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2025-10-21

Bonus Photo of the Day 21st October 2025.

WM167/G-LOSM, Gloster Meteor NF11, in Royal Air Force colours, taking off for a display flight at one of the Farnborough air shows some time in the 1990s.

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Rear view of a twin engined military jet fighter accelerating from right to left along a runway, with small flaps extended at the rear of the wings, between the fuselage and engines..
The plane is covered in a grey and brown camouflage scheme, with pale blue belly, as well as the under-sides of the wings and engine pods.
The wings appear to run through the sides of the engine pods, about a quarter of the way long the wings.
There is a blue, white, and red roundel on the rear fuselage, with the black serial "WM167" further back under the tail.
There is a red, white, and blue fin flash on top of the tail.
A grey runway stretches across the bottom of the frame, with grass on the far side leading up to trees in the distance, under grey sky.
2024-09-18

Bonus Photo of the Day 2 18th September 2024.

XA564, Gloster Javelin FAW1, Royal Air Force, on display outside The Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, 5th February 1996.

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Side view of a twin engined jet fighter aircraft on display on grass outside a museum.
The plane has an olive green and grey camouflage scheme on the upper surfaces, and a creamy-grey belly, with a black nosecone.
The serial number "XA564" is on the side of the engine air intakes below the 2 seat, tandem cockpit.
There is a large red, white, and blue fin flash on the tail.
Green grass fills the foreground, with a large grey and cream building filling the rest of the frame.
2024-02-05
C5-GOA, Boeing 707-323B, Air Gambia, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time between March 1992 and August 1993.

WK935, Gloster Meteor F.8 (mod), Royal Air Force, formerly used for prone flying experiments, on display at the RAF Museum, Cosford, 5th February 1996.
See <https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/84-A-1169-Prone-Pilot-Meteor-WK935.pdf> for details of this plane.

 

OH-LMY, McDonnell Douglas MD82, Finnair, on final approach to Runway 23 at Hamburg Airport, 26th October 1993.

 

G-KKES, Socata TB20 Trinidad, at Biggin Hill, 6th March 1996.

 

WB271/204, Fairey Firefly AS5, Royal Navy, performing a low-speed flypast at Woodford Airshow, some time in the 1990s.

 

124485/G-BEDF, Boeing B17G Flying Fortress, in USAF colours as “Sally B”, taxxing along a runway at North Weald Fighter Meet, some time in the early 1990s.

 

G-BOPT, Grob G115, at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/02/05/photo-of-the-day-5th-february-2024/

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Side view of a white and red, 4 engined jet airliner, flying from left to right at a low altitude, with wheels extended and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land, the rest of the frame filled with a bright but hazy sky.Side view of the nose and forward fuselage of a bare metal, twin engined military fighter jet, with an extended nose featuring an additional bubble canopy, with a blocky set of blue stairs on the far side and the museums grey walls in the background.Side view of a white and blue twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted mon the rear fuselage, flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with whels extended and flaps deployed from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land, with trees in the distance filling the bottom of the frame, the rest being filled with grey sky.Side view of a white and blue, single engined light aircraft, taxiing from right to left, with trees in the background, under an ominously orange-tinged sky.
2023-11-14
HB-IZY, Saab 2000, Crossair, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time after May 1997.

PH-FCX, Fokker F27-100MP, on dissplay outside the Aviodome museum at Amsterdam Schipol, 14th November 1992.

 

WM167/G-LOSM, Gloster Meteor NF.11, in Royal Air Force colours, at the annual North Weald Fighter Meet, some time in the early 1990s.

 

N601TW, Boeing 767-231, TWA Trans World Airlines, at Dusseldorf Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

 

SX-BED, Airbus A300B4-203, Olympic Airways, in a “temporary” all-white colour scheme, at London Heathrow, some time in the late 1990s.

 

7T-VEP, Boeing 727-2D6/Adv, Air Algerie, at Paris Orly, either 1993 or 1996.

 

N645UA, Boeing 767-322ER, United Airlines, at Zurich Kloten, either 1993 or 1996.

 

A line up of tails parked on Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport – 9V-SM_ or -SP_, Boeing 747-412, Singapore Airlines, VH-OJK, Boeing 747-438, Qantas, VR-HUE, Boeing 747-467, Cathay Pacific, C-GAVA, Boeing 767-233, Air Canada, an unidentified Airbus A320 of Air 2000, and a pair of unidentified Boeing 767’s of American Airlines.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2023/11/14/photo-of-the-day-14th-november-2023/

#a300 #a320 #Air2000 #AirAlgerie #airbus #AirCanada #airshow #AmericanAirlines #ams #amsterdam #Aviodome #b727 #b747 #b767 #boeing #CathayPacific #crossair #dus #dusseldorf #eddl #egcc #egll #egsx #eham #f27 #FighterMeet #fokker #friendship #Gloster #heathrow #kloten #l13 #lfpo #lhr #london #lszh #man #manchester #Meteor #museum #northweald #OlympicAirways #orly #ory #paris #Qantas #raf #RoyalAirForce #runway24 #s2000 #saab #schipol #SingaporeAirlines #Terminal2 #TransWorldAirlines #twa #UnitedAirlines #zrh #zurich

Side view of a twin engined, World War 2-era jet fighter aircraft parked facing to the left. The plane has grey and olive green camoflage on the upper surfaces of the body, wings, engines, and tail, with the rest in a light grey, apart from the nose cone, which is a gloss black. There is a square, red, white, and blue fin flash on the top of the tail, and a large blue, white, and red roundel on the rear fuselage.. Ther serial "WM167" is on the rear fuselage in black. There is a large black tarpaulin cover over the cockpit, secured by straps running under the body. In the background, a mass of cars, trucks, and parked aeroplanes stretches into the distance, eventually giving way trees, hedges, and fields, which exztend to the horizon, where they meet the grey sky.Almost head on view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner, parked on concrete slabs on grass and mud, facing slightly to the left of the camera. The plane is mostly white, with a thin red and thick blue sheatline running along the body from the nose.The tip of the nosecone is painted black, while the tips of the propellors are painted yellow. There is a set of metal steps positioned by the forward door on the planes left side. In the foregroundthe wing of another plane fills the top of the frame. In the background, a sandy brown building with a grey roof is on the left of the frame, with a grey concrete structure that is under construction fills the rest of the frame.Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude with it's undercarriage lowered. The plane is almost entirely white, with a large blue splotch overlaid with a smaller red splotch on the rear fuselage, the same design repeated on the tail, but with the red splotch squared off and with a large white cross in the middle, and the blue splotch having a ring of gold stars in the top left corner. There are blue "Crossair" titles on the upper forward fuselage. In the background, blue sky with wisps of white fill the rest of the frame.Closeup of the tail of a jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a pair of red cheatlines running along the middle of the body. The registration "N601TW" is on the upper rear fuselage in red. The tail is white, with red splotch in the middel containing the white letters "TWA", with a small, reversed United States flag just above. In the background, taxiways and runways lead off intop the distancewith trees in the distance slowly vanishing into the hazy grey sky.
2023-08-14

G-VZON, ATR72-500, Aurigny, taxiing out to cross Runway 23R on it’s way to 23L at Manchester Airport, 10th January 2017.

F-WZZX, Robin R-2160 Alpha Sport, on static display at Farnborough Air Show, 7th September 1996.

 

G-BSNR, British Aerospace 146-300, Air UK, being towed at Edinburgh Airport, 12th January 1995.

 

XA564, Gloster Javelin FAW.1, Royal Air Force, on display outside at the RAF Museum, Cosford, 5th February 1996.

 

F-G***, McDonnell Douglas MD83, Air Liberte, at paris Orly, either 1993 or 1996.

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https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2023/08/14/photo-of-the-day-14th-august-2023/

Side view of a single-engined, 2 seat light aircraft parked facing to the right. The plane is mostly black, with with a yellow stripe runnning along the body and the front edge of the tail, with the top of the rear fuselage aft of the cockpit also being yellow. The plane has a fixed undercarriage, with black spats over the wheels. There is a white A-frame holding some information about the plane for anyone who may be interested. Some people can be seen standing around on the far side, behind a waist-level metal fence. In the background, a large black hangar can be seen on the far side of the airfield on the left of the frame, with other buildings and trees stretched across the rest of the frame, under a cloudy grey sky.Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner being towed from right to left along an airport taxiway by a light blue truck just leaving the frame on the left. The plane is mostly white, with a thin light blue and thick dark blue running along the body from under the cockpit windows, sweeping up to occuly the whole of the tail. There are small dark blue "Air UK" titles on the upper forward fuselage, just aft of the forward door. The tail is dark blue, with diagonal thin blu stripealmost acting as a flag pole, with half of a Union Flag waving behind it. The registration "G-BSNR" in on the upper rear fuselage in black. In the foreground, an expanse of yellowing grass fills the bottom of the frame. In the background, more grass stretches out to the runway, then beyond to the fence that marks the airfield perimeter, beyond which is a clump of trees and bushes, with fields and more trees running off into the far distance, under a grey sky.Side view of a T-tailed, Delta-winged, twin engined jet fighter aircraft parked on grass facing to the right. the plane is mostly covered in a dark grey and oloive green camoflage scheme, with light blue-grey belly and undersides of the wings The nose cone is a gloss black. There is a large blue, white, and red roundel just aft of the nose cone, below the front of the cockpit windows. There is a blue, white, and red square flag on the front of the tail, the upper forward corner being truncated. there are red covers over the engine intakes, in the root of the wing. In the background, the rear fuselage and tail of a 3-engined white jet airliner is visible on the left, with a handful of cars parked on the right of the frame, with a row of trees in the distance, under a grey sky.Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with blue "aurigny" titles on the forward fuselage. The rear fuselage fades rapidly from white to yellow, with blue "Channel Islands" titles. The tail is also yellow, with an image of a flying black and yellow bird. The engine pods are yellow, with a white flag with a red cross and a golden insignia in the middle. In the foreground, there are signs planted in the grass, the front faces being orange, all other sides are yellow. In the background, large grass areas are seperated by stretches of tarmac, some of which have red and white barriers with red lights on top, indicating that some of the taxiways are shut. Trees show the perimeter of the airfield, with a hill fading in to haze under a grey sky.
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2023-06-22

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2022-12-23
Gloster E28-39

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