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SFO Museum explores history of airline branding

04/20/09

1950’s Pan Am World Airways flight bag; photo courtesy San Francisco Int’l Airport) If you’ve got a layover at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) be sure to check out the exhibition of more than 125 vintage and present-day items from 45 airlines, including flight attendant uniforms, airline signage, flight bags, in-flight service items, luggage labels, →

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Complimentary ashtrays from Air France

03/16/09

Each year, more than 100,000 aviation fans make their way north from Seattle to Mukilteo to visit the Future of Flight Aviation Center and take a tour of the Boeing commercial jet assembly plant. The tour is mighty impressive, and so is the Aviation Gallery, which features the nose section of a Boeing 727, airplane →

Lincoln Memorial at O’Hare Airport

03/14/09

It’s the bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and there are special exhibits and events all over the country. Now Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) is joining in, with an exhibit of a half-size replica of the Lincoln Memorial. The replica is 101/2 feet tall and 9 wide feet wide. Look for it in Terminal →

Abraham Lincoln

What’s near: Stewart International Airport?

03/12/09

This seems handy: Stewart International Airport (SWF) in New York’s Hudson Valley is close to a good many historic and cultural sites you can now find out about from an interactive map on the Web site of the Port Authority of NY & NJ, which now runs this airport. The airport portion of the map →

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Stewart International Airport

Happy Birthday Barbie!

03/09/09

Yesterday, March 8th, was International Women’s Day and today, March 9th, is Barbie’s 50th birthday: the now, iconic hourglass-shaped doll was first introduced at the American Toy Fair in New York City on this day in 1959. International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. Some say →

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When you’re stuck at the airport think: What would Dr. Seuss do?

03/02/09

Photo courtesy the Springfield Museum Today, March 2nd, is the birthday of Theodor Geisel, the author and illustrator better known to all of us as Dr. Seuss. In addition to classics such as “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” he wrote the life/travel advice poem titled “Oh! The Places you’ll go!,” →

Dr. Seuss

A Valentine from NASA and a birthday gift for Galileo

02/11/09

In 1609, 400 years ago, Galileo first turned his telescope towards the sky. Now, to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, Valentine’s Day, and Galileo’s birthday (Feb. 15) NASA is all giving sky lovers a gift. The agency is releasing giant images from its Great Observatories– the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra →

Travel and learn during Black History Month

02/08/09

As you travel around the country during February, keep an eye out for celebrations and exhibitions in honor of Black History Month. In Atlanta, for example, you don’t even need to leave the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport to see an impressive exhibit about Martin Luther King, Jr. that includes the permit from King’s march →

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Anniversary of Beatles touch-down at JFK

02/07/09

On this day, February 7, back in 1964 the world changed dramatically: The Beatles, those adorable moptops, came to New York. (Photo: The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey) The History.com newsletter describes the momentous day this way: On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at →

Free stuff: Win one of 40 free trips in Virginia.

01/27/09

To mark the 40th anniversary of the state’s “Virginia is for Lovers” marketing campaign, Virginia tourism officials are giving away 40 trips in 40 weeks. Each has a different theme. And as far as I can tell even the grand prize options don’t include airfare. But if you live out that way or win a →

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