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Fresh art (and history) at St. Louis Lambert Int’l Airport

03/28/21

There’s a new glass mural at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) honoring the life and legacy of airport founder Major Albert Bond Lambert. Born in 1875, Albert Lambert was an avid balloonist and an accomplished golfer who competed in the 1900 and 1904 summer Olympics. And, lucky for us, he was also an aviation →

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Travel Tidbits: chocolate, aviation history, bonus miles for rides

03/24/21

Alaska Airlines + Seattle Chocolate: good match We nibbled our way through the research for a story you’ll find on the Runway Way Girl Network about how Seattle Chocolate and Alaska Airlines worked together to develop an exclusive chocolate bar flavor for upper tier flyers as an in-flight perk. And how that bar is now →

Airports celebrate Women’s History Month

03/08/21

March is Women’s History Month and March 8 is International Women’s Day. Both present a great opportunity to celebrate and learn more about the accomplishments of women. Here are a few tweets we spotted from airports and museums. Our favorite places. →

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Museum Monday: Amelia Earhart’s Goggles

01/31/21

Here’s proof that you never know when you’ll come across something cool in an unexpected place. Case in point: the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. The sprawling museum is not just the largest children’s museum in the world. It is also home to more than 130,000 artifacts, many of them true treasures. One example: these aviator →

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Travel Tidbits: an Astrochimp, airplane models, and more

01/19/21

It has been difficult – to say the least – to read anything but political news this week. But we did take a break and found these fun aviation-related treasures in our Twitter stream about anniversaries marking the death of Ham the Astrochimp and a record-breaking flight by Howard Hughes. The SFO Museum gives us →

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More airports embrace the “How it started” meme

10/11/20

Our first post sharing examples of how airports are embracing the “How it Started Twitter meme got so long that we’ve started a new post. Please let us know if you find new responses that should be added. We’ll add them as we find them. →

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Travel Tidbits to blast off into a new week

10/05/20

October 5 marks the birthday of Robert Hutchings Goddard, known as the “Father of Modern Rocketry.” It started in a cherry tree In October 1899, a 17-year-old Goddard climbed a cherry tree in Central Massachusetts armed with a saw and a hatchet so he could cut off some dead tree limbs. “It was one of the →

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STL Airport’s Black Americans in Flight mural turns 30

08/13/20

Make sure to see this historic mural at STL Airport August 13, 2020 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the dedication ceremony unveiling the Black Americans In Flight mural that now hangs in Terminal One (T1) at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL). The five-panel mural is eight feet tall and 51 feet long. It pays tribute to →

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Aviation memorabilia at John Wayne Airport (SNA)

08/06/20

One nice perk of visiting lots of airports is getting to see great art and history exhibits, even if your trip doesn’t leave much time to hang out in many museums around town. We miss that right now. But we are glad airports continue to share their fresh exhibits with us online. A great example: →

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BWI & LAX airports mark anniversaries

06/25/20

Two airports celebrate dedication anniversaries this week: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). 70 years ago, on June 24, 1950, President Harry S. Truman officially dedicated Friendship International Airport, which is now known as Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. 11 years later, then-Vice President Lynden B. Johnson was on →

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