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Airports, airplanes & Alexander Calder

07/23/21

July 22 was artist Alexander Calder’s birthday, giving us an excuse to share some photos of his work in airports and on airplanes. The photo above is of Calder in 1957 inspecting the installation of his work originally titled .125, after the gauge of the aluminum elements in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International […]

Celebrating the centenary of Bessie Coleman’s pilot license

06/15/21

On Monday, the National Air and Space Museum, and many others, marked the 100th anniversary of the day Bessie Coleman earned her pilot’s license – and changed history. Click through the links in the tweets below to learn more about this incredible woman and some of the men and women who were inspired by her […]

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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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