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

Unlike the past few “Flashback Fridays” post, this one is a bit more current—like today or maybe next week.  However, it still has historical value.  Today we say goodbye to a trusted member of our fleet as N680AA heads off on its final flight.  The

My Fellow Aviation Geeks know that Southwest Airlines retired our last 737-200 on January 17, 2005.  I was one of the lucky Employees (wearing pajamas designed for the event, no less) to have been selected for the hour-long flight onboard N95SW.  Our flight path that day took us down to the Waco area where Captains Jim Rice and Jeff Kilponen turned the airplane around back to Dallas for the