Here’s a heartwarming story In 2013, the Stuck at the Airport team attended Aviation Geek Fest in Seattle. The annual event was put together by the Boeing Future of Flight aviation center in Everett, WA, Airline Reporter founder David Parker Brown and Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Among the attendees that year were Per Skute and […]
The Stuck at the Airport road trip team visited Oregon recently to check on the status of a World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress that served for years as a roadside attraction along the highway in Milwaukie, OR, not far from Portland. The non-profit B-17 Alliance is restoring the B-17 in Hangar “C” at Oregon’s […]
(Handpainted Mural by Joe Nix) Seattle’s Museum of Flight is already well-known as the largest nonprofit air & space museum. Now the sprawling aviation museum is making a bid for being well-known for commissioning and exhibiting art. The Museum of Flight’s Art+Flight project, running through January 7, 2024, includes dozens of artworks in all mediums by […]
The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has more than 150,000 objects related to the history of commercial aviation and to the airline industry. As part of its 52 Objects series this year, they’ve pulled out this matchbook showing the route map for Continental Airlines. Squeezing as much as possible onto a promotional […]
Here’s a heartwarming story In 2013, the Stuck at the Airport team attended Aviation Geek Fest in Seattle. The annual event was put together by the Boeing Future of Flight aviation center in Everett, WA, Airline Reporter founder David Parker Brown and Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Among the attendees that year were Per Skute and […]
The Stuck at the Airport road trip team visited Oregon recently to check on the status of a World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress that served for years as a roadside attraction along the highway in Milwaukie, OR, not far from Portland. The non-profit B-17 Alliance is restoring the B-17 in Hangar “C” at Oregon’s […]
(Handpainted Mural by Joe Nix) Seattle’s Museum of Flight is already well-known as the largest nonprofit air & space museum. Now the sprawling aviation museum is making a bid for being well-known for commissioning and exhibiting art. The Museum of Flight’s Art+Flight project, running through January 7, 2024, includes dozens of artworks in all mediums by […]
The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has more than 150,000 objects related to the history of commercial aviation and to the airline industry. As part of its 52 Objects series this year, they’ve pulled out this matchbook showing the route map for Continental Airlines. Squeezing as much as possible onto a promotional […]
It’s Souvenir Sunday – a day we look at some of the fun, inexpensive things you can get at airports or, today, aviation museums. Through November, 2016, the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum is hosting an impressive exhibition of photographs by Carolyn Russo exploring the Art of the Airport Tower. StuckatTheAirport.com reader Robert Little went […]
I had the great pleasure of speaking with photographer Carolyn Russo about her book Art of the Airport Tower and the companion exhibition at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum for this story on NBC News. The book is now on my holiday wish list and I’m planning a trip to Washington, D.C. so I […]