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Cheers to a happy Valentine’s Day!
This image was posted on February 14, 2023.
#unitedairlines #avgeek
Before people carried around cell phones in their pockets that automatically updated to the current time zone, airlines gave out convenient time converters to passengers on international flights.
This image was posted on February 13, 2023.
#52objects #timezones #twa #avgeek
In 1963, American President John F. Kennedy announced the launch of a government-funded SST program to compete with the joint British and French Concorde project.
This image was posted on February 09, 2023.
#sstfirstgeneration #avgeek #concorde
What did SFO look like #onthisday in 1928?
This image was posted on February 01, 2023.
#avgeek #sfohistory #sfo
Hawaiian Airlines dates back to before Hawai’i’s statehood; Incorporated as Inter-Island Airways #onthisday in 1929, service started later that year in November.
This image was posted on January 30, 2023.
#avgeek #hawaiian #hawaiianairlines
#OnThisDay in 1939, Pan American received the delivery of their first Boeing 314.
This image was posted on January 26, 2023.
#panam #boeing314 #avgeek
#Onthisday in 1929, Panagra (Pan American-Grace Airways Inc.)
This image was posted on January 25, 2023.
#panagra #panam #avgeek
In 1917, Katherine Stinson asked Glenn Curtiss to build a new exhibition aircraft for her.
This image was posted on January 24, 2023.
#enduranceengines #avgeek #aviationhistory #katherinestinson
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
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 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