A few recent aviation shots

Disgusting weather, but caught this beast greasing 8R at IAH....

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...then again rolling out...

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...and departing with the Houston skyline in the distance.

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"Gorilla In The Mist" - World Airways MD-11 N803DE (ex-DAL bird) painted in the retro "Operation Babylift" commemorative scheme. "Babylift" was the effort to get South Vietnamese children out before the fall of Saigon.

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Volga-Dnepr AN-124 'Ruslan' lumbering off 33R

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Thanks all...

Wade, I guess we're spoiled down here. We get all three of the commercial AN124 operators here: Volga-Dnepr, Polet and Antonov Design Bureau. Wouldn't mind seeing the Libyan bird, but I think that's unlikely. Caught the AN225 here once, too.