Flying Archive

  • One of my favorite places to visit near Seattle is the Museum of Flight near Boeing Field in Seattle. If you love airplanes this is a great place to catch up on the history of aviation near where commercial airlines began. This is the largest air and space museum in the world and while I've visited this museum twice I still have not seen it all!

    Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle

    Posted on January 25, 2012 | 13 Comments
    One of my favorite places to visit near Seattle is the Museum of Flight near Boeing Field in Seattle. If you love airplanes this is a great place to catch up on the history of aviation near where commercial airlines began. This is the largest air and space museum in the world and while I've visited this museum twice I still have not seen it all!

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  • Based on the interest level from last week's TPThursday post, I've decided to run a part 2 to show a few more pictures from the Hong Kong Museum of History including some YouTube goodness of planes landing at the old Kai Tak airport!

    Hong Kong Museum of History Part 2

    Posted on December 8, 2011 | 8 Comments
    Based on the interest level from last week's TPThursday post, I've decided to run a part 2 to show a few more pictures from the Hong Kong Museum of History including some YouTube goodness of planes landing at the old Kai Tak airport!

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  • We were flying home from Los Angeles and this was taken around 8pm somewhere over Seattle. I really liked the contrast of the cool moonlit wing and the constant blinking red light coming from under the plane. When I saw the city lights peeking through the clouds I had to reach for my trusty Canon S90 point and shoot.

    Travel Photo Thursday: Alaska Airlines 737 Engine

    Posted on November 9, 2011 | 14 Comments
    We were flying home from Los Angeles and this was taken around 8pm somewhere over Seattle. I really liked the contrast of the cool moonlit wing and the constant blinking red light coming from under the plane. When I saw the city lights peeking through the clouds I had to reach for my trusty Canon S90 point and shoot.

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  • On our trip to Seattle last week I made sure to visit the Museum of Flight. Located just south of Seattle at Boeing field, the museum is also home to my favorite airplane: Concorde. Concorde was the first airplane to capture my imagination as a child and I regret not having had a chance to fly on any of them.This particular plane, G-BOAG (aka Alpha Golf) has a pretty interesting history. Originally called G-BFKW, it had no buyer after manufacture so BA used it as a spare and even used it for spare parts for awhile!

    Travel Photo Thursday: Concorde at the Museum of Flight

    Posted on September 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
    On our trip to Seattle last week I made sure to visit the Museum of Flight. Located just south of Seattle at Boeing field, the museum is also home to my favorite airplane: Concorde. Concorde was the first airplane to capture my imagination as a child and I regret not having had a chance to fly on any of them.This particular plane, G-BOAG (aka Alpha Golf) has a pretty interesting history. Originally called G-BFKW, it had no buyer after manufacture so BA used it as a spare and even used it for spare parts for awhile!

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  • I was pretty excited to climb aboard the Boeing 777. I've been on Cathay and Air Canada versions of the plane and thought they were both very cool. It never ceases to amaze me how enormous the wings and engines are on a 777. American flies both the 777-200ER and the 777-300ER, but I believe that they use the 200 on the Heathrow route which are just shy of 200 feet from wingtip to wingtip. The fans on the Trent 892 engines have a fan diameter of a little over 9 feet!

    YVR DFW LHA (Part2): AA 777 Business Class to Heathrow

    Posted on August 9, 2011 | No Comments
    I was pretty excited to climb aboard the Boeing 777. I've been on Cathay and Air Canada versions of the plane and thought they were both very cool. It never ceases to amaze me how enormous the wings and engines are on a 777. American flies both the 777-200ER and the 777-300ER, but I believe that they use the 200 on the Heathrow route which are just shy of 200 feet from wingtip to wingtip. The fans on the Trent 892 engines have a fan diameter of a little over 9 feet!

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