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Museum Monday: Kansas Aviation Museum

08/23/10

There are close to 700 aviation/space-related museums in the country. Each Monday on StuckatTheAirport.com we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. Today: The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas The museum is near the McConnell Air Force Base and is housed in the art deco-style building that served as Wichita’s municipal airport →

Museum Monday: Elvis’s airplanes at Graceland

08/15/10

There are more than 700 aviation and space museums around the country. Each Monday we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. Today, to mark the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16th, 1977, we’ll make a stop at Graceland, where two of Elvis’s jets are on display. This Lockheed JetStar was →

Museum Monday: 1940 Air Terminal Museum, Houston Hobby Airport

08/09/10

There are close to 700 aviation and space museums in this country. Each Monday, we take a look at one of them. Stick around. Eventually we’ll visit them all! This week: The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport. Housed in the airport’s original art deco air terminal,the museum is dedicated to →

Museum Monday: 1928 biplane inside Ottawa International Airport

08/01/10

There are close to 700 aviation and space museums in the country. Each Monday, we explore one of them. This week we have the story of a fun partnership between Canada’s Ottawa International Airport (YOW) and Vintage Wings of Canada, a local organization that acquires, restores, maintains and flies classic and significant aircraft, with an →

Tidbits for travelers: Free drinks for fliers; Flying car tweaked

07/28/10

If your Mileage Plus status on United Airlines lands you in the Economy Plus section, or if you pony up some extra bucks and buy your way into the seating area that promises 5 extra inches of legroom, the airline will buy you a drink. According to the airline website, anyone sitting in the Economy →

Museum Monday: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

07/26/10

There are close to 700 aviation and space museums around the country. Each Monday here at StuckatTheAirport.com, we feature one of them. This week: The National Museum of the US Air Force. This museum has a lot of fans and I took a lot of heat for leaving it out of a recent msnbc.com column →

Souvenir Sunday at Spokane Int’l Airport

07/25/10

Traffic was slow heading into Spokane International Airport on Friday because most drivers had their eyes on the sky. I don’t blame them: the USAF Thunderbirds and other military flight demonstration teams were practicing for this weekend’s Skyfest 2010 at Fairchild Air Force Base. Inside the airport, flights were delayed while practice flights took place. →

In Spokane: the world’s oldest flying Boeing airplane

07/23/10

I’ve been touring Spokane, WA and the surrounding countryside this week in search of unusual people, places and events to include in the 3rd edition of Washington Curiosities, one of the books I write for Globe Pequot Press. The week will end with a visit to Felts Field to meet Addison Pemberton, who found and →

First-time trike flight

07/20/10

For a while up there on Prosser Butte, just outside of Spokane, WA, I was hoping the sun would set before it was my turn to get strapped into the back seat of the two-seated, three-wheeled, motorized, kite-like contraption that Denny Reed insists is a perfectly legal light sport aircraft, or trike. But there was →

Museum Monday: Museum of Flight, Seattle

07/19/10

It’s Museum Monday here at StuckatTheAirport.com, so time to take a look at one of the 694 aviation museums around the country. This week: a quick look at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, which has just kicked off a new exhibit about women in the aerospace industry: Chasing Horizons: Women in Aerospace. Associated Women Pilots of →

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