REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Take a tour of Anthony Toth's Redondo Beach condominium and you'll learn really fast that he has his head in the clouds. "I have probably 400 or 500 aircraft models," said Toth.

Linda Freire, 65, of Cold Spring Harbor, looks at home strolling through the Pan Am Museum at the Cradle of Aviation in Garden City. In a space on the third floor, Freire shows a visitor models of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Offering an insider’s view of the business of flight. Portrait of the "Clipper Victor", a Pan American World Airways 747 jet ...

Flying on an airline nowadays is more like a chore than a luxury. But it wasn't always like this. Believe it or not, air travel felt like a special occasion for most of the 20th century. Step aside, ...