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…”
Ah, pleasure! Thanks a million for that link! I love airlines and air travel but, like you and unlike the true plane spotters, I don’t care much for the technicals. Of course, you already know about airliners.net, so I’m not going to tell you about it.
For sure! And here are a couple more links. Unlock those tray tables for more airline meals than one ever needs to see in a lifetime. And direct your attention to the safety card in the seatback pocket in front of you: check out the hilarious Airtoons.
And, courtesy of Gizmodo, here is another source for (retro-style) travel accessories, Flight 001.
Erg. That last link actually came courtesy of Boing Boing, not Gizmodo. My bad.
They’re both great sites, though.