Photos and the occasional story about cars, trains, boats, and airplanes.
One of the more interesting things at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica is this “airplane”. In fact, this is actually a replica of a Lockheed Vega. It is a movie prop that was made for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. At first it looks exactly …
One of the things that makes visiting a museum especially interesting is discovering something that you did not expect to see. In this case, I was at the Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport and came across this amazing display. This is the actual desk that Donald Douglas …
The photo you see here is a cockpit of a Convair 240. Specifically, this is a CV-240 that was built for the Air Force. The 240 was a twin engine passenger aircraft. One of the things that made it special was that it was pressurized. Up until the introduction of …
As we get ready for another trip from here to there, our thoughts turn to which airplane we will be flying on, and what sort of airplanes we will be on in the future. There’s been a lot of talk in the aviation and travel industry about the new aircraft …
If you have been reading the posts here, you may recall some photos from a trip to Alaska back in ’65. For any number of reasons that was quite a vacation. One of the highlights was, for me, my first airplane flight. We flew from Seattle-Tacoma to Anchorage on Pacific …
