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

The aviation world celebrates a huge milestone today.  Pan American introduced the Boeing 747 into commercial service 40 years ago on January 21/22, 1970.  PanAm Flight #2 from New York JFK to London Heathrow was scheduled to have left at 7:30 pm on January 21, but an engine problem forced an aircraft change.  N736PA, Clipper Victor, finally departed at 1:52 am on January 22.

First a bit of housekeeping:  Regular Nuts About Southwest readers will know that I posted some photos last Friday from our archives.  We are planning to make this a regular feature, and we are going to call these posts “Flashback Fridays” and tag them ac

It’s been awhile since we opened the Southwest archives vault, but we have some goodies for you today.  We found these large format black and white air-to-air photos of our very first aircraft, N20SW.

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