Reverser doors opening as the maingear touches the runway.

Operated by Central Air Service.

DHL 757 with an exotic reg landing on Runway 09 in fading evening light. (Canon 40D 100mm)

Holding for departure on 9R. One of five 747s in the DL fleet.

Jumbos were never widely used by Delta until much more recently as a result of the Northwest takeover, but they could be seen on Heathrow schedules for a short period back in the Seventies. And they will have the distinction of being the last US airline to operate them on passenger services. N9900, seen here taking off from runway 10R in September 1974, was a 1971-build Srs 100 converted to a freighter in 1977. Went to Flying Tigers as N805FT being taken over by FedEx as N625FE; ended up as Kalitta's N709CK and and scrapped at Oscoda, MI (the old Wurtsmith AFB) in 2015

Former Central Air Service aircraft, now stored in the tall weeds at Bill Dempsay's farm airstrip in Rantoul.

Nearest in a line-up of nine Southern Airways Martin 404's. Taken just before the departure of the morning wave of Southern's flights to points in the southeastern States. A vintage Shell tanker is in the foreground.