Inside the landmark NY TWA Terminal

[Eclipse]

More pieces of the golden age of aviation.  Obsolete before it was complete, this terminal, vacant since 2001, was recently
renovated and partially restored, and is designated as a national landmark.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214917/A-look-inside-TWAs-unused-flight-terminal-JFK-airport.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_Center
http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/10/16/22910/552/travel/Inside+the+Historic+TWA+Flight+Center+at+New+York's+JFK+Airport
http://www.rankel.net/stephenlauren/planes/TWA%20Terminal/Old_Terminal_5/index.htm

[MacGruff]

I flew in and out of that terminal a couple of times about 15 years ago. It was kind of a strange experience with all the rounded walks that made it very difficult to figure out where to go. It reminds me a bit of the confusion in Charles De Gaulle where you have to take those escalators through the see-through tunnels in the middle of the building...

It looks gorgeous but is somewhat impractical.

[vento]

Nice find. Very cool. I miss TWA and Pan Am, and Braniff International, and...

[SarDragon]

... and Smiley Birds. 

[PHall]

... and SmileyGrinning Birds. 

FTFY.    PSA's aircraft were known as "Grinning Birds".  The L-1011 was the "Mother Grinning Bird". (All 500 seats of it!)

[46davis]

Nice find. Very cool. I miss TWA and Pan Am, and Braniff International, and...

...and Eastern, and Southern, and Midway, and North Central,  and Ozark, and Northeast, and Wien...

[Al Sayre]

Eastern still owes me money!

[Critical AOA]

... and SmileyGrinning Birds. 

FTFY.    PSA's aircraft were known as "Grinning Birds".  The L-1011 was the "Mother Grinning Bird". (All 500 seats of it!)

PSA's L-1011 held 500?  I don't recall ever seeing a TriStar with that many seats.  That would qualify as a sardine can.

[ProdigalJim]

^^^^^

I was just at Airbus last week at their delivery center in Toulouse, and their top programs guy was telling us about a new higher-gross weight A380 designed to sit 562 in a "comfortable" 11-abreast arrangement. 18-inch wide seats. Yeah, buddy, I can't WAIT to fly 14 hours to Singapore in Row 78...

[MacGruff]

I don't think I would ever set foot on an A380. just the loading and unloading process would take two or three hours!!!

Well, maybe in Business Class or First Class...

Did you hear where American is trying to squeeze more seats on to their planes now? Also, Southwest is making thinner (thinner? really?!) backrests on their seats to get another row in a 737???

Sheesh!

[PHall]

I don't think I would ever set foot on an A380. just the loading and unloading process would take two or three hours!!!

Well, maybe in Business Class or First Class...

Did you hear where American is trying to squeeze more seats on to their planes now? Also, Southwest is making thinner (thinner? really?!) backrests on their seats to get another row in a 737???

Sheesh!

Actually, the A380 loading goes fairly quickly, they use two jetways.

[Eclipse]

New Capital One commercial filmed inside the terminal:

Capital One Purchase Erasure TV Commercial, 'Escape' Feat Alec Baldwin

[jeders]

New Capital One commercial filmed inside the terminal:

Capital One Purchase Erasure TV Commercial, 'Escape' Feat Alec Baldwin

I thought that set looked familiar.