Eastern A300s: A Marriage Made In Heaven
By the 1970s it had been years since the US majors had bought any foreign aircraft and the new Airbus […]
April 2019
Big Fokkers: An F100 Wishlist
Production of the F100 in 1:400 scale has been rather lopsided with only a small variety of models made focusing
Killed by Debt: Air Florida 1982-1984
The loss of Ed Acker to Air Florida’s greatest rival Pan Am in September 1981 was undoubtedly a serious blow
Air Florida Across the Atlantic: Palm DC-10s
Air Florida was, thanks to its President Ed Acker, one of the darlings of the first years of deregulation and
Acker’s Gamble: Air Florida 1979-1982
With deregulation of the airlines in the USA the expectation was that an intrastate airline like Air Florida would be