Added a gallery of over 3 dozen Florida Air Lines timetables tracing the history of the airline from 1966 to 1981.

A new page featuring a massive gallery of Air South timetables tracing the history of the airline from 1968 to 1980.

Added several aircraft photos and a 1969-vintage advertisement to the Air South page. Georgia-based Air South operated from 1968-1980.

Added over a half dozen new photos and timetables to the North American Airlines page as well as larger versions of existing photos.

Also added several additional photos to the Airways International page.

The Sunshine Skies website now features a responsive layout, meaning that all content should look equally good on desktops, tablets and mobile phones and all images should automatically resize to fit your screen. If you have any issues with the way the website is displaying, let me know and I'll tweak it a little more.

Added timetables to the Aerosun, Airways International and Atlantic Gulf pages. All scans courtesy of Arthur Na. Click the images to see larger versions, additional timetables and full schedules.

Stories and photos contributed by readers. Fun and random. Hot off the press!

When I created the page about "HAL" the robot voice on the underground shuttle at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, I mistakenly wrote that "he" had been there from day one.

Kelly McCoy, known to Atlantans as a popular radio personality at WQXI "Quixie" and B98.5, wrote in with this great story and sets the record straight:

"I was the "original voice" of the "new" Atlanta Airport. I think your dates could be wrong for Hal. He came in after it was decided my voice was "too friendly," and people weren't paying close attention. Hal definitely got your attention. Once we were awarded the Olympics, rumor has it that Hal may have been too frightening to the visitors from all over the world. My friend, Bill Murray (not the actor) was the kinder voice after that, if memory serves correctly."

I asked him about the details of the recording session.

"I was working at WQXI "Quixie" at the time.  It was sometime in 1980. I got a call from a friend who was manager of a rock and roll band I'd done commercials for in the late 70s.  He had a studio in Hapeville. Westinghouse, who was providing the sounds for the train, airport, etc., called and said a problem had developed with the train voice. The airport hadn't officially opened yet, and President Jimmy Carter was about to get a tour. They asked John, the studio manager, if he knew of a voice person who could do a quick turnaround. He called me. After I got off the air, I went to the studio and recorded all of the needed elements. It was creepy to record the emergency elements in case there were problems. Anyway, that's how I was the voice of the airport for quite a while.  It was cool hearing myself on a train when my wife and I would fly somewhere. She'd embarrass me by pointing to me and saying "that's him" to fellow train travelers. All they did was look at us with a weird expression."

Becky Wilson was a flight attendant for Red Carpet Airlines and wrote:
I was a flight attendant for Red Carpet Airlines in the early 1970s. We took charter groups to dive trips for the most part. My "uniform" was an outfit I already owned and the passenger meals were bologna and cheese sandwiches made by me during the flight. On one trip to Grand Cayman we were given a shipment of 2 thousand pounds of frozen lobsters to bring to Pinellas Seafood. We took out the seats and flew those lobsters home. It was freezing inside the DC3. I got a garbage bag full of frozen lobsters for my efforts. What fun!

In response to last week's update of the PBA DC-3s: Where are they now? page, Frank Dalpe posted these photos of former PBA DC-3 N130PB (msn 2213), taken on August 8, 2015. The aircraft is now at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas and is painted in the classic colors of Continental Airlines. The current registration is N25673. Thanks Frank!

More PBA DC-3 news. Former N35PB, now registered N61981 (msn 2216), was flown from Oshkosh to Cape Cod Airfield in Marston Mills, MA on August 5, 2015. Pete Johnson kindly gave me permission to post these photos.

The interior looks great!

More info about the current whereabouts of all 12 PBA DC-3s can be found HERE.

Added an undated, circa 1983 timetable to the Pro Air page. Pro Air was one of the last U.S. airlines to fly DC-3s and Martin 404s in regular passenger service and flew them until 1988.

What do you consider the most beautiful airliner of all time? The Constellation? Concorde? 747? Super Guppy? Please take a minute to list your faves by clicking the comment icon at the top right of this post.

You can read our top 10 choices HERE !

Updated info on 6 former PBA DC-3s. Unfortunate news on N38PB and N40PB. Check out the crazy paint job on N43PB!