How Time Flies

Here's a retro pic from an open house at the Long Beach Bird Farm some years ago.

And this afternoon, when that young lad graduated from Cal Poly!

Wright Brothers First Flight

Orville and Wilbur Wright built this flight of stairs in their family home years before they flew that plane in 1903.

Professional Driver

United Airlines Boeing 747 LAX 1970

Tried to fit as many "elements" as we could into each picture back then.

Destiny Laboratory

Destiny module under construction in 2000. Launched 2001; STS-98 (Atlantis).

We didn't take the picture below. But that's where Destiny is now.

James Bond Goldfinger Lockheed JetStar

Correct protocol would have been for the blue field of the flags to be at the front of the aircraft. The orientation shown gives the impression of the flag flying backwards.

Auger of the Week Contest Winner

Contest has closed, no more submissions please.

Hawaiian Airlines New Premium Seats

Pictures and details in the link HERE .

Bell 30 NX41860

Crazy picture. I mean, why does a helicopter need four wheels?

747 N744ST Global Supertanker Aerial Fire Fighting Tanker KCOS

Dumps at 1:35. Originally a JAL Sky Cruiser c/n 25308.
        

Barbie Beach

Photo by unknown quantity.

Thunderbirds Are Go - Trailer - 2016 - Amazon

          

Aerobridge Control Panel

Invisible Invaders 1959

Testing the Dell Venue 8 7000 on Airplanes

Sophisticated Android software can precisely measure distances.

Here we see HAL23 on glide path descending out of 3 million feet.

Testing the iPhone 6S on Airplanes

No editing except for crop and downsize.

Hawaii Nonstop Flight

The Pacific Golden Plover (Kolea) offers seasonal migration flights between Alaska and Hawaii.

They have been recorded at FL200 at over 100 mph, with 2 WFPS (wing flaps per second) during the 2,500 mile nonstop.

And they can't swim.

Their motto: Ai no ke kolea a momona hoi i Kahiki! 

Union Pacific 7353 GE ES44AC

LBBC.

1958 Edsel Aero Cabana

Practical and stylish.

Canadian North 737-300 C-GCNZ Miami

This baby reported an APU fire on final approach back in '14.

Photo by LBBC. Or Dan. 

2006 Hertz Shelby GT-H Mustang

Parked next to "some other Shelby."

Just a Facade

SEXYJET Gulfstream N888XY

              

T-Shirt of the Day Contest Winner

The First Boeing 727 N7001U United

              

Happy Hooligans 119th ND Air Guard F4 Phantom

2016 Renault RS16 F1 Car

Renault has become the first F1 constructor to reveal their new car for the upcoming season.

It has an aerodynamical nose wing.

VP-COR Gulfstream VI

Photo by anonymous, spotted at TUPJ.  Cool plane with all those windows.

Alaska Airlines New Livery

N563AS arriving Kahului today from Anchorage as AS824 .

Extraterrestrial Angst

Happy Australia Day !

MGM Grand Air

Jesus Action Figure

Packaging did not describe what actions could be expected.

Hollywood Park - New L.A. Rams Stadium

Naming rights awarded. Rams will lose their games in "Randy's Donuts Stadium."

Powerball Odds Explained by Airplane Life

Start by printing out one Powerball ticket for each of all possible number combinations.

Then place each ticket on a seat in a United Airlines 787-9 Dreamliner. Keep placing tickets on seats and fill up as many 787's as required.

Arrange all of the 787's nose to tail, nose to tail.

RESULTS:

The string of 787's would completely circle the Earth.

And you'd still have 521,491 Dreamliners left over!

Good Luck, and we hope you are sitting in the correct seat on the correct plane.

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Below are the numbers you'll need to verify our results.

Powerball odds to win jackpot: 1:292,201,338

Seats on a United 787-9 : 252

Length of a 787-9: 62.81 meters

Circumference of Earth: 40,075.16 kilometers

Star Wars

Star Wars - still just as cool as when it first came out.  

                                                          

LAX Terminal 4 American Airlines Then & Now

It's a sad state of affairs when 737's sit where there were once 747's and DC-10's.

Happy New Year

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein

San Bernardino International Airport KSBD

Despite the name, there are no international flights. Go with LAX.

Icelandair TF-FIR 757-256/W "Askja"

Askja is the name of a volcano in the highlands of North Iceland. The last eruption was in 1961.

Merry Christmas

**Airplane Life Classics**
             

Sixth Ear by Pascal

Sixth Ear?

The Classic C-9

Nothing says "Christmas" quite like the classic C-9.

Speaking of classic C-9's, here's one from Derin.

Derin has some great pictures on Jet Photos, you can see them HERE .

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Lufthansa 747 Advertisement 1970's

American Airlines 747 Advertisement 1970's

Virgin America N282VA "Judy Ann"

Seen today arriving OGG from SFO as Redwood 039.

N401WN Southwest Airlines

Arriving Las Vegas and taking the Pledge of Allegiants.

Invisible Invaders - 1959

If the aliens from another galaxy already have the ability to make themselves completely invisible, what is the strategic advantage to be gained by transforming into zombies that everyone can see?