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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 […]

Museum Monday: New England Air Museum

06/28/10

I’ve been getting a lot of guff from aviation museum fans upset that I didn’t include their favorite museum in my recent msnbc.com column – Aviation and space museums that soar. I was asking for it. There are close to 600 aviation and space museums in the country. And with room in the column for […]

Airplane pilots pay attention to Bitching Betty

06/26/10

I don’t have a GPS unit in my car, but I do find myself talking back to the little digital chef that pops up on the screen of my microwave. So I got a kick out of this Family Matters column from the New York Times in which Bruce Feiler examines the relationships people develop […]

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 […]

UFO Anniversary: Flying Saucers first sighted on June 24th, 1947

06/24/10

Whether you believe in them or not, today is the anniversary of the day back in 1947 when the “flying saucers” phenomenon began. People had certainly spotted strange things in the sky before. But it was a pilot flying his private plane near Washington State’s Mt. Rainier that gave the unidentified flying objects such a […]

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) […]

Transportation tidbit: Curtiss Aerocar Travel Trailer

06/05/10

Next week marks the 100th anniversary of the first production (as opposed to home-made, one-off) travel trailer and on Monday the modern-day RV industry will kick off a year-long celebration. Ground-zero for the festivities is sure to be the RV Museum and Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana, and last week RV historian Al Hesselbart […]

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Wild photo: American Airlines plane lifted over highway

05/25/10

Take a good look at this photo of the MD-80 jet that American Airlines recently donated to the George T. Baker Aviation School in Miami. The school is just across the highway from Miami International Airport, but they couldn’t just fly the plane over. So the airline partnered with the Odebrecht construction and engineering company […]

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