Celebrating Black History Month: Southwest Airlines becomes a proud national sponsor of the Black Voice

• By: Hardy Brown II
• 02-08-10
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We are honored to have a guest post from Hardy Brown II, the Executive Director of The Black Voice Foundation:

Over the last 12 years, educators from Southern California's Inland
region, have learned first hand about the incredible courage of the

Celebrating Black History Month--Contemplation: My Friends, My Heroes

• By: Lou Freeman
• 02-08-10
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A man with no sense of his past has no future as he is destined to the same pitfalls of his forefathers.  With that thought in mind, I contemplate my past, present, and future. It is something that I usually do as Black History Month draws near. My own barometer for “ how goes it?”

Flashback Fridays--Interim Liveries Part One

• By: Brian Lusk
• 02-05-10
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I’ve always been interested in what I call interim color schemes.  These are when one airline acquires an aircraft from another and then operates the airplane while it is wearing the original livery with only a few changes.  Enthusiast photographers value shots of aircraft in interim liveries because they are so temporary.  My own intrigue with the subject began as a child when I flew on