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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 →

Museum Monday: Gallery of Flight at Milwaukee General Mitchell Int’l Airport

07/12/10
If you like flying, chances are you like airplanes. And if you like airplanes, chances are you like visiting aviation museums once in a while. Lucky for you there are more than 600 aviation and space-related museums around the country.   Each Monday, StuckatTheAirport.com visits one of them. This week, it’s the Mitchell Gallery of Flight →

Museum Monday: LAX Flight Path Learning Center and Museum

07/05/10
There are close to 700 aviation & space museums around the county and in my recent msnbc.com column Aviation and Space Museums that Soar, I only had room to list six of them. The best of the rest we’ll get to know here, during Museum Mondays on StuckatTheAirport.com. Last week, it was the New England →

Free museum entry for you around the country

07/03/10
A lot of businesses close during holiday weekends, but during this July 4th holiday plenty of museums, zoos and special attractions will be open. Thanks to the Bank of America’s Museums on Us program, admission to more than 120 museums will be free this weekend for anyone who has one of the bank’s ATM, credit →

Maggots and flying cars. Need we say more?

07/01/10
Besides the story about the Charlotte-bound US Airways plane that had to return to the gate in Atlanta because maggots started dropping from an overhead bin (watch video at your own risk…) …the best aviation-related story making the rounds today was about yet another FAA-approved flying car. The Christian Science Monitor’s story about the Terrafugia →

Aviation and space museums on the must-see list

06/25/10
(Hanging planes at Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, AZ) I am an idiot. At least that’s what some fans of Dayton, Ohio’s United States Air Force Museum and many other aviation museums were calling me today. They read my msnbc.com column – Aviation and space museums that soar – and were pissed that their →

Souvenir Sunday: horseshoes and cigars from Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport

06/20/10
Each Sunday at StuckatTheAirport.com is Souvenir Sunday – the day we look at some of the fun, inexpensive items for sale in airport gift shops. This week’s souvenirs come to us from the Blue Grass Airport (LEX) in Lexington, Kentucky. The Aviation Museum of Kentucky is on airport property and last weekend (June 13, 2010) →
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