Tag Archive: Off the Runway

Come fly with them: Upcoming ‘Pan Am’ TV show capitalizes on ’60s airline style – latimes.com

Pan Am is coming back — to the airwaves, that is. Pan American Airways, the giant airline that virtually defined air travel from 1927 until its demise in 1991, will get a “Mad Men”-like treatment on a TV show set to debut on ABC in the fall. The “Pan Am” show, which is scheduled to …

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Lenny Dykstra’s plane Finally Leaves Hopkins on March 31, 2011 – OPShots.net

Or at least he thinks it’s his. Former New York Mets and Phillies player turned car-wash mogul and homeless man living in his car, Lenny Dykstra has had his share of ups and downs lately, none of which occurred in the Gulfstream II jet he still believes he owns.  On December 13, 2010, Dykstra filed …

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Predicting Contrails – Contrail Science

Sometimes planes leave contrails, and sometimes they don’t. It depends on the weather, and specifically it depends on the weather at altitude. It’s also very localized. A plane might leave a trail in one region, and another plane a mile away might not leave a trail. NASA have put together a contrail forecast page that …

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To the moon and back 75 times, Tulsa Tech Gets Retired AA MD-80 – NewsOn6 KOTV

Ownership of the MD-80 was transferred at the ceremony at American’s Tulsa Maintenance and Engineering Base at Tulsa International Airport. Governor Mary Fallin was on hand for the ceremony. The MD-80, which flew a total of 36 million miles, went into service in 1985. Inside, everything from the seats for passengers to the avionics for …

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