aviation history

A while back, we wrote about how you can quickly tell whether you’re looking at a Boeing or Airbus aircraft just by glancing at a few key design features (that …

LaGuardia Airport (LGA) has undergone an amazing transformation over the past decade. The outdated decor and poor design are gone, and in their place are the new Terminal B and …

Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) is the main international airport serving Chicago, Illinois. It began as an airfield serving a Douglas manufacturing plant for C-54 military transports during World War …

I’ve been traveling for enough years that I’ve seen lots of airlines come and go. Of course, there are lots of airlines that disappeared and I knew nothing about them, …

Over the years, we’ve gone over a lot of reasons why certain things on planes are the way they are. These are some of them: Why some planes’ emergency exit …

When you cater to people who may or may not speak/read/understand the primary language(s) of an area, companies will often offer instructions that are only in picture form, with no …

Have you ever noticed that if you have a reservation on a commercial airline, you almost always board and disembark on the plane’s left side? Have you ever wondered why …

You’ve just boarded your aircraft and maybe you’re feeling a little smug because you already know so much stuff, like why planes still have ashtrays (even though smoking on planes …

The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of Florida. At more than 4,300 square miles, it’s deemed the largest subtropical wilderness in the United …

I’ve always liked numbers. Numbers and statistics. I was the kid who would count things, just for the sake of counting them (as Halloween and Christmas approached, if we were …