Nuts About Southwest

Featured Picture:  -800_1.jpg Normally, I write about the past, but this post is about history in the making.  As ... read more

Featured Picture:  fbf_followup_reg_placard.jpg In last Friday's Flashback post, I shared a photo of Rollin King that was taken in the ... read more

Featured Picture:  swa-max8_newwnglt_pr-1111.jpg  Boeing's 737 has allowed Southwest Airlines to fly to greatness, and conversely, Southwest’s longtime support has played a ... read more

Most airline geeks know that the 737-700 was the first of Boeing’s Next Generation (NG) 737s to enter service.  The -600, -700, -800, and -900 represent major improvements in range, emissions, and carrying capacity over the Classic Generation’s -300, -400, and -500 aircraft.  In turn, the Classics were a quantum leap over the two Originals models, the 737-100 and the 737-200 378 ... read more

I think it’s time for some more photos of Southwest Airlines aircraft and hot pants from the early days.  While rummaging through our files recently, I found another bunch of slides and negatives that I had never seen before.  Especially for the 1970s, we have a lot of photos that were taken for promotional purposes, which were used once or twice, and then stored away and forgotten.  For 82 ... read more