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Rolling down the tracks…Happy National Train Day

05/07/10
(Golden Spike ceremony. Photo: Andrew J. Russell, courtesy National Archives and Records Administration) Flying is fun, but once in a while taking the train just makes more sense. Saturday, May 8th, 2010 is National Train Day and there will celebrations around the country in major train stations, small depots, and transportation museums around the country.  […]

Airports of the future?

04/14/10
What would the airport of the future look like? As this collection of links to past articles in Popular Science makes clear, from the 1930’s through the 1960’s, people have floated some pretty wild ideas, including floating airports.   Other possibilities?  Skyscraper airports, airports with cotton runways, and rotary airports. What’s your idea for the airport […]

Bonus features on Oakland Int’l Airport website

03/22/10
Poke around on some airport websites and you’ll find some fun, surprising and educational stuff. Case in point: the Oakland International Airport (OAK) site, which has a link to the Exploratorium’s instructions on how to fold a paper airplane, information about the Oakland Aviation Museum, which sits on the airport’s North Field, and a great […]

Souvenir Sunday: Amelia Earhart luggage

03/14/10
Earlier this week, while waiting for Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger’s presentation at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, I spent some time in the Amelia Earhart exhibit.  And while I don’t think I’ll take up flying my own plane anytime soon, I keep thinking about getting some new luggage. Amelia Earhart endorsed a long […]

Capt. Sullenberger and Amelia Earhart at the Museum of Flight

03/09/10
Monday evening I was fortunate to be in the audience at Seattle’s Museum of Flight for a  presentation by the recently retired Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the now-legendary pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 who was able to successfully land a plane in New York City’s Hudson River. He began the evening by showing the NTSB’s […]

Packards at John Wayne Airport & a salute to women in aviation at the C.R. Smith Museum

03/01/10
From now through June 1, 2010, a collection of photographs and accessories from the classic Packard automobile will be on display in Terminal A at John Wayne Airport (JWA).   The items are on loan from Orange County’s Packard International Motor Car Club and include hood ornaments, Packard ephemera, and photos of Packards, including this 1932 […]

Singapore’s Changi Airport celebrates Year of the Tiger

02/12/10
The Chinese New Year will be celebrated this Sunday and Singapore’s Changi Airport is ready with giant displays to welcome in the Year of the Tiger: Changi Airport also opened up an Aviation Gallery in Terminal 2, with loads of information stations, interactive kiosks, and 600 tiny airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Here’s a “please-touch” […]

Airports in Reno, Toronto and Dusseldorf pay tribute to Winter Olympics

02/09/10
(Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards at the world’s largest ski jump inside an airport) Airports around the world are marking this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver with special exhibits. Yesterday, the Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) opened an Olympics museum inside the terminal. This past weekend, Düsseldorf  International Airport trucked in tons of snow to make […]
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