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RT @AirlineGeeks: Another Boeing 777-300ER has been painted in the special livery. https://t.co/218PZxIx5x This tweet was posted on August 31, 2024.
📸: 1. postcard: Qantas Airways, Boeing 707; c. 1965 Gift of Catherine J. Allen Paulsen 1997.04.03 2. Qantas Empire Airways Japan travel poster c. 1956 Harry Rogers paper, ink Collection of SFO Museum Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.109.070 R2024.0601.014 This tweet was posted on September 03, 2024.
Once acquired, PAA obtained all of AOA routes and assets including eight Boeing 377 Stratocruisers, seven Constellations, three DC-4s, and one DC-3. #52Posters This tweet was posted on September 25, 2024.
First flown in 1957, the Boeing 707 was the first successful jet airliner to provide regular, sustained commercial passenger service. With its speed, reliability, large capacity, and reduced operating costs, the 707 revolutionized the airline industry. #CutAboveModels This tweet was posted on October 04, 2024.
Klein was influenced by an art style called Precisionism, which used detailed, sharply defined geometrical lines and forms. In his vibrant San Francisco poster, he features a Boeing 707 flying over the Golden Gate Bridge with a ship entering the Golden Gate. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on October 02, 2024.
📸: 1. Continental Airlines Boeing 707 brochure [detail] early 1960s paper, ink Collection of SFO Museum Gift of M.D. Klaas 2018.112.1192 R2024.0401.022 This tweet was posted on October 04, 2024.
📸: 2. Continental Airlines Boeing 707 flight information packet folder cover (detail) c. 1960 paper, ink Collection of SFO Museum Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2014.095.427 a R2024.0401.021 This tweet was posted on October 04, 2024.
Introduced in 1964, the Boeing 727 was a medium-range jetliner designed to serve regional airports with shorter runways. Beginning in the early 1970s, PSA offered Boeing 727 interiors in peach, pink, & magenta, similar to the colors featured on their liveries at the time. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 05, 2024.
This three-seat coach section was manufactured by Boeing for installation in the 727 airliner in the 1960s. It was upholstered in the 1970s by PSA in an intricate floral pattern fabric inspired by the countercultural, flower-power designs of the era. #AvGeek #Braniff This tweet was posted on June 05, 2024.
📸: Braniff International Boeing 727 interior; early 1970s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.2506 https://t.co/sDk8Jyha3H coach seat section: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA), Boeing 727 cabin interior; 1970s Gift of Chris and Leacy Laborde 2021.057.010 https://t.co/EHkUuAn5Zr This tweet was posted on June 05, 2024.
The Boeing 747SP (Special Performance) took off on its maiden flight #onthisday on 1975. The 747SP was introduced by Pan American in 1976. Pan American specifically requested the 747SP as it offered longer range, increased speed, and was capable of using shorter runways. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 04, 2024.
📸: photograph: Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747SP; c. 1976 Gift of the Estate of Fred Nott 2004.016.120.010 This tweet was posted on July 04, 2024.
RT @airandspace: On this day in 1957, a production version of the Boeing 707 flew for the first time. Pictured here are Boeing 707-121s o… This tweet was posted on December 20, 2023.
📸 1/2: postcard: TWA (Trans World Airlines), Boeing 707, Golden Gate Bridge; 1960s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.1534 postcard: Western Airlines, Lockheed L-188 Electra, San Francisco; 1950s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.1733 This tweet was posted on January 05, 2024.
This Pan American Airways poster from circa 1939 by the artist Frank McIntosh advertises travel from San Francisco to Hawaii on a Boeing 314. The Honolulu Clipper entered service in early 1939 and completed the 2,400-mile trip from SF to Honolulu in 16 to 20 hours. #52posters This tweet was posted on February 26, 2024.
Not only did Beverly Carlson take a flight on Leap Day during a Leap Year, she also flew across the equator on a Qantas Empire Airways Boeing 707. An old maritime shipboard tradition was to celebrate crewmembers' and passengers' first passages over the equator. #LeapDay This tweet was posted on February 29, 2024.
The Boeing 307 “Stratoliner” was the first commercial airliner to have a pressurized cabin. This 1940s postcard shows a weather chart advertising the “Stratoliner” which was able to fly at an altitude of over 30,000 feet, above bad weather and turbulence. #52Objects #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 10, 2023.
📸: postcard: Pan American Airways, weather chart, Boeing 307 Stratoliner; 1940s Gift of Jon E. Krupnick 2022.124.277 https://t.co/NhSguts9xK This tweet was posted on July 10, 2023.
The Boeing 40 embarked on its maiden flight in July 1925. The first Boeing aircraft built to carry passengers, it was primarily used as an air mail plane. Boeing Air Transport, which would later become United Air Lines, introduced the Boeing 40 on July 1, 1927. #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 20, 2023.
negative: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, Boeing 40A; 1927 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 2011.032.0035  https://t.co/U5yA9vYJ9W This tweet was posted on July 20, 2023.
📸: photograph: Pan American Airways, Boeing 314; 01/1939 Gift of Reid W. Dennis 2010.244.001 This tweet was posted on August 22, 2023.
JAL introduced the Boeing 747 widebody in 1970. During this decade, JAL offered its passengers premium meal services on ceramic dishware created by Noritake of Japan featuring either a single crane or a flock of cranes in blue. #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek This tweet was posted on April 19, 2023.
With one refueling stop in Dakar, the inaugural Air France Concorde flight required just seven hours. A nonstop flight on a subsonic Boeing 747 during this time required more than eleven hours. #SSTTimeMachine #AvGeek This tweet was posted on April 28, 2023.
In the 1990s, Qantas operated a large fleet of Boeing 747-400 widebody airliners. With a range of more than 7,000 miles, the aircraft was ideal for flying just over 400 business travelers and tourists swiftly and in comfort between Oceania and North America. #FlyingSouthernCross This tweet was posted on November 02, 2022.
One of these Boeing 747-400 was renamed and painted in a special livery in 1994 called Wunala (kangaroo) Dreaming to celebrate the art and culture of the indigenous Yanyuwa people from Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. #FlyingSouthernCross This tweet was posted on November 02, 2022.
📸 1/2 : 1. postcard: Qantas Airways, Boeing 747-400; Gift of Thomas Taffel 2021.046.048 2. slide: Qantas Airways, Boeing 747-400, Sydney Airport (SYD); c. 1994 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2015.108.169 This tweet was posted on November 02, 2022.
#Onthisday in 2017, United Airlines’ last scheduled Boeing 747 flight departed from SFO. Recreating the journey of the first United 747 flight from SFO to Honolulu in 1970, the airline threw a farewell party. #avgeek #UA747Farewell This tweet was posted on November 07, 2022.
Pan American World Airways and Qantas Airways favored the Boeing 707 jetliner for long-range international routes. These airliners did not need to stop as frequently and layovers in New Caledonia and Canton Island were no longer required. #AirmailDownUnder #AvGeek This tweet was posted on November 09, 2022.
📸 1/3: Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-320 disembarking in Honolulu; c. 1960 SFO Museum, Gift of the Pan Am Association 2000.058.0336 This tweet was posted on November 09, 2022.
📸 2/3: Qantas Empire Airways, First Boeing 707 Flight, Honolulu–Sydney airmail flight cover; August 1, 1959 SFO Museum, Gift of Mrs. Siusiadh Rasmussen 2003.013.001 This tweet was posted on November 09, 2022.
Ever wonder what airplane tickets looked like in the 1920s? Browse through nearly one hundred tickets and ticket jackets spanning from the late 1920s to the 2010s in our online database: https://t.co/HTWhjvSgNU #AvGeek #Boeing #collections #tickets This tweet was posted on December 09, 2022.
Qantas introduced the new widebody Boeing 767 and upgraded to the 747-300 and 747SP widebody jetliners in the 1980s. By 1987, the airline maintained 21 747s and 6 767s in its fleet and placed a large order for the next generation 747-400, introduced in 1989. #FlyingSouthernCross This tweet was posted on December 06, 2022.
📸 2/3: menu: Pan American World Airways, Historic First Flights series, Boeing 747; 1983 Gift of William E. Talbott 2012.151.018 https://t.co/UhVPBNZx4k This tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.
📸 3/3: menu: Pan American World Airways, Historic First Flights series, Boeing 314; 1986 Gift of the Pan Am Association 2000.058.1124 a b https://t.co/gu1kIqRjb4 This tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.
One of the largest and most influential projects ever undertaken by the Boeing corporation, the Boeing Model 707 was the second successful pure-turbojet airliner to be introduced. Have you ever flown on a Boeing 707? #Boeing707 #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 20, 2022.
The first flight of the Boeing 707 took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1957. The first Boeing 707 took flight on a rainy day from Renton Municipal Airport in Washington. #Boeing707 #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 20, 2022.