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Airline calendars often presented stunning imagery of aircraft in service. The commemoration of aviation progress is portrayed in British Overseas Airways Corporation’s 1958 calendar with its striking portraits of six different types of modern postwar airliners. See "The #YearsFlyBy: Airline Calendars from the Collection" is on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum and Library. http://bit.ly/YearsFlyBy Image: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) wall calendar, 1958. Gift of Captain Jon Simmonds. 2014.156.487
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