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Happy Birthday, Finnair

11/05/13

Happy Birthday, Finnair

Hidden Treasures: Air & Space Museum and beyond

11/03/13

Hidden Treasures at Air & Space Museum and beyond.

The surprising home of Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket

09/30/13

I recently had the great pleasure of spending a day touring the five first-rate museums that make up the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Formerly the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the recently expanded center is home to the Cody Firearms Museum, The Plains Indian Museum, The Draper Natural History Museum, the […]

Get ready for National Aviation Day

08/17/13

Get ready for National Aviation Day - August, 19, 2013

JFK T3 on list of America’s most endangered historic places

06/18/13

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has just issued its 2013 list of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places and the iconic, flying-saucer-shaped Terminal 3 at New York’s JFK International Airport – slated for demolition now that Delta Air Lines has moved over to Terminal 4 – is one of 11 sites on that list. […]

Airports named for aviation pioneers: Auckland Airport

05/27/13

My “At the Airport” column on USAToday.com last week was all about airports and airport terminals in the United States named for aviation pioneers. You can see that story and photos from many of those airports here, on StuckatTheAirport.com. There was, of course, not enough room to list all the U.S. airports with links to […]

Airports named for aviation pioneers

05/23/13

Former presidents George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton all have airports named for them. So do former cabinet secretaries John Foster Dulles and Norman Y. Mineta and celebrities as varied as John Wayne, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Will Rogers and Arnold Palmer. There’s also a […]

“Fly low, go fast, turn left” – ready for Reno Air Races

05/19/13

I didn’t think the National Championship Air Races, held in Reno, Nevada each year in September, were for me, but after seeing a thrilling, giant IMAX 3D movie about the event, I’ve changed my mind. http://youtu.be/fjM6tFYMFyI I saw the Air Racers IMAX 3D movie at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle (along with what appeared […]

Got a second? Time & Navigation exhibit at the Smithsonian

04/28/13

The National Air & Space Museum and the National Museum of American History have joined forces to create a new permanent exhibition at the Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. called Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There. The new exhibit explores how revolutions in timekeeping allowed people to […]

A Norwegian view of Aviation Geekfest 2013

03/10/13

More than 200 people from around the region – and around the world – recently attended Aviation Geekfest 2013 in Seattle. Over the past few years this annual event has grown tremendously in scope and attendance and this year offered aviation fans a chance to visit the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Boeing’s Renton 737 […]

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Happy Birthday, Finnair

Hidden Treasures: Air & Space Museum and beyond

The surprising home of Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket

Get ready for National Aviation Day

JFK T3 on list of America’s most endangered historic places

Airports named for aviation pioneers: Auckland Airport

Airports named for aviation pioneers

“Fly low, go fast, turn left” – ready for Reno Air Races

Got a second? Time & Navigation exhibit at the Smithsonian

A Norwegian view of Aviation Geekfest 2013

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