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#Onthisday in 1947, Howard Hughes, decided to take the huge Hughes H-4 Hercules (nicknamed the Spruce Goose) on a test flight to prove it could fly.
This image was posted on November 02, 2017.
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In 1945, Ada Brown became the first President of the earliest recognized flight attendant union, the Air Line Stewardess Association (ALSA).
This image was posted on November 01, 2017.
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“We felt the lure of Latin America the instant we boarded the Clipper."
This image was posted on October 31, 2017.
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#OnThisDay in 1927, the first scheduled Pan American Airways mail service departed from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba.
This image was posted on October 28, 2017.
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In the mid-1960s, American commercial aviation was primed for transformation.
This image was posted on October 27, 2017.
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#OnThisDay in 1958, the first scheduled Pan American World Airways jet service took off from Idlewild, New York.
This image was posted on October 26, 2017.
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Jim Lund, a Bay Area native, has a passionate interest in aviation dating back to his childhood when he first constructed aircraft models.
This image was posted on October 25, 2017.
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#Onthisday in 2003, the last scheduled eastbound Concorde flight took off from New York bound for London.
This image was posted on October 24, 2017.
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#OnThisDay in 1937, the second passenger terminal building at SFO was dedicated.
This image was posted on October 24, 2017.
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Will you be joining us this Saturday for our event in conjunction with the current exhibition, Aviation Evolutions: The Jim Lund 1:72 Scale Model Airplane Collection?
This image was posted on October 23, 2017.
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Our online database contains a selection of ticket jackets from our collection, such as this gem from PSA.
This image was posted on October 22, 2017.
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Our newest exhibition focuses on one of the most important periods in aviation history: the story of Braniff International's game changing advertisements in the 1960s and 70s is told in "When You Got it- Flaunt It."
This image was posted on October 20, 2017.
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