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  1. Photo Of The Day 18th August 2026.

    On This Day 18th August 2024. Tails Tuesday 18th August 2026.

    mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/18/ph

  2. Photo Of The Day 24th July 2026.

    On This Day 24th July 1993. On This Day 24th July 1995. Frankfurt Friday 24th July 2026.

    mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/24/ph

  3. "The British are coming!" And unlike a similar quote from 250 years ago, we hope they enjoy their visit. Spotted on approach to Portland #PDX / #KPDX this afternoon: British Airways 787-10 Dreamliner coming from London Heathrow #LHR / #EGLL. #aviation #travel #avgeek

  4. "Qantas plans a 22-hour London-Sydney nonstop flight, set for October next year" by @AssociatedPress - Affected by delays in delivery of their A350-1000ULR (ultra long range) planes, Qantas has postponed to Oct 2027 their "Project Sunrise" plans, non-stop flights between Sydney #SYD / #YSSY and London #LHR / #EGLL. What's a few more months on achieving the company's decades-old long-term goal? Qantas' current longest flights are Perth to London. apnews.com/article/australia-q #aviation #travel #avgeek

  5. Photo of the Day 18th June 2026.

    On This Day 18th June 1993.

    ‘Throw Thursday 18th June 2026.

  6. Photo of the Day 11th June 2026.

    ‘Throw Thursday 11th June 2026.

  7. Heathrow: Boarding starts at 8:40. It may take up to fifteen minutes to walk to your gate. "Please allow enough time to reach your gate." It's 8:44. We're still not telling you what your gate is. May be the famous British humor.

    In seriousness, I don't know any airport that announces gates this late. Is this some deal with the shops to keep people around the central concourse?

    #lhr #airports #heathrow

  8. Flight: #BEL93B
    Registration: OO-SSF
    ICAO code: #44CE66
    Callsign: #BEELINE
    Operator: Brussels Airlines
    Type: AIRBUS A319-111
    Country: 🇧🇪
    From: #LHR to #BRU
    Speed: 569 kmh
    Altitude: 1775 m
    Distance: 2.6 km
    Angle ∆: 34.6°
    Direction ->: E
    Track:
    tinyurl.com/22qrhc2h
    History:
    radarbox.com/data/mode-s/44CE66
    flightradar24.com/data/aircraf
    Photos:
    jetphotos.com/photo/keyword/OO
    Seen: 436x
    #Landing #BrusselsAirport

  9. Flight: #BAW405
    ICAO code: #407FCB
    Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
    Operator: British Airways
    Country: 🇬🇧
    From: #NAP to #LHR
    Speed: 775 kmh
    Altitude: 10965 m
    Distance: 7.2 km
    Angle ∆: 56.6°
    Direction ->: WNW
    Track:
    tinyurl.com/284vfbpy
    History:
    radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407FCB
    Seen: 33x

  10. Flight: #BAW405
    ICAO code: #407FCA
    Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
    Operator: British Airways
    Country: 🇬🇧
    From: #NAP to #LHR
    Speed: 751 kmh
    Altitude: 10378 m
    Distance: 6.3 km
    Angle ∆: 58.8°
    Direction ->: WNW
    Track:
    tinyurl.com/28tx3878
    History:
    radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407FCA
    Seen: 37x

  11. Flight: #BAW405
    ICAO code: #407FC9
    Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
    Operator: British Airways
    Country: 🇬🇧
    From: #NAP to #LHR
    Speed: 827 kmh
    Altitude: 10973 m
    Distance: 7.7 km
    Angle ∆: 54.9°
    Direction ->: WNW
    Track:
    tinyurl.com/2blekysx
    History:
    radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407FC9
    Seen: 50x

  12. Flight: #BAW405
    ICAO code: #407FCA
    Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
    Operator: British Airways
    Country: 🇬🇧
    From: #NAP to #LHR
    Speed: 818 kmh
    Altitude: 10980 m
    Distance: 6.4 km
    Angle ∆: 59.6°
    Direction ->: WNW
    Track:
    tinyurl.com/2269bp9y
    History:
    radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407FCA
    Seen: 35x

  13. "London’s Heathrow Airport prepares to restart flights after major fire nearby shuts down travel" by CNBC (#FPNF Fediverse presence not found - if you know them, invite them) - Power outage at London Heathrow #LHR #EGLL caused chaos. Restoring power is one of many steps to getting all the operations and services up and running again. Then travelers who didn't cancel can try all at once to proceed to their destinations. cnbc.com/2025/03/21/heathrow-a #aviation #travel #avgeek

  14. PSA to my fellow 🤓 #nerds who like #programming in @ruby and/or #webprogramming who would also like to visit ⚛️ CERN in 🇨🇭 #geneva — the place where @timbl invented the 🌐 #web.

    If you need a reason to visit #cern, maybe also for the #largehadroncollider, then this might be it.

    ruby.social/@helvetic_ruby/114

    And keep in mind that @helvetic_ruby is switching places each year. So if you'd like to have this combo then 2025 is the year for you.

    #rubylang #ruby #RubyProgramming #lhr #webdev #webdevelopment

    • Photo of the Day 3rd November 2024.

    G-JEA*, Fokker F27-500 Friendship, Jersey European, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990’s, as seen from the beer garden at the Airport Hotel pub by the runway threshold.

     

      On This Day 3rd November 1993.

    F-GCVY, Agusta-Bell AB-206B JetRanger II, at Paris Issy-Les-Molineaux, 3rd November 1993.

     

      On This Day 3rd November 1994.

    N874SJ, Douglas DC-8-73CF, Air India Cargo, in basic Southern Air Transport colours, decelerating hard after landing on Runway 09 Right at London Heathrow, 3rd November 1994.

    https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/11/03/photo-of-the-day-3rd-november-2024/

    #Agusta #AirIndiaCargo #AirportHotel #avgeek #aviation #B206 #bell #dc8 #douglas #egcc #egll #f27 #fokker #friendship #heathrow #IssyLesMoulineaux #jdp #JerseyEuropean #JetRanger #LFPI #lhr #london #man #manchester #OnThisDay #paris #photography #planespotting #Runway09Right #runway24 #SouthernAirTransport

  15. LONDON

    My packing list for this short trip to the U.K. did not include any plastic cards with embedded electronics, because London was one of the earlier cities in the world to grasp that you can persuade people to take transit if you will just shut up and take their money right before they board instead of first asking them to buy a reloadable transit fare card.

    By “money” I mean the kind embedded in people’s credit cards, both those that include NFC contactless payments and those stored in such apps as Apple Pay, Google Wallet (formerly Google Pay, formerly Android Pay, formerly Google Wallet) and Samsung Pay.

    Transport services in London have accepted tap-to-pay since 2012, so when I arrived here Monday I only had to hold my phone above the NFC terminal at a faregate for the Elizabeth Line to start paying my fare. Waving my phone over another faregate when I exited completed the transaction; the only hard part in between was not falling asleep on the train.

    My previous business travel to a city with a subway connection to its international airport, my too-brief visit to Chicago a month ago, treated me to the same convenience–CTA has welcomed NFC payments since 2013.

    But when I land at Dulles this afternoon and take Metro home, I’ll use a proprietary SmarTrip card that cost $2 to buy sometime years ago. WMATA does now support phone payments, but only via its own app–and as I’ve found out the hard way, you can’t move a SmarTrip card that still costs $2 even if bought right in the agency’s app to a new Android phone if your old Android phone dies.

    Transit apps don’t have to incorporate that defect, but too many of them ship with other problems–chief among them, not letting the user select a payment method already saved in Apple Pay or Google Wallet.

    Fortunately, WMATA’s can-do general manager Randy Clarke seems to have realized that Metro has created a payments problem for itself with this longstanding setup. At September’s WMATA board meeting, Clarke said he wants to see Metro support tap-to-pay by the time WorldPride Washington DC draws visitors to the D.C. area next May for the 50th anniversary of Pride celebrations here.

    Making a subway or bus ride the same no-new-app, no-new-card experience as booking an Uber would be an enormously customer- and visitor-friendly move by Metro.

    On that note, I’m obliged to disclose that I’m here courtesy of an Uber-paid press trip for Tuesday’s Go-Get Zero sustainability event here, which included generous Uber credits to get around the city. I’m further obliged to report that spending so much time sitting in London traffic in Ubers, even at no cost to me, was one of the better advertisements for transit that I’ve seen in a while.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/10/the-most-visitor-friendly-thing-a-citys-transit-system-can-do/

    #ApplePay #ElizabethLine #GPay #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #LHR #LondonUnderground #mobilePayments #NFC #RandyClarke #SamsungPay #tapToPay #transit #Tube #Uber #UX

  16. PK-GIA, Boeing 777-3U3ER, Garuda Indonesia, crossing the perimeter fence after taing off from Runway 08R at London Gatwick, 12th September 2014.

    58-6970, Boeing 707-153/VC-137B Stratoliner, United States Air Force, in the Air Force Two colour scheme, at London Heathrow, 22nd July 1995.

     

    LZ-D-050, Tupolev Tu134A, Bulgarian Air Force, on static display at Fairford International Air Tattoo, 22nd July 1995.

     

    HB-JVE, Fokker F100, Helvetic, taxiing out to the runway at Manchester Airport, 27th September 2013.

    Related

    #airshow #avp #b707 #b777 #boeing #bulgarianairforce #egcc #egkk-runway08r #egll #f100 #fairford #ffd #fokker #garuda #gatwick #heathrow #helvetic #iat #internationalairtattoo #lgw #lhr #london #man #manchester #tu134 #tupolev #unitedstatesairforce #usaf

    https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2023/07/22/photo-of-the-day-22nd-july-2023/

  17. VT-JEH, Boeing 777-35RER, Jet Airways, seconds after taking off from Runway 27L at London Heathrow, 22nd March 2018.

    OK-WDO, LET L-410UVP-E19A Turbolet, BemoAir, taxiing to the terminal after landing on Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, bringing in Czech fans for the Czech republic’s opening Euro 96 match against Germany at Old Trafford.

     

    N1024L, Beechcraft B60 Duke, parked at Manchester Barton, 9th June 1996.

    #aerolet #b60 #b777 #barton #beechcraft #bemoair #boeing #duke #egcb #egcc #egll #heathrow #jetairways #l13 #l410 #let #lhr #london #man #manchester #runway27l

    https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2023/06/09/photo-of-the-day-9th-june-2023/