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There’s been a lot of coverage of NATO-related activity in Chicago, but not much about the role O’Hare Airport has played in the summit.

So the folks at the airport tallied up some of NATO-related numbers relating to the arrivals of world leaders, international delegations and foreign press:

Number of Flight Arrivals:

O’Hare private flight NATO operations: 34

O’Hare commercial flight NATO operations: 68

Estimated number of delegates through O’Hare: more than 1,300

Estimated number of people greeting/assisting them at the airport: 700+

Agencies and organizations involved: U.S. State Department, U.S. Secret Service, Illinois State Police and the Illinois Air National Guard.

They even had time to take pictures:

Czech Rep arrives at ORD

Motorcade meeting plane bearing NATO guests at ORD

(Photos courtesy Chicago Department of Aviation/kp)

Categories: Events, Uncategorized
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SKYGIRLS is a new book due out in September 2012 with more than 250 color and B&W photographs about the lives, careers and legacies of stewardesses.

The book is by photographer, writer and pilot Bruce McAllister and Stephan Wilkinson, a pilot and regular contributor to Smithsonian’s AIR & SPACE.

Here are few more images from the book:

SKYGIRLS is due out in September 2012.

Categories: Aviation history, Uncategorized
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The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport has put out the first of a three-part video series titled Clipper Glory: The Dawn of Ocean Air Transport.

Museum curator John Hill has assembled oral histories and period still photographs to celebrate the 1st Cross-Ocean scheduled passenger flight, which took place in April, 1937.

Be sure to take a look…

Categories: Exhibits, Uncategorized
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We’re used to seeing passengers in airports running to catch their flights. But on Sunday, May 6, many of the people running through Germany’s Dusseldorf Airport won’t be trying to catch a plane – they’ll be demonstrating their Olympic sport.

On Sunday, from 11 am till 6 pm, Dusseldorf Airport will present “Airport Games.” The event that will feature athletes and Olympic participants in full gear playing tennis, soccer, table tennis, rowing and many other sports.

In addition to watching the sports performances, regular airport visitors will be able to participate in the sports. According to an airport statement, “Athletes will guide the audience through various sports, including headis (table tennis played with your head) and crossboccia (boccia played with bean-bag like balls in a borderless, 3-dimensional area.”

Airport Games is part of the monthly event series “Airlebnis” (Air Experience) at DUS, which turns the terminal into a public event space the first Sunday of each month. Past events have included circus performances, ski jumps, singing concerts and other events.

Categories: Events, Sports, Uncategorized
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An unlimited travel budget would be nice. But few of us have that luxury.

Instead we scrimp and save and enter sweepstakes that award travel as prizes.

Here are two contests to keep those fantasies alive.

Source: The A.G. Spalding Baseball Collection, New York Public Library

Delta Air Lines, which sponsors 10 MLB teams, has launched the “Delta Travelist” contest, which invites fans to submit videos describing their ultimate baseball dream.

The airline will select “the most interesting, creative video” and award a prize that includes airfare, hotel, game day tickets and other perks for the winner and a guest.

Enter at http://www.facebook.com/delta. The deadline is May 11.

If baseball is not your thing, but jazz singer Michael Bublé is, then put your name in the hat for an American Airlines’ Five Star Smoothness contest offering a prize of a VIP trip to Los Angeles complete with a VIP meet-and-greet with Bublé and a $2,000 American Express® gift card that can be used for hotel accommodations, dining and shopping.

Deadline: June 11, 2012. Register at: www.aa.com/buble.

Prize: First Class tickets to Los Angeles (LAX); Five Star Service for two; an exclusive, VIP gathering with Michael Bublé; and a $2,000 American Express^® gift card to be applied toward hotel, dining, shopping and more.

Categories: Contests, Uncategorized
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