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Manc AvGeek

Photo of the Day 1st April 2025.

UR-42544, Yakovlev Yak-42, Avia Express, parked across it's gate at Manchester Airport, some time in 1992 or 1993, as seen from the top of the |Terminal 1 car park.
The airport didn't have a towbar to fit this type, which explains the jaunty angle at which this is parked, to enable it to move away under it's own power once it completes the turn.

#Manchester #Man #EGCC #Terminal2 #L13 #Yakovlev #Yak42 #AviaExpress
#AvGeek #aviation #pplanespotting #photography

Side view of a white, 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, parked facing to the right. The plane has a grey belly, and a blue stripe running along the body under the cockpit windows. There is blue text in a Cyrillic script on the upper fuselage, next to the flag of Ukraine (equal horizontal bars, blue on top, yellow below.) There is a yellow circle on the tail, containing a stylised blue flying bird. The registration "UR-42544" is on the centre engine intake, below and in front of the tail, in black. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with white airbridges hanging out into space filling most of the background, assorted baggage carts, trucks, and other pieces of airport furniture scattered around the place.
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Ian Kluft ✈️🎈🌋

@elaterite Usually the instructor takes the radios for some lessons, to let the student learn a few things at a time. That student wanted to try on his first lesson. I coached him. He did a radio call.

After the flight, he didn't look happy. As we debriefed, it was the radio call.
I explained, "So you're unhappy you didn't sound like an airline pilot. Everyone who heard you [including his father who was on frequency] was impressed you didn't sound like a student pilot." #aviation #pilot #avgeek

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Ian Kluft ✈️🎈🌋

@elaterite I once had a student who initially thought lowly of C172s because he rode along a lot in his father's high-performance Piper Comanche. But with one flying lesson his opinion was turned around to understand the purpose of a C172 as a stable basic airplane, easy to fly and good for learning in. #aviation #pilot #avgeek

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Gunnar Bergfalke

VL Sääski II. The first aircraft type designed in and series produced in Finland. The Finnihs air force used 34 in 1928-1941. Five more were built for other Finnish customers.
Photo from my visit to the Finnish Aviation Museum, years ago.
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