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Build your own 787 Dreamliner

05/27/10
A few months back I toured Boeing’s Dreamliner Gallery.  That’s the 54,000 square foot shopping center near the company’s Everett, Wa. plant where airlines go to pick out the carpeting, the seats and the interior elements of their new 787 airplanes. I brought along photographer Jerome Tso to take pictures, and yesterday my story about […]

Can you build a better airplane? The Future of Flight wants your design

05/20/10
Here’s a great lemons to lemonade story. 8 year old Harry Winsor really loves to draw airplanes. So his dad, a savvy advertising executive – with a blog – sent one of Harry’s pictures to the folks at Boeing.  But rather than send Harry a thank-you note, the giant company sent Harry a form letter […]

Tidbits for travelers at MIA and PHL

05/17/10
This would be fun to watch:  American Airlines is donating a 140-passenger MD-80 aircraft to the George T. Baker Aviation School in Miami. To get the plane to the school they going to lift the 39-ton plane from a ramp at Miami International Airport up over a road using a 500-ton crane equipped with a […]

Folk art on wheels: art cars on a roll

04/30/10
(AeroCar 600: a 1959 BMW 600 turned airplane, by Dave Major) I had way too much fun this week learning about the wild and wacky world of art cars while putting together a slide-show on the topic for msnbc.com: Folk art on four wheels: art car celebrations around the country. One of my favorites was […]

Grimms’ Fairy Tales at Dane County Regional Airport

04/28/10
A National Geographic website about Grimms’ Fairy Tales offers these words of advice: “Looking for a sweet, soothing tale to waft you toward dreamland?  Look somewhere else.” That’s because the stories Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected in the early 1800’s don’t always have happy endings. There are witches. There are wolves. And there are creatures […]

Vintage airline air sickness bags

04/24/10
Reading back through the Delta Air Lines blog this week I noticed an entertaining entry from archives manager Marie Force: an airsickness bag from the mid-1960s that has a gin rummy scoreboard on one side: And an aviation quiz on the other! That led me to visit the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum, of course, […]

Lots of garbage at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

04/22/10
I prepared for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day by spending the afternoon with garbage at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). First up:  an exhibit featuring  artwork by Dorothy Rissman made from trash she found on city streets, construction sites and beaches. Next: an introduction to the airport’s six pair of shiny new, computer-monitored trash compactors, […]
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