DFW | May 2009 | Founders' Plaza | What can brown do for you?

Around 1030 or so a steady stream of UPS freighters starts arriving at DFW and that makes the UPS ramp adjacent to Founders' Plaza a beehive of activity until right after lunch time. If you dig cargo birds, then that's one of the prime spotting times at DFW. These are all shots from just one day right before lunch back in May:

First of the lunch rush at the UPS ramp, this is N435UP, a 757-200PF (Package Freighter) that was built and delivered to UPS back in October of 1993. She's just nosing into her parking space and you can see other rampers heading out to marshall in the other arriving UPS flights.

Too bad the day was so hazy, this would have been a much better shot, but here's the UPS flight that arrives from Ontario, California, daily at DFW. This MD-11F, N253UP, was built originally as a passenger aircraft for Varig Brasil in September 1993 and was converted to freighter configuration by Singapore Air Services Company at Paya Lebar Airport there for UPS. Notice that her #1 and #3 engines have different exhaust spikes. Don't see that very often that two different versions of the GE CF6-80C2 are used on the wing engines. Usually if one engine is different, it's installed on the #2 tail position.

N253UP just seconds from touchdown on 18R with the International Terminal in the background......

Hot on the heels of a UPS MD-11F comes a UPS A300-600F from Boston that's still in the old colors. This aircraft, N144UP, was built and delivered to UPS in February 2002. In a few seconds, the spoilers across the wings will deploy.....

This UPS 767-300F arrived on 13L just before the UPS MD-11F and A300-600F and got to the UPS ramp first. This particular Boeing freighter, N322UP, was built and delivered to UPS in November 1997. Behind it entering the ramp is the MD-11F N253UP.

N253UP starts its turn into its parking space while behind her the A300-600F N144UP enters the UPS ramp.

Close up shot of N144UP as it turns a stone's throw from Founders' Plaza onto the north ramp of the UPS facility.

Bringing up the rear of the late morning UPS conga line at DFW, N151UP is an A300-600 this time in the current newer colors, built and delivered to UPS in April 2003. I think this flight came in from UPS' main hub at Louisville.

Some UPS birds framing American Airlines line maintenance hangars and the West Tower at DFW. I liked how this one came out, I'll probably get it enlarged to hang on my walls.