As some of you know, and I’m sure, some of you don’t know, I’ve always been interested in airplanes. Commercial aviation, mostly.

Growing up, I was either going to be a commercial airline pilot, or a computer programmer.

Due to a variety of reasons, I picked computer programmer. Am I sorry I picked it? Not really. An airline pilot of today is nowhere near as glamorous as it once was. I actually probably would be out of a job after 9/11, had I gone down that path.

But I still keep up on aviation, reading such sites as Airliners.net, FlyerTalk, among others.

I think a lot of that is the fact that my father worked for Trans World Airlines for over 30 years. It was a part of our family.. Both in the good times and the bad. And I’m speaking about both my family and the airlines good times.

Unfortunately, like other airlines, TWA didn’t make it. It’s still one of the oldest airlines that we had in the US. And of course, it’s long history with such people as Howard Hughes and Carl Icahn.

Over the years, I’ve aquired quite a few bits of history of TWA. I’ve decided to setup a website, TWAHistory.com, where I can show some of the stuff I’ve amassed. Hopefully other people will chime in too.

So if you get a chance, take a look. Come back every now and then. We’ll always have new stuff.

twahistory.com