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Helsinki Airport art cinema & Earhart’s plane twin

10/04/13

Helsinki Airport just opened a relaxation area. Now there’s yet another cool amenity at that airport: an art cinema. For the next six month’s the airport’s art gallery at gate 37 will be hosting an Art Cinema and showing the work of Finnish media artists. First up: films about the Finnish people’s relationship with →

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 →

At SFO: Flight Attendant Celebration Day

08/19/13

Flight Attendant Celebration Day at SFO Airport - August 20, 2013 →

Flight Attendant Celebration Day at SFO Airport

08/06/13

Flight Attendant Celebration Day at SFO Airport →

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 →

Photos of Wonder Woman’s Invisible Airplane

04/03/13

There were plenty of aviation-related pranks pulled earlier this week for April Fools’ Day, but by far the best one was this press release sent out by Seattle’s Museum of Flight announcing a three day exhibit featuring Wonder Woman’s invisible plane. The description of the plane was intriguing: “Developed using still-mysterious Amazon stealth technology decades →

In Alaska: goodbye sled dogs; hello airplanes.

02/09/13

One hundred years after the first powered flight in Alaska, the Anchorage Museum on Saturday opens a major exhibition celebrating the rich and remarkable stamp aviation has had on the Frontier State. That history began as a spectacle. In 1913, several Fairbanks merchants got together to ship a biplane from Seattle to Alaska by →

Happy Birthday San Antonio International Airport

07/23/12

In 2013, San Antonio International Airport will officially celebrate 60 years as an airport, but this month marks the 70th anniversary of the airport’s role as an airfield. In 1941, the city of San Antonio bought 1,200 acres of land for the purposes of building an airport. But World War II came along and →

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An animated history of aviation

02/08/12

This lovely, short video produced at Utah Valley University hits many of the highlights of the history of aviation, from Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches of flying machines to modern day space travel. →

The Beatles and JFK Airport

02/07/12

(Re-posting 2/7/12) Thanks to ThisDayin History.com for the reminder that on this day, February 7, back in 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport with its special cargo of Beatles. According to History.com: It was the first visit to the United States by →

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