For the second day in a row, we’re showing a Thai airplane. This is HS-TGB, a Boeing 747-400, taking off from Stockholm Arlanda’s runway 19R for flight TG 961 to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi.

PH-MPQ is a Boeing 747-400BCF (Boeing Converted Freighter) which is flying for Martinair, and which, in this picture, rotates on take-off from Amsterdam Schiphol.

Four powerful engines take this Boeing 747-400, TG-HSB, from Thai Airways into the skies on this flight from Stockholm Arlanda to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi.

This Boeing 747-400M, PH-BFF, from KLM is in a mixed passenger/cargo configuration, here seen being towed to the gate at Amsterdam’s E pier.

City of Vancouver is the name of this Boeing 747-400M, PH-BFV, from KLM, which is seen parked at Amsterdam Schiphol’s gate D43.

In the middle of this grey, overcast and foggy Dutch spring day, this Boeing 747-400 from China Airlines, with registration B-18201, probably has a lot of sunseekers longing for the beaches of Thailand on this Amsterdam-Bangkok-Taipei flight.

Preparations for the departure of this Boeing 747-400 from Thai Airways, with registration HS-TGG, took longer than planned, but it eventually departed from Stockholm Arlanda’s gate 17 for flight TG961 to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport.

A Boeing 747-400M from KLM looks good, no matter whether the weather is good or bad. This shot is of PH-BFU at Amsterdam.

It’s always a pleasure to see a Boeing 747-400 take off, and especially one that you’ve had the privilege of being a passenger on. This is Thai’s Boeing 747-400, HS-TGB, taking off from Stockholm Arlanda for a flight to Bangkok. A couple of years ago I flew this airplane in the opposite direction.

Another picture from the good old glory days of the Zurich airport B-dock. This Boeing 747-400, HS-TGY, from Thai Aiways, was parked here when I visited back in 2001.