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.

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

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

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.

It's been almost a year and a half since I was last able to catch the fish at MSP. Here, the salmon takes flight at sunset as Alaska 781, bound for Seattle.

Bahrain Royal Flight parked on the Humphrey remote apron.

That perfect moment when the low winter sun is directly behind you as indicated by the shadow.

First revenue flight for the "Thank You" special livery, DAL1366, MSP-BOS.

This airframe was originally slated for Air Bridge Cargo but the order was not taken up and ultimately acquired by UPS with delivery taken on 16 NOV 2020.

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.

Looking great, Carolyn!

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This Alaska Airline's 737 flying fish, better known as Salmon-Thirty-Salmon, is among the most interesting special liveries out there!

The sole remaining Aer Lingus 757.

Delta 1492 arriving from Honolulu.

A half-dozen Sun Country planes parked on the runway 17 deice pad in the background during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was very cool to see both Honeywell testbed aircraft in the span of a week at MSP.

The setting sun breaks out after storm passage.

One more with a little better sun angle.

Stumbled onto a few old shots, pushing the limits of slow shutter speed panning shots. Got lucky with a fairly crisp one here at 1/10s.

After being delivered to Delta in Minneapolis on January 30th, N826NW taxis out for its first revenue flight as Delta 162 to Amsterdam.

Delta Airlines was the launch customer for this improved 242-metric ton maximum takeoff weight version back in May 2015. With up to 500 nautical miles further range and 5 metric tons of additional payload, this is now the fifth aircraft of this type to enter service for Delta.

Sniff, sniff...ahhh, new airplane smell!

Delta 170, arriving from Seoul, on the rollout after a passing storm.

The Skyteam livery on this airframe was replaced with standard Delta paint five months after this photo. It was recently put into storage on 3 FEB 2021.

UPS 2557 departing for Louisville.

Didn't luck out on the light or direction of takeoff for this one, but I'm not ever going to complain about seeing a 747 takeoff!

Now sporting "The Delta Spirit" decal.

The US Air Force's newest multirole passenger/cargo-tanker, the KC-46A Pegasus, arrives after a training flight. This aircraft is based out of McConnell AFB, Kansas as a member of the 344th Air Refueling Squadron, 22nd Air Refueling Wing.

The KC-46 is a heavily modified version of the Boeing 767-200ER. The USAF accepted its first production KC-46 in January 2019. 179 total aircraft are planned for production.

Off three-zero left into the setting sun.

American 1364 arriving from ORD.

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