fills the foreground, with more grass lining the other side of the runway visible under the belly. A tall and wide terminal building stretches across the frame in the distance, under pale blue sky.

Manchester Monday 12th January 2026.

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left onto a grey runway. The plane is largely white, with a red rear fuselage and tail. There are grey "Helvetic" titles on the side of the forward fuselage, with smaller grey text "Airways" below. The black registration "HB-JVO" is on the upper rear fuselage, just forward of the rear cabin door. There is a large white cross on the red tail, as well as on the red up-turned wingtips. Green grass lines the runway in the foreground, with more grass in the background leading up to trees in the distance, under grey-blue sky.

Photo of the Day 10th January 2026.

G-LOFA, Lockheed L-188C Electra, Atlantic Cargo, parked on the flight lines at the Woodford Air Show, 22nd June 1996.

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Somewhat grainy side view of a 4 propellor-engined cargo plane parked on a grey taxiway facing to the left.
The plane is mostly white, with a green and black stripe running along the body, with green "Atlantic Cargo" titles on the upper fuselage, over the wings, and the black registration "G-LOFA".
The tail has a pair of green and black stripes at the top, with a large, black and white image of a stooping falcon over green "Atlantic" titles at the bottom.
Large areas of green grass divided by taxiways fill the foreground, with more grass leading up to trees in the distance, under grey sky.

Photo of the Day 10th January 2026.

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Manchester Monday 3 5th January 2026.

G-BUFL, British Aerospace Jetstream 3101, used by the manufacturer as a corporate shuttle but here operating a display flight at the Woodford Air Show, 1992 or 1993.

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Side view of a small, white, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from right to left along a grey runway.
The plane is pretty much devoid of markings, apart from the black registration "G-BUFL" on the rear fuselage.
Green grass lines the sides of the runway in the foreground, with more grass in the background leading up to trees in the distance.
A red fire engine is on the right in the background, parked on the grass, with a white ambulance next to it partly hidden behind the plane.

Manchester Monday 5th January 2026.

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Side view of a white, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left along a grey taxiway. The plane has a grey and dark blue stripes running along the body, swooping up over the wing and back down again, and a smaller, similar stripe on the white tail. The engine pods under the wings are s deep blue, almost purple. The black registration "CS-TFX" is on the upper rear fuselage. Green grass fills the foreground on the left, with a black taxiway with a yellow line down the middle on the right. Grey airport buildings fill the background, with tall lighting towers climbing into the blue sky.

Manchester Monday 3 22nd December 2025.

XL573, Hawker Hunter T7, RAF Royal Air Force, on the runway during one of the annual Woodford Air Shows on the outskirts of Manchester, some time in the 1990s.

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Side view of a single engined, 2 seat military fighter jet taxiing from left to right along a dark grey runway.
The plane is covered in a dark grey and dark green camouflage pattern, with a dark blue and red rounded barely visible behind the wings on the rear fuselage, and a blue and red fin flash on the tail.
The engine intakes, buried in the wing root, are a creamy yellow.
A dark green fuel tank is mounted under each wing.
Green grass fills the foreground, lining the sides of the runway, with more grass in the background leading up to a large grey building on the right of the frame, and trees everywhere else, under grey sky.

Manchester Monday 3 1st December 2025.

One of the most bizarre display teams I've ever seen
F-GDPX, Max Holste MH.1521C-1 Broussard and Colomban MC-15 Cri-Cri in the colours of their sponsor, Brittany Ferries.
What was so bizarre about these?
The, erm, "formation" take off.
See that metal frame sticking out in front of the wing of the bigger plane, just in front of the cockpit windows?
That was to support the nose wheel of the smaller plane on take off.
The Cri-Cri was mounted on top of the much larger Broussard, only separating from the mother ship part way through the display.
An interesting note - the Cri-Cri is (or at least, was) the worlds smallest twin-engined plane, powered by chain-saw engines!

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A pair of aircraft flying from left to right at a low altitude, one flying more or less straight and level, the other pitching up, both trailing smoke to make them easier to see.
The lower plane is the larger, a high-winged, single propellor-engined plane, with a tail wheel and twin tails on the ends of the horizontal stabilisers.
The plane is mostly white, with a thick red stripe at the bottom of the fuselage, red stripes at the top and bottom of the twin tails, and on the wing tips.
There are dark blue "Brittany Ferries" titles on the side of the rear fuselage, and the black registration "F-GDPX" on the outer face of the tails.
Smoke trails out of the engine exhaust, at the bottom of the forward fuselage.
The upper plane is all white, with a red stripe along the bottom of the fuselage, a red and white waving flag on the tail, red wingtips, and very small red engines on stub wings at the tip of the nose.
Dark blue Brittany Ferries" titles can be seen on the side of the fuselage, partially obscured by the wing, as well as on the undersides of the wings., with the black registration "F-PZTU" on the side of the rear fuselage.
Smoke trails from a canister under each wing.
Flat grey sky fills the rest of the image.

Photo of the Day 30th November 2025.

G-ISEE, British Aerospace Avro RJ85, in primer prior a test flight, at Woodford, some time in the early 1990s.

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Manchester Monday 24th November 2025.

C-8, Fokker F-27-300M Troopship, KLU Royal Netherlands Air Force, performing an astonishing display routine, quite possibly with at least one engine shut down, at one of the annual Woodford Air Shows, some time in the mid 1990s.
There is even some blue sky for once!

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