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Every week, we look back at a unique airline from the past who contributed to the commercial airline industry of today.  Some of these airlines were successes, others were terrible failures.  We look at each airline from an informed aviation enthusiast (avgeek) perspective.

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A Look Back To The Turbojet Era at Los Angeles’ LAX Airport

Remember the good ole days at Los Angeles International Airport? It was filled with four engined domestic flights on widebodies like the Boeing 747-100 and L-1011. Times have definitely changed…
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Ancient Airlines: Morris Air, The Airline That Made Southwest Nervous

Morris Air was ‘the’ low-cost breakout airline of the 1990s. In an era that featured way more startup airlines than successes, Morris Air was one of the few on track…
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American Trans Air Lived The American Dream Until They Didn’t

Ancient Airlines: A look at unique and quirky airlines throughout aviation history American Trans Air, also known as ATA, was highly successful in its heyday, taking passengers to destinations all…
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Air Florida Couldn’t Overcome Crash, Hijackings and Deregulation

Ancient Airlines: A look at unique and quirky airlines throughout aviation history Air Florida was a short-lived, Miami-based budget carrier that had big ambitions but fell short due to a…
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Hooters Air Was Real, And It Wasn’t A Bad Airline

Ancient Airlines: A look at unique and quirky airlines throughout aviation history It may sound like a bad joke, but yes, Hooters Air was definitely a real airline and, yes,…
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The Time American Fokker F-100s Were Deployed To Crush A Competitor

American flew the jet with just 56 first-class seats to destroy Legend Airlines It might not seem that long ago, but back in the late 1990s, the airline industry was…
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Boeing Actually Tried Rocket Assisted Takeoffs On the 727

It sounds almost too amazing to be true, but Boeing actually tested rockets on the Boeing 727. Their plan wasn’t as crazy as it sounds and it proved to be…
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AirTran U: How College Students Used To Fly For Nearly Free

Boasting the Best of Budget AirTran was founded in the early 1990s as a low-budget airline. It would go on to absorb ValuJet Airlines and then was acquired by Southwest…
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Who Would’ve Guessed that An Airline in Columbus, Ohio Couldn’t Survive On $10 Fares?

No connections, $10 airfares, and poor management…Skybus was a perfect case of poor execution by a startup airline. Skybus was a privately held ultra-low cost airline operating out of Columbus,…
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The Rise and Fall of RenoAir and the Amazing Hybrid American Transition Fleet

When you think of now-defunct domestic airlines throughout the years, you probably remember the big ones — Eastern, Pan Am and etc. In reality, there have been many small airlines that…
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Flashback Friday: A 3-Pronged Blast From The Past

This week’s Flashback Friday covers several topics/themes – family, an airline from the past and an aircraft that has come and (mostly) gone. Aviation Media, Inc., produced a “Wonderful World…
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#AncientAirlines: Passengers Loved Kiwi Airlines But Love Couldn’t Pay The Bills

Kiwi International Airlines typified the saga of starting an airline in the 1990s. With low fares and high quality, Kiwi International Airlines should have been a stand out success story.…
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An unducted fan UHB-270.  Looks alot like a DC-10, right?  This early concept was proposed by McDonnell Douglas in the early 1980s.  The goal was to achieve significantly improved efficiency over the CF-6 engines of the day.  The challenge with the UHB engines was they were very loud and had some vibration issues.  Although development of the engine type was eventually cancelled, the concept eventually paved the way for ultra-efficient engines like the GE-90, albeit with a cowling surrounding the fans.  Check out the full story of this proposed jet and other proposed UHB aircraft on our site. --> www.Avgeekery.com 118 0
Ringing in the new year with a classic Boeing 737-200.  Not many of these left these days in the US.  Hawaii has the largest concentration of jurassic baby Boeings but Canada takes the cake.  Here's hoping that 2021 is way better than 2020 for the aviation industry.  Who is with me? 62 0
So much technical prowess and speed in just one photo. me? 358 11
Fast and slow and awesome all in one photo.  The Concorde was the only Western-built supersonic airliner.  It could travel faster than Mach 2, allowing for a businessman/woman to travel from London to NYC and back in the same day. Then you have Bob Hoover and his unmatchable flying that he did.  We miss him for sure. #avgeek #avgeekery #concorde #washingtondc #bobhoover #udvarhazyairandspacemuseum #udvarhazy 157 3
One of the best photos I ever took.  A Northwest airlines DC-9 prepares for departure from Midway Airport back in 2005. #avgeekery #avgeek #northwestairlines #midwayairport #dc9 #dc930 @delta 110 0
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