Doug Loudenback, a popular local blogger in Oklahoma City, posted some interesting vintage postcards of Oklahoma City on www.okctalk.com. Here is one I dug up of Will Rogers World Airport when it was the Oklahoma City Air Terminal. There is no date on it. I think it is so neat. Also, you can't tell this from the scan, but it is textured.

It's been awhile, but I wanted to make sure to post some pictures of what happened on March 19. More than 600 passengers were diverted to Will Rogers yesterday that day due to a funnel cloud rotation over the tower at DFW. Some interesting planes were also diverted including three from South Korea's flagship airline - Korean Air. See photos below. This was a pretty exciting place. There was a real buzz in the with hundreds of people making cell phone calls, powering up their laptops and buying lots of Java Dave's Coffee!

In August 2006, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials broke ground on a $20 million aviation training center at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. Next week (10:30 a.m., Friday, April 11) the facility will be dedicated. We’ll post some pictures of the celebration of completion of this long-term project, so be sure and check back.

Here is a link to the original news release about the groundbreaking: http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/2006_news_releases/082006/08252006.xml

Here is a photo of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection repelling exercise that took place last fall at Will Rogers. One of our airport operations officer's, Terri, snapped this picture.  

In April 1930, the New York Times quoted Will Rogers saying, "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." In April 2008, Will Rogers World Airport offers passengers the following reasons to slow down, so not to rush by this beauty. Hats off to airport groundskeeper Kathy Claunch for maintaining various landscapes across the airport campus.