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SFO Museum has taken a break from social media to reflect on the police killing of unarmed people of color across the U.S. We stand in solidarity with the Black community and pledge to do better.
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SFO Museum has taken a break from social media to reflect on the police killing of unarmed people of color across the U.S. We stand in solidarity with the Black community and pledge to do better.
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In 1917, Katherine Stinson asked Glenn Curtiss to build a new exhibition aircraft for her.
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Harold McMillan Bixby, a midwestern businessman with a strong interest in the emerging technology of aviation, worked for Pan American Airways in the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Following the historic first flight from North America to Australia by Charles Kingsford Smith and crew in 1928, the transpacific “Southern Cross” route— named after the aircraft they flew, the Fokker F.VIIb/3m Southern Cross—received worldwide fame.
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Glenn H. Curtiss (1878–1930) started the Curtiss Company in 1902 to manufacture engines and motorcycles.
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