Like the bears in the zoo this warm winter, Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty) isn't hibernating. She's wagging her tail and pressing her nose against the hangar door, wanting to get out and fly.

Great contrast this afternoon. Unfortunately the magic didn't last long.

Crossing the A5 motorway, followed by KLM Embraer 190 PH-EZN.

Amsterdam by night. The Falcon became N490SJ and M-JETT.

5Y-BAS pictured during its take-off from runway 01L. Only two ASA aircraft ever carried the striking zebra stripes on the upper fuselage, and this is one of them. ASA purchased this beauty from KLM in 1976 (ex PH-DCN), and later sold it to Seychelles International as S7-SIA. It was broken up at Brussels during 1987.

Back in these days the two Syrian Air Ilyushin 76's were still IL-76M's, but they were later converted to IL-76T (additional APU and several internal differences).

Trade Air flight TDR241 from Stansted landing on runway 18R. This is ex American Airlines N1424M.

One of Independent Air's duo of 707s captured during the take-off from Amsterdam's runway 24. This aircraft was purchased one year earlier (ex TWA N28727), but unfortunately crashed into the Pico Alto mountains, Azores on 8 February 1989. This accident led to the collapse of Independent Air in 1990.

Quite a rarity even in 1973 !