Stories by JP Santiago

JP Santiago

CORRESPONDENT - DALLAS, TX. JP has been in private practice as an MD since 2000 in the suburbs of Dallas/Fort Worth. He has been a lifelong AvGeek that lives and works in a community that sits under the final approach pathway to DFW on south flow days. Aviation art, scale model building, plane spotting and photography as well as a crack-like addiction to aviation history books, all things aviation is the seventh member of our household after his wife and four children!

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Delta Air Lines and the Historic Boeing 747-100

By JP Santiago

23 Oct 2015

Delta Boeing 747-100 - Photo Bob Garrard

On 9 September 2015, the very first Boeing 747-400 built, N661US, touched down at Atlanta from Honolulu as Delta Flight 836 for the last time in revenue passenger service. Ship 6301 was the Boeing 747-400 prototype, which was delivered to launch customer Northwest Airlines on 8 December 1989 and came over to Delta with the […]

Sharing a Passion for Creating Impressive Aviation Art

By JP Santiago

29 Jul 2015

One of my early PSP 7.0 projects, a ”what-if" subject, a Western Airlines Boeing 767-200 in the ”Bud Lite" livery. Before their merger with Delta Airlines in 1987, Western had a small number of 767-200s on order.

I suppose I was destined to be doing aircraft profile art from a young age. Many of my notebooks and textbooks had aircraft drawings scribbled on the pages and margins, often to pass the time in class. As long as I can remember, I was always drawing airplanes – on the walls of my room, in […]