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Brian Lusk |
Of all our bloggers, I am probably the oldest, but I don’t feel my age. I was born in 1952, just a couple of blocks from the Santa Fe Railway’s main transcontinental line in Clovis, New Mexico to an airline father, so transportation (planes and trains) got in my blood at an early age. As a child, my fondest memories are spending days at work with my dad on the ramp in Amarillo, Texas and on the old observation deck at Dallas Love Field. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in Dallas as a journalism major, I got my first airline job with Delta in 1976. During my time at Delta, I worked at Dallas/Fort Worth (during three separate occasions), Detroit, Oakland, Atlanta (at the old terminal), Portland, Oregon, Paris Orly, and Dayton, Ohio. My 18½ years with Delta were split between ramp/operations and ticket counter/gates.
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Pics from the Blizzard Frontlines |
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A month or so ago, we ran photos from Ray Stark that illustrated the first "storm of the winter" in Baltimore/Washington (BWI). Well, the area around the nation's capital was hit again this weekend, and our folks there are calling it "Snowmageddon."
Categories: Airports, Working at Southwest Feb 09, 2010 |
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Flashback Fridays--Interim Liveries Part One |
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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 |
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Next stop, paint shop |
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Thanks for your comments. Greg W, I don't think it is getting winglets, that is a separate program. As to the overhead size, there is just a size difference between the -300/-500 and the -700. Matt C. thanks for the video link. We hope to have our own up in the near future. DFWxpress the 1940 Museum is well worth a visit.
Brian
The process began in 2001 with the delivery of two brand new 737-700s in our new Canyon Blue livery to mark our 30th Anniversary. Starting that year, all new deliveries to Southwest arrived wearing the new colors, and we began to repaint the existing fleet in the new col |
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Next stop, paint shop |
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Drew,
Six weeks is pretty normal for overhaul. They essentially gut the entire airplane down to the airframe and rebuild it.
Brian
The process began in 2001 with the delivery of two brand new 737-700s in our new Canyon Blue livery to mark our 30th Anniversary. Starting that year, all new deliveries to Southwest arrived wearing the new colors, and we began to repaint the existing fleet in the new col |
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Flashback Fridays--A Look Back at Dallas Love Field |
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From the day the current Dallas Love Field terminal opened on January 20, 1958, the facility has been under constant modification. Upper levels to concourses were added, the terminal expanded then contracted, operations shifted, and now the next renovation is underway which will consolidate all the gates into a new, state of the art concourse, along with new lobby areas. One time of grea |
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