Short title

Air passengers exit and enter a transit train at Chicago O'Hare airport, Illinois USA. They pull suitcases behind them as they negotiate the airport terminal transport system that takes them across the sprawling complex of terminals and tunnels. A large central yellow traffic arrow saying OUT is most prominent telling arriving people to keep in the middle, allowing those departing to enter the carriage from the sides. There is a slight blur to the picture showing the hurrying nature of modern air travel, vastly different from the pioneering days of flight for only the socially elite. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903..

Filename

aviation_corbis49-10-11-2000.jpg

Copyright

© Richard Baker. No copying, screen grabbing, transmission or publication without permission.

Image Size

5360x5352 / 11.5MB

traveller traveler transportation transport flight travel aviation air traveller air travel air transport terminal hub normal ordinary everyday experience civilised schedule floor tourism tourist tour holiday vacation recreation leisure visitor mass-tourism on the move population looking down destinations departs stress patience passengers line queue delay departure airport misery commercial global airline phrenetic chaotic rushing hurrying time out exit entrance train direction arrow pointing cases baggage luggage towing pulling possession legs Samsonite feet Chicago O'Hare Illinois USA transit arrivals on the go constant movement to and fro coming and going here and there in and out two-way negotiate manage central allowance traffic commercial aviation journey gateway international scheduled flight commerce Richard Baker photographer lifestyle passenger civil suitcase transcontinental

Contained in galleries

Worlds of Travel, Plane Pictures