Photo of the Day 15th March 2026.
N520EA, McDonnellDouglas MD-520N, hovering before landing, facing to the right, kicking up a lot of mown grass as it does so, at Manchester Barton, 3rd June 2023.
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On This Day 15th March 2017.
G-ZBAD, Airbus A321-231, Monarch Airlines, accelerating along Runway 23L Left at Manchester Airport, 15th March 2017.
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On This Day 2 15th March 1992.
G-BTJJ, Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, 15th March 1992.
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On This Day 3 15th March 1993.
G-6-218, British Aerospace 146-300, China NorthWest Airlines, undergoing some tests before delivery to the customer at Manchester Woodford, 15th March 1993.
This was delivered as B-2719.
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On This Day 4 15th March 1994.
G-OEBA, Robin DR400/140B, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, 15th March 1994.
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@zkarj There is an airport in Greece that I want to get to some day.
Skiathos is vaguely similar to Sint Maarten, in that the approach is over the sea, with the runway threshold pretty much a very public breach.
All flights backtrack along the runway, before turning around for takeoff.
And because it's on a beach, sand gets onto the runway, and is often blown back off when planes apply TOGA thrust.
And people get blown away!
At least one person has learned the hard way not to park a car directly in line with the runway centreline...
@mancavgeek I've heard of Skiathos and Sint Maarten. Seen videos of numpties at the latter. 🙄
I've also seen video of the MiG-29 collision. The only time I ever got to a RIAT (and I'm bloody thankful I lucked into that one!) two exciting things happened and I didn't really see either.
1. A G.222 had a bird strike (on an engine) during its display. I did see it suddenly land and a fire engine approach before it was towed off the runway. My BIL was in the Gold Stand and got the instant replay from the powerful zoom on a TV camera.
2. A French Marine F-8 apparently bounced or hard-landed after the show. We were still there but were in the car in the queue waiting to get out so saw nothing — a marshal we were chatting to told us.
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