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By Ann on January 1, 2010
Recently made a trip up to former Northwest Airlines headquarters in Minneapolis/St. Paul with Delta Museum Director Tiffany Meng. Side note: It was fun for this native Atlantan to see snow before January – not that we often see it then! We were there to collect some amazing Asian airport facilities drawings, found by Brian Ruppert in Corporate Real Estate, [...]
Posted in Airlines | Tagged airlines, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Anchorage, Asia, Atlanta, Brian Ruppert, Canada, Chitose, Clay Tice, Delta, Director Tiffany Meng, Douglas DC-, Edmonton, Hokkaido, hokkaido japan, Japan, Manager
Source, Manila, Marie Force, Minneapolis, native atlantan, northwest airlines, Northwest Douglas, Pacific, Peters, Seoul, Service, Shanghai, St. Paul, Tokyo, U.S. |
By Ann on December 30, 2009
Leave the holiday rush behind and take a little aerial tour with us in one of Northwest Airlines’ first Douglas DC-3s. See what Northwest’s hometown, the Minneapolis/St Paul area of Minnesota, looked like in 1939. We’re ready to go from Northwest’s hangar at the municipal airport near downtown St. Paul (now Holman Field): View of the Mississippi River and St. [...]
Posted in Airlines | Tagged airlines, airport, downtown minneapolis, Manager
Source, Marie Force, Minneapolis, minneapolis st paul, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Northwest, northwest airlines, St. Paul |
By Ann on December 11, 2009
In its heyday, the invitation-only Flying Colonel was one of air transportation’s coveted citations. The first ”Flying Colonels of the Delta Fleet” were frequent flyers, supporters of Delta and the air transport industry in 1953, but the program has an earlier history. Delta inherited the Flying Colonels in our merger with Chicago and Southern (C&S) Air Lines in 1953. The program was the [...]
Posted in Airlines | Tagged air transport industry, Betty Jeanne Claffey, C.E. Woolman, Chicago, Colonel, Delta, delta air lines, Flying, George E. Bounds, Manager
Source, Marie Force, Memphis, memphis commercial appeal, Program, S Director-, Tommy, Tommy Alexander, Wales, Windsor |
By Ann on December 11, 2009
In its heyday, the invitation-only Flying Colonel was one of air transportation’s coveted citations. The first ”Flying Colonels of the Delta Fleet” were frequent flyers, supporters of Delta and the air transport industry in 1953, but the program has an earlier history. Delta inherited the Flying Colonels in our merger with Chicago and Southern (C&S) Air Lines in 1953. The program was the [...]
Posted in Airlines | Tagged air transport industry, Betty Jeanne Claffey, C.E. Woolman, Chicago, Colonel, Delta, delta air lines, Flying, George E. Bounds, Manager
Source, Marie Force, Memphis, memphis commercial appeal, Program, S Director-, Tommy, Tommy Alexander, Wales, Windsor |
By Ann on December 4, 2009
The Delta Museum has been working hard this year to collect and preserve Northwest Airlines history in the Delta Corporate Archives housed in Atlanta. A highlight of the incoming materials has turned out to be 2 small photo albums of black and white photos taken in 1939. They show what it was like to fly and work in Northwest’s [...]
Posted in Airlines | Tagged Atlanta, Delta, Douglas DC-, Manager
Source, Marie Force, Minnesota, modern airliner, Mr. John Q. Public, Museum, northwest airlines, Northwest Capt, Russ Sorkness, St. Paul, thermos bottles, year |