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Nearly 300 Decorated Planes Are Now on Display in Celebration of International Terminal D and Skylink |
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DFW’s World of Wings (WOW) art program features hundreds of model airplanes decorated by artists from around the globe. Schools and community groups joined in the effort to decorate the model airplanes for public display at DFW. The WOW program was designed to raise awareness of International Terminal D, the world's newest airline terminal, and Skylink, the world's largest high-speed airport train. International Terminal D will open in summer 2005; Skylink will open this spring.
The WOW project was launched in April 2004, when the 6-foot by 6-foot cardboard airplanes were distributed to previously selected schools, cultural groups, governmental entities and DFW Airport employees for decoration. The art program theme, international aviation travel, was designed to encourage participants to think creatively about international travel, cultures, global commerce and how aviation, airplanes and DFW Airport keep "The World Connected.”
The model airplanes resemble a 777 aircraft commonly used in international travel and are now on display at Terminals A, B, C and E and the rental car facility. Each plane is accompanied by signage naming the artist or organization that decorated the plane, photographs of the planes during the decoration process, and a photo of the final product. Locally painted planes are on display in public areas so school children and community groups can easily see their work. Click here to view the WOW airplanes and find out where a specific airplane is displayed.
The WOW program was a true international effort. Art planes were flown in from exotic locations such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lima, Peru; Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France; Sao Paolo, Brazil; and Zurich, Switzerland. Two decorated planes returned from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan courtesy of the U.S. Army’s Rest and Recuperation Program. American Airlines tucked cardboard planes in 777 aircraft and flew them around the world to DFW destinations, where local artists or American Airlines employees then decorated the planes.
DFW hopes all of its guests will enjoy the planes on display throughout the Airport’s terminals and rental car facility. DFW also encourages its guests to visit the Capital Development Program portion of this web site for information on the new International Terminal D and Skylink train.
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