Airtime travel
If you share my love for all things retro-travel, check out Airchive, an online museum of commercial aviation, including collections of route maps, print ads, and other assorted airline paraphernalia. Note: the site is graphics intensive, which was fine when I visited it earlier at work, but it’s noticeably slow in loading on my dial-up connection here at home. (Link via kottke.org.)
Yeah, I’m a real wingnut. More of an airline—rather than pure aviation—junkie, I suppose. Like, I won’t even pretend to know how these planes work, but I could describe, for example, the seating configurations of most commercial airliners. I have a little plastic model of a Boeing 747 in KLM livery, which I bought at a shop in the main Dulles terminal a couple of years ago. I keep it on the windowsill in my office, and sometimes in lazy moments I pick it up and play with it, sotto voce announcements and all. “Flight attendants, please be seated for arrival…”