National Aviation Day & Orville Wright’s Birthday
Today, August 19, is National Aviation Day, observed each year on Orville Wright’s birthday. Orville and his brother Wilbur are credited with inventing the first airplane to achieve powered, sustained, and controlled flight. All but dropped from the Wright Brothers story, though, is the contribution Katherine Wright, their sister, made to aviation history. As I […]
AeroTrain car on exhibit at Dulles International Airport
Since 1962, one of the unique features of Dulles International Airport (IAD) has been the strange-looking “mobile lounges” used to shuttle passengers between the Main Terminal and other parts of the airport. Sometime in 2009, passengers will begin traveling between the Main Terminal and the A, B, and C gates via an underground AeroTrain system. […]