Category: Photos

Aircraft that never wore these colours. Custom liveries imagined for Airport Aviation Stories — hockey clubs long folded, football sides from three countries, the unions that worked the ramp, and a few films that had no business being on a 747.

72 liveries, 72 named. Click any one to see it full size.

The ramp crews of Toronto Pearson, reimagined as cover stars. Made with AI for Airport Aviation Stories — every one of them invented, and none of these magazines ever ran them.

46 covers, 43 named. Click any one to see it full size.

Caricatures of the crews at Toronto Pearson — bag handlers, leads, cabin and cargo, drawn with AI for Airport Aviation Stories. Affectionate, and not remotely to scale.

62 of them, 60 named so far. Click any one to see it full size — and if you know a face we have not named, get in touch.

Every picture here was made with AI. None of it happened. They are invented scenes in the style of old colour slides — the airport as it might have looked, with famous faces who were never actually there, alongside the people who really did work the ramp.

69 images — click any one to see it full size.

Front pages that never happened. Supermarket tabloids reimagined with Toronto Pearson as the scene of the crime — Elvis in Arrivals, and worse. Made with AI for Airport Aviation Stories; every one of them is invented.

46 covers. Click any one to read it full size.

These portraits were made with AI. They are imagined pictures of people from the ramp — not photographs, and not a record of how anyone actually looked. The real photographs are in the other albums, and the stories themselves are all true.

If you are in here and would rather not be, tell me and it comes down the same day. 137 portraits — click any one to see it full size.

Banners and posters made for Airport Aviation Stories — holidays, anniversaries, tributes and the odd bit of nonsense, all built around the ramp at Toronto Pearson. 135 of them. Click any one to see it full size.

Aviation pulp magazines and comics from the golden age of the flying story — Air Trails, Aviation Stories, Bill Barnes Air Trails, Captain Midnight, Dare-Devil Aces, Flying Aces, Sky Fighters, The Lone Eagle and War Birds — spanning 1927 to 1955. 45 covers. Click any one to see it full size.

These are public-domain scans held by the Internet Archive, where the complete issues can be read free of charge. Titles and dates link back to the original items.

Aviation MAD parody covers — Alfred E. Neuman posted to the ramp at Toronto Pearson, with the crews of Airport Aviation Stories in the cast. 217 covers in all. Click any cover to view it full size.