Flight AA051 departing Rwy 09R for DFW

Arriving as AAL2872 from the most populous city in South Dakota, Sioux Falls in absolutely pristine weather conditions! South Dakota is quite interesting in terms of a geographic perspective: first of all the capital, Pierre, seems to be located "exactly" in the middle of the state (based on my really fast GIS processing)

On short-final for runway 12R over Taft Lake after a short flight from MSP

One of the Atlas Air-operated Dreamlifters departing PAE for CHS in golden winter evening light, not long before 787 production moved entirely to CHS and these birds became much less common visitors to PAE

Turning onto taxiway Uniform headed to runway 30 for departure to Kona in the early morning sunshine against the hills of the San Francisco Peninsula not long after Hawaiian resumed the KOA-OAK route which was suspended during the pandemic