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Airlines have been known to go all out with the designs of their liveries, whether produced in collaboration with famous designers, celebrating partner brands, or showcasing destinations.
This image was posted on January 23, 2023.
#52objects
Designed by Louis Blériot and Raymond Saulnier, the Blériot XI monoplane took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1909.
This image was posted on January 23, 2023.
On January 21, 1905, legendary fashion designer Christian Dior was born in Granville, France.
This image was posted on January 20, 2023.
#avgeek #dior #uniform #airfrance #fashion
“I remember I was four years old when I first told my mother – well, no, it was actually my grandmother – that I was a girl.” “The activism keeps me young.
This image was posted on January 20, 2023.
#jesstdugan #vanessafabbre #tosurviveonthisshore #trans #transgender #gendernonconforming
The Concorde’s Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 afterburning turbojet engines— a turbine-driven compressor that thrusts heated, compressed air through a propelling nozzle—were atypical.
This image was posted on January 19, 2023.
#sstfirstgeneration #avgeek #concorde
The Gorham Manufacturing Company, along with Tiffany & Company, was a leading manufacturer of precious metals at the height of Japonisme in the late 19th century.
This image was posted on January 18, 2023.
#japonisme #japan #design #metalwork
San Franciscan Lincoln J. Beachey (1887–1915), considered to be “The World’s Greatest Aviator,” can be seen in this photo performing in in his biplane over the Panama-Pacific International Exposition grounds on Christmas day in 1913.
This image was posted on January 17, 2023.
Pan American Airways inaugurated its first scheduled passenger flight on January 16, 1928, with an eight-passenger Fokker F.VIIa/3m.
This image was posted on January 17, 2023.
Eileen Reynolds Curtis (1915–77) was a San Francisco Bay Area studio potter who was known for hand-thrown ceramics with unique and distinctive glazes.
This image was posted on January 13, 2023.
#californiamodernistwomen #california #womenartists #modernism #eileenreynolds
The inaugural flight of the Concorde for the Braniff International Airways and British Airways joint SST service from Dallas-Fort Worth via Washington, DC, to London departed #onthisday in 1979.
This image was posted on January 13, 2023.
#braniff #concorde #avgeek #aviationhistory #ba
Qantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services) is one of the oldest continually operating airlines in the world; it celebrated its centennial in 2020.
This image was posted on January 12, 2023.
#flyingsoutherncross #australia #avgeek #aviationhistory
Kacper Kowalski is a photographer and aviator who has been observing and photographing landscapes from above for over twenty-five years.
This image was posted on January 11, 2023.
#photography #aerialphotography #kacperkowalski #poland #landscape #rezoartagency #1605collective #bastiaanwoudt