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Speaking of Amelia Earhart photographs *

eddie-meyer-airplane-aaa.jpg In addition to the relaxed Amelia Earhart photo I posted again earlier this week, the Automobile Club of Southern California Archives has some more nice photos of her in Burbank. Gotta love this one.

Amelia Earhart's LA connections

Earhart at Lockheed.jpg Hard to know what to make of the latest project to go look in the Pacific for Amelia Earhart's missing plane from 1937. Probably nothing at all, like every other...

Ansel Adams' 'lost' LA photos to go on display

ansel-oil-lacienega-beverly-lapl.jpg The images of 1940 Los Angeles that photographer Ansel Adams shot for Fortune magazine, then put away and forgot for awhile, are getting their first public display other than on websites.

Dangerous threats to America nabbed at LAX

brits-blocked-at-lax.jpg Oh sorry, it was just two British tourists on holiday. Were they sent home because of tweets?

Photo: $4 billion in warplanes over the Valley

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Photo: B-2 bombers circle over the northeast San Fernando Valley this morning before the Rose Parade flyover.
Photo: Roger Vargo/Explore Historic California

LAX returning to normal after power outage

lax-powerout-113011.jpg All passenger terminals and runway 25R were affected by an hour-long power outage tonight at Los Angeles International Airport.

Mary Grady to be spokesperson for LAX

Mary Grady, the LAPD spokesperson for ten years until this past June, has been named Director of Public and Media Relations at Los Angeles World Airports.

California and the rise and fall of America’s space program

sr71blackbird_300.jpg With the space shuttle gliding into retirement, Deanne Stillman has a nice piece at Truthdig on the local origins of the U.S. space program.

Lockheed in camouflage

lockheed-war-after.jpg These pictures reemerge every so often, but they are always interesting. These are World War II shots of Lockheed Aircraft, a major builder of war planes at Burbank Airport,...

Van Nuys Airport no longer special

vny-exangbase-lao.jpg Valley boosters used to take pride in the stat that Van Nuys Airport was the busiest in the country, due mostly to all the private pilots and students who flew there. Now traffic has fallen to 1963 levels.

LAX food fight gets even more political

Everything around the LAX retail concessions is about politics and the practice of influence — do you think services that disappointing and overpriced would fly in the real world?

Burt Rutan retires from aviation and California

Burt_Rutan_2.jpg Five planes designed by Mojave aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan hang in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

They still dream of space flight out in the Mojave

Mojave_Launch_Lab3.jpg Nice feature in Smithsonian Air & Space on the private and amateur rocket teams figuring out space flight of the future way out in the Mojave Desert.

Best defense for LAX is 1) punctuality 2) many planes

Effort to defend LAX against criticism lands a little short of the runway.

Prominent developers among five dead in LB plane crash

The crash Wednesday morningat Long Beach Airport claimed Tom Dean and Jeff Berger, developers at LCW Partners who were involved in a city of Long Beach land swap for the Los Cerritos Wetlands, and Mark Bixby, a bicycle advocate and member of one of Long Beach's founding families.

L.A. losing out to proper 'aerotropolises'

A new book on the importance of world-class airports suggests that Los Angeles is being passed over in global commerce due to LAX.

Mystery jet skids off runway at Van Nuys *

vny-mystery-jet.jpg Men with plastic sheeting rush out and cover the words Policia Federal: now we're intrigued.

Photo: This is only a drill

lafd-live-fire-trng-lax.jpg Live-fire training for the LAFD at LAX early on Tuesday morning.

Travel day *

I'll be out of pocket most of the day. My posting will be lighter through the week. * Update: Went through LAX Terminal 3 this morning virtually without breaking stride,...

Villaraigosa to walk through LAX body scanner

The mayor will be at Terminal 6 about noon to go through the scanner, as part of a photo op aimed at heading off chaos at the airport during the crazy Thanksgiving travel period.

Proof that Daily Beast is out of touch?

The news site that's merging with Newsweek has rated LAX the fourth-best big U.S. airport, after Phoenix, Seattle and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky. Best, not worst.

Trutanich weighs into LAX concessions, helps HMS Host

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has recommended that the City Council's Board of Referred Powers disqualify the group of restaurants bidding against incumbent LAX concessionaire HMS Host, whose top lobbyist is a campaign contributor.

LAX Theme Building all spiffed up

lax-theme-bldg-nyt.jpg I noticed at LAX the other day that the skin is back on the iconic Theme Building, with a fresh coat of white paint. Renovation only took, what, three years? New York Times bureau chief Jennifer Steinhauer explained the meaning of it all this weekend for the out-of-towners.

LAX as metaphor for America's decline

Thomas Friedman, the New York Times' well-read Op-Ed columnist, starts his latest column on America's need to be more innovative and competitive with a short riff on how bad Los Angeles International Airport looks.

When JFK closes a runway, we all feel it

jfk-airport-taxiway.jpg Airfares from LAX to New York are heading higher — and delays will be more numerous — because of four months of repair work on the long runway at JFK.

Southwest cancels flights at Burbank, Ontario and OC

The airline is canceling most arrivals and departures this afternoon at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, and in Ontario, Orange County, San Diego, Phoenix and Tucson, because of high wind conditions.

End of the Aerospace Century in SoCal

Earhart at Lockheed.jpg Northrop Grumman's decision to leave Los Angeles marks the end of an era, say scholars William Deverell, Daniel Lewis and Peter Westwick in a Visiting Bloggers post at LA Observed.

Lot B closing at LAX

You have until Jan. 31 to pick up your car.

Boom!

In case you haven't heard, that explosive boom that rattled windows and more than a few nerves yesterday afternoon was Discovery, the space shuttle, landing at Edwards Air Force Base....

Worries near SM Airport

Talk about a story that's going nowhere fast (the above video is from 2007 and not much has happened since). As the FAA and the city of Santa Monica...

LAX drops to #6 *

Los Angeles International now ranks as the world's sixth busiest airport, just behind Paris' Charles de Gaulle. Of course, on any ranking of airport amenities, transportation, signage or comfort of...

LAX continues to embarrass

Dwell magazine's June issue rates San Francisco's new international terminal the best airport in the U.S. Los Angeles International is pegged as the country's absolute worst: Los Angeles is the...

Wilshire Boulevard's old air fields

demillefield.jpg For some reason, Los Angeles airfields used to open almost next to each other. There were three or four in and adjacent to Burbank, another in Glendale, and another on...
LA Observed on Twitter
venice-lemonade-slush.jpgBlogger Diana Chang photographed every shop that faces the ocean — and set her gallery to music by The Red Hot Chili Peppers and others. Go there


I understand the emotion of LA Kings nation, and get the passion of hockey fans generally. Still, I'm surprised by this turnout to greet the Kings players at LAX Wednesday morning. Watch larger

mosquito-air-patrol.jpgPasadena police and the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District flew over El Monte and Duarte and identified 21 dirty, abandoned or improperly drained swimming pools that could provide breeding environments for Asian tiger mosquitoes. San Gabriel Valley Tribune photographer Walt Mancini rode along. Links

falcon9-rocket-launch1.JPGSpaceX successfully launched its Dragon orbiter Tuesday morning at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Space.com

party aftermath.jpgThe aftermath of a teenage party over the weekend in the Silver Lake hills. The latest in the Night Vision series by Iris Schneider. Native Intelliigence
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