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Jimmy Carter exhibit at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Int’l Airport

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A new exhibit at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: Jimmy Carter: Georgia’s Native Son,” uses mementos, photographs and artifacts to tell the story of the South Georgia peanut farmer who become the state’s 76th governor and eventually the nation’s 39th president.


Jimmy Carter: Georgia’s Native Son is displayed in the walkway connecting the main security screening area and Concourse T and will be at ATL through July 2011.  The exhibit is part of a larger exhibit at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum near downtown Atlanta.

Photos courtesy Hartsfield-Jackson Altanta International Airport

Grimms’ Fairy Tales at Dane County Regional Airport

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A National Geographic website about Grimms’ Fairy Tales offers these words of advice:

“Looking for a sweet, soothing tale to waft you toward dreamland?  Look somewhere else.”


That’s because the stories Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected in the early 1800’s don’t always have happy endings. There are witches. There are wolves. And there are creatures and plot turns kids (and some adults) shouldn’t read about before bedtime.

But if you’re wide awake and passing through the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin, you’ll definitely want to spend time perusing the books, prints, engravings, and historical documents in the airport’s new exhibition:  Once upon a time … – The Brothers Grimm – Life and Work, on view through June 25, 2010.

And when you’re in the terminal, don’t forget to look up: a full-size Corben Super Ace airplane – like the ones built in Madison in the 1930’s – is suspended from the ceiling. Volunteers from the Madison chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association built this plane using original 1930s plans.

Singapore’s Changi Airport celebrates Year of the Tiger

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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” fire-fighting suit worn by airport emergency officers:

And here’s a bench in the Changi Aviation Gallery that doubles as a scale to show how airports tally up the weight of baggage.

(Photos courtesy Changi Airport Group)

Love the layover: straight to the moon from Düsseldorf Airport

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Next weekend, February 6 and 7, 2010, visitors to the Düsseldorf International Airport will be entertained by skiers and snowboarders performing stunts and jumps on a 130-foot long ski slope set up right in the shopping arcade of the terminal.

Pretty impressive by itself, but if you’re heading to Düsseldorf to see the world’s first indoor ski jump at an airport, you may as well go visit the moon.

(The ‘Largest Moon on Earth’ – sculpture and photo by Wolfgang Volz)

A reproduction and exhibit of the solar system — including an 82-foot wide moon sculpture that is the largest moon sculpture in the world — is on display inside a 380-foot tall former gas container, in nearby Oberhausen.

The exhibit, Out of this World – Wonders of the Solar System, also includes impressive replicas of the sun and its planets and is open through December 30, 2010 as one of the projects of “Ruhr 2010”, a year-long series of art events and exhibits in Germany’s Rhine Ruhr area, near Düsseldorf.

Bear spotted at Reno-Tahoe International Airport

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You know that old saying, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade”?

Well the folks at Reno-Tahoe International Airport have taken a pesky bear and made a new airport display.

Last year, officials killed a 400-pound Black Bear that was attacking livestock in a residential area 10 miles south of the airport.  Today that bear – “preserved” and named Wu Daa-a (the Paiute word for bear) – is on display at the airport, adjacent to the security checkpoint for Concourse B.

(Photo courtesy Heidi Jared at Reno-Tahoe International Airport)

They’re not stopping with bear. In the next few months, more “harvested” Nevada wild animals, including a Mountain Lion and Big Horn Sheep, will be showing up at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport as well.

Something to keep in mind next time you’re feeling a bit sassy at the security checkpoint.