Friday plane porn

Yes I am aware it's Sunday, however Friday was a drinking day. I had Tickets to see Pearl Jam and Tom Petty at Summerfest, so I spent Friday afternoon looking for the bottom of a bottle. Saturday wasn't much better as I needed time to recover from the aforementioned bottle search and screaming "American Girl" at the top of my lungs.

Anyway on to the reason why you're here. US Airways is really an amalgam of several carriers swallowed up by a larger parent company and smushed together into one airline. Recently US is paying homage to its heritage by painting several of its planes in the classic colors of its predecessors. One such example is this A-319 painted in the old Piedmont livery.


I remember Piedmont very well (it only died out in the late 80's) Based in North Carolina they had a route network that stretched from California to Europe. Then they got bought out by USAir and ceased to exist. Since most of my family is based in the Tar Heel state, I flew them often. I remember that they used to serve a full meal on a 55 minute flight, and had something that they gave to kids called "Piedmont Punch" (really Hi-C in a different can) To this day in one of the closets in my grandmothers house is a collection of Piedmont wings, gliders and tons of other shawag that they would give to snot nosed brats to shut them up. Not that I know any.