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The back of this circa 1958 TWA Jetstream Lockheed 1649 Starliner brochure reads, “Here’s air travel as you dreamed it could be – and it’s yours to enjoy now! TWA’s great new Jetstream fleet offers superlative luxury, superb service on swift non-stop flights across the Atlantic between New York and London, Paris, Lisbon and Rome, coast-to-coast in the U.S., and via the Polar Route between Europe and California. On your very next trip, be sure to fly the finest… fly TWA Jetstream.” Learn more about the Lockheed Constellation in our exhibition, “Queen of the Skies: The Legacy of the Lockheed Constellation”, on display pre-security, in the Aviation Museum and Library in the International Terminal. The Aviation Museum and Library is open from Sunday through Friday, 10am to 4:30pm. See our online exhibition here: http://www.flysfo.com/museum/exhibitions/queen-skies-legacy-lockheed-constellation TWA Jetstream Lockheed 1649 Starliner brochure c. 1958 SFO Museum Collection Gift of David A. Abercrombie, in memory of Stanley A. Abercrombie 2001.039.210
This image was posted on February 24, 2016.
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