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Jet streams are fast flowing westerly (moving west to east) air currents found around the world.
This image was posted on August 21, 2017.
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It's National Aviation Day!
This image was posted on August 19, 2017.
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#Onthisday in 1958, Pan American World Airlines received the first of eight Boeing 707-120s.
This image was posted on August 15, 2017.
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#OnThisDay in 1971, the first Douglas DC-10 service started at San Francisco International Airport.
This image was posted on August 14, 2017.
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In the decade between the late-1930s and late-1940s, United Air Lines introduced a series of modern airliners that elevated air travel to new levels of speed and comfort.
This image was posted on August 11, 2017.
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Dubbed “The Uniform for the Superjet Era,” and created for the new wide-body jet service, this uniform marked a new direction in Pan American’s approach to fashion.
This image was posted on August 09, 2017.
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In 1948, TWA (Trans World Airlines) promoted itself as the only US airline with Coast-to-Coast service in the U.S. and direct flights to Rome.
This image was posted on August 08, 2017.
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In 1961, the Nut Tree Restaurant commissioned its first Chavez model after Edwin Power, a pilot and one of the restaurant's owners, had seen Chavez's work in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum.
This image was posted on July 29, 2017.
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Mike Kelley travels to airports throughout the globe, looking for scenes that accurately describe the landscape while providing a vantage point from which the airport’s traffic can be seen in a linear trajectory.
This image was posted on July 23, 2017.
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On August 27, 1954, the new Central Terminal at SFO was dedicated.
This image was posted on May 25, 2017.
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At any given moment, there are at least seven thousand commercial airplanes in the sky.
This image was posted on May 16, 2017.
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One of the greatest advances in commercial aviation was the succesful introduction of jet airliners during the late 1950s.
This image was posted on December 20, 2016.
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