Please tune in Tuesday to part 2 of my ‘appearance’ on the Dallas Love Field podcast, Love Field Stories. We’ll be chatting about the great art collection at the airport and learning the stories behind some of the pieces.
Episode 17 of #LoveFieldStories premieres Tuesday on our Facebook & YouTube pages at 12:30 pm! This month’s episode is Part 2 of @hbaskas & Bruce Bleakley’s conversation. If you missed Pt. 1 last month, you’ll definitely want to listen at the link below.https://t.co/E4cG08NopPpic.twitter.com/CwpVahaA8Q
— Dallas Love Field (@DallasLoveField) May 9, 2022
Airport traditions are back: Flowers on Mother’s Day
Since 2009 (except for a pandemic pause) Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) has been handling out carnations to moms traveling through the airport on Mother’s Day. We’re glad to see the tradition continued this year.
Happy Mother's Day! For the moms traveling through the airport today (10 am – 2 pm), there might be a special treat for you in the central courtyard 😉 🍪 #MothersDay2022pic.twitter.com/iH2RGoiIwi
At Midway, we're proud to support our military. For the entire month of May, active service members and veterans will receive 20% off retail and 10% off food and beverage purchases. *Some restrictions apply. pic.twitter.com/dq8VYl1zeN
The two-parter delves into the unique history of the airport and highlights some of the wonderful art that can be spotted in and around the terminal.
The episodes will be live-streamed on Tuesday, April 12, and on May 10 at 12:30 p.m. (Central) on Love Field’s Facebook and YouTube and will include images of many of the historical events and artwork we discuss.
To produce the podcast, DAL teamed me up with Bruce Bleakley, who is an aviation historian and co-author of The Love Evolution: A Centennial Celebration of Love Field Airport and Its Art.
We called it a conversation. But really, it’s me getting to pick the brain of the airport’s historian. I asked Bleakley about how, in 1958, Dallas Love Field’s new terminal building came to have the first moving walkway at any airport in the world. And why there was an ice-skating rink in the terminal. And about the role that Dallas Love Filed played on that day in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas and Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president on the DAL tarmac.
In this two-part podcast, we also learn the stories behind some of the great art that passengers walk over and walk by at DAL.
And I get Bleakley to tell us which city’s name is spelled wrong in the airport’s first commissioned piece of art. A detail he didn’t even share in his book.
I hope you’ll tune in!
Courtesy Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas
Ep. 16 of #LoveFieldStories premieres Tuesday on our Facebook/YouTube pages at 12:30 p.m. featuring author and blogger of Stuck At The Airport, @hbaskas, and aviation consultant/the man who literally wrote the book on Love Field history, Bruce Bleakley. https://t.co/E4cG08vNyhpic.twitter.com/EoOyk4AOqd
Discounts at Boston Logan Airport in honor of the Boston Marathon – plus free socks
To celebrate the return of athletes to Boston for the Boston Marathon, passengers who use the online ordering platform BOS2GO at Boston Logan Airport (BOS) for express pick-up or delivery direct to their gate will receive 26.2% off their order. The discount amount is linked to the length of the marathon – 26.2 miles – and is good through October 13.
Use the code RUNBOS at checkout on the BOS2GO website or scan the QR code on the dedicated signage. Anyone who chooses delivery instead of pickup will also receive a pair of complimentary BOS2GO branded athletic socks.
Colorful Canopies at ATL in honor the Pride Flag
For a second year, Mayor @KeishaBottoms and @ATLairport have illuminated the canopies in the color of the pride flag, in celebration of Atlanta Pride weekend. 🏳️🌈
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport remains open to all, no matter who you are, or who you love. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ pic.twitter.com/WjS4BmdkQo
Here’s a short video tour of some of the art at Dallas Love Field. It seems to be designed for kids but anyone will enjoy seeing and learning about some of the great artwork at DAL Love Field.
In 2021. Dallas’ NorthPark Center will present#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit,which will feature 123 3-D printed statues of contemporary women working in the STEM professions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
In the meantime, 15 of those statues are on display through March 9, 2021, at Dallas Love Field. Included in the group are 10 statues that portray women who work in aviation or aerospace-related fields, including astrophysicists, a rocket scientist, and an aviation maintenance technician.
To create the statues each subject stands in a scanning booth that uses 89 cameras and 25 projectors to generate a 3D image. A special machine then takes up to ten hours to slowly build up the layers of acrylic gel that make the statue.
Here’s a list of the women whose statues are in the DAL pop-up exhibit.
1. Adriana Bailey – Atmospheric Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research 2. Charita Castro – Social Science Researcher, Office of the US Trade Representative 3. Xyla Foxlin – Engineer, Entrepreneur, and Nonprofit Director, Beauty and the Bolt 4. Miriam Fuchs – Telescope Systems Specialist, East Asian Observatory 5. Joyonna Gamble-George – Health Scientist, National Institutes of Health 6. Erika Hamden – Professor of Astrophysics, University of Arizona 7. Kelly Korreck – Astrophysicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 8. Adele Luta – Scientist and Innovator, Oceaneering 9. Jenn Makins – STEM Educator and Inventor, Parish Episcopal School 10. Amanda Masino – Biologist, Professor and Research Director, Huston-Tillotson University 11. Tiffany Panko – Women’s Health Researcher, Rochester Institute of Technology 12. Jasmine Sadler – Dancing Rocket Scientist and STEAM Entrepreneur, The STEAM Collaborative 13. Nikki Sereika – Aviation Maintenance Technician, Southwest Airlines 14. Nicole Sharp – Aerospace Engineer and Science Communicator, Sharp Science Communication Consulting 15. Mary Beth Westmoreland – Vice President, Amazon
And here’s a short time-lapse video of the statues being installed.