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!

Dallas Cowboys NFL team charter arriving in wonderful light conditions.

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

Main gears off the ground in well under 4,000 feet of roll with this obviously lightly-loaded Western Global 747 that was brought in to augment UPS' peak-season workload for the 2018 holidays.

Fresh catch of the day.

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

Spewing an assortment of vapors as it flies through the more saturated air in the Minnesota River valley, UPS 560 approaches runway 30L in the early morning.

Early morning flap-edge vortices.

The newest aircraft in the UPS 747 fleet, but not the most recent delivery.

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

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

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

"Giant 8543" touching down on runway 12R.

FedEx 1156 off for ORD which looks to be a new leg for this flight.

First delivery of new Sun Country livery. Former AeroMexico. The registration will be reassigned to N830SY.

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Arriving just before sunrise.

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

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