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Exhibit celebrates history of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

09/17/15

An new exhibition celebrating the history and growth of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport includes photographs and vintage airline amenities, including playing cards, china place settings, gourmet menus, grooming kits and other amenities. Look for the exhibit in Terminal 4 (level 3) on the south side just west of the food court. →

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A new LaGuardia Airport? It will happen.

07/27/15

On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the long-awaited plan for the promised makeover of LaGuardia Airport, which U.S. vice-president Joe Biden likened to one found in “some Third World country.” The make-over of the airport will be massive: it will cost at least $4 billion and include one unified terminal building “designed so →

Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket – in Wyoming

06/23/15

I’m putting finishing touches on a presentation I’ll be making at the Washington Museum Association conference this week about objects museums have that they rarely or never show to the public. One of the treasures I’ll be featuring is Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket. Not the one she was wearing on that last flight, of course, →

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Finding Amelia Earhart – in Cleveland

04/17/15

I had the great pleasure of visiting the International Women’s Air & Space Museum this week for a tour and a look inside a few storage boxes, including one holding artifacts relating to Amelia Earhart. Here are a few snaps from the visit: →

Living in the Age of Airplanes – preview on an A380

04/07/15

I was a fortunate guest for the in-flight preview of “Living in the Age of Airplanes”, a new National Geographic film by Brian Terwilliger, that is narrated by Harrison Ford, with an original score by Academy Award-winning composer James Horner. The film opens this Friday in IMAX, giant screen, digital and other special specialty →

Airline ads from the Mad Men era

04/05/15

The final season of Mad Men kicks off tonight and that gives us yet another excuse to look back at the real work done by advertising men and women on behalf of airlines during the glory days of the industry. We get help from an impressive new book – in looks, size (it measures 12.2″ →

SFO Museum celebrates aviators at the 1915 World’s Fair

02/21/15

A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport displays images of the popular aeronautical programs that were presented at San Francisco’s 1915 World’s Fair – known as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Included in Fancy Flying: Aviation at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition – are twenty-one recently created black and white gelatin silver prints made from →

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Smithsonian offers eye-level view of Spirit of St. Louis

01/20/15

The “Spirit of St. Louis” – the plane in which a 26-year-old Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo transatlantic flight in May, 1927 – is one of the most popular artifacts at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The plane is usually suspended from the gallery ceiling, but for the next five months the →

Since Katy the waitress became an aviatress

01/06/15

Spotted in the sheet music collection of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. From 1919: From 1911: From 1909: →

Museum Monday: Up, up and away

01/05/15

Today, airplanes take us from here to there in the air. But back in 1783, traveling by balloon became the big thing. That’s when the Montgolfier brothers made a hot air balloon out of paper and silk in Paris and took the first free flight carrying a human. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum →

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