The Scottish Parliament (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: The Scots Pairlament) is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland. Located in the Holyrood area of the capital city, Edinburgh, it is frequently referred to by the metonym Holyrood.

The Parliament is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), elected for five-year terms under the additional member system: 73 MSPs represent individual geographical constituencies elected by the plurality ("first past the post") system, while a further 56 are returned from eight additional member regions, each electing seven MSPs.

Deicing during the polar vortex of 2019 with an air temperature of -22°F(-30°C).

Off to Palmdale after a stop at Minneapolis from Stuttgart.

Probably the best light I will catch this bird in while it has been parked at MSP since 15 MAY 2021.

UPS 2557 with a nice wing-wave from the captain on departure!

Taxiing out on its sixth day of revenue service.

"Lake Virginia", from the Hometown Lakes Project that existed on Sun Country aircraft between 2017 and 2019.

Dallas Cowboys NFL team charter arriving in wonderful light conditions.

Arriving after its third revenue flight, having completed its first earlier in the morning.

Fresh catch of the day.

Someone didn't do a very good job of getting the 1L door latch in place.

Delta 42 rotates off runway 30L, bound for Paris (CDG/LFPG) as an MSP airport snow thrower makes room for more of the record-breaking February snow to come.

Early morning flap-edge vortices.

"Giant 654" touches down on runway 30L after diverting enroute ANC-ORD due to thunderstorms at the destination.

One of my favorites in all its detail.

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The 150th UPS 747 operation to MSP.

After a 30-day stay in Minnesota, the Bahrain Royal Flight departs MSP.

"Giant 8543" touching down on runway 12R.

Some nice morning vapors and vortices on the arriving UPS 560 flight.

Arriving just before sunrise.

Another unusual visitor to MSP due to another unfortunate medical emergency. Cathay Pacific 806 departs runway 17 to resume her journey from Hong Kong to Chicago O'Hare.

UPS 561 off runway 17 for DFW with traffic departing runway 12R in the background.

The new Team USA special livery accelerates down runway 12R basking in the winter sunset.

This airframe started life as a passenger mover for American in 1991 before becoming a freight dog for FedEx in 1996.

The sole remaining Aer Lingus 757.

This particular MD-10 is the only one ever to complete an inverted dive in the notorious hijack-attempt incident from 7 APR 1994. I won't go into it here but you can certainly Google "FedEx flight 705" and learn about an amazing and horrific fight for survival.

The 208th 747 that UPS has sent to MSP departs for the return trip to Louisville. This was also the 9th visit here for N582UP.