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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 →

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: →

San Diego Airport & the Panama-California Exposition

03/26/15

As part of San Diego’s year-long celebration for the centennial of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, San Diego International Airport is hosting a year-long exhibition celebrating San Diego’s 1915 Panama-California Exposition. The exhibit is airport-wide, with 30 installations, and includes original artwork and historic images, collectibles, artifacts and large-format photographs and postcards that show off the →

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 →

On the auction block: Elvis Presley’s planes

01/03/15

If you’ve been to Graceland you’ve probably seen them. Now you can own them. Two of Elvis Presley’s private planes, the Lisa Marie and Hound Dog II, both of which have been on display at Graceland for more than thirty years, are headed for the auction block. One plane is a Convair 880 Jet that →

85th anniversary for Hawaiian Airlines

11/08/14

Hawaiian Airlines is celebrating its 85th anniversary on Tuesday, November 11 and, in preparation, the airline has been reflecting on its past. They’ve put out this lavishly illustrated book celebrating and documenting the company’s history. The airline has also been going through its archives and shared these photos of the evolution of its uniforms. →

Travel by barrel?

10/24/14

Planes, trains, buses, cars, bicycles and skateboards are common, modern modes of travel. But on October 24 in 1901, Annie Edson Taylor – on her 63rd birthday – became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She survived, and since then others have given it a try – in barrels, a →

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