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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 […]

Black History Month at Atlanta Airport

02/07/12

Black History Month at Atlanta Airport.

Museum Monday: early flight gear at SFO Museum

02/06/12

Early airplanes had open cockpits and aviators needed special equipment and protective gear in order to do their jobs. Examples of some of those items are now on exhibit at the San Francisco International Airport. Flight Gear: Pilot Equipment from the Open-Cockpit Era features more than forty examples of flight suits, jackets, helmets, goggles […]

The Beatles – and others – at MSP International Airport

01/06/12

MSP's Terminal 1-Lindbergh turn 50. Its history includes pay toilets, a major film role and a visit from the Beatles.

Love the layover: more offbeat museums

05/17/11

More unusual museums, including the Giant Shoe Museum, the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, and the Oscar Getz Museum if Whiskey History.

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