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See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/ayiz8gruzk #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 07, 2024.
See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/ayiz8gruzk #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 21, 2024.
See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/ayiz8gruzk #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on September 03, 2024.
See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/kyjOuhRNMD #CutAboveModels #AvGeek This tweet was posted on September 04, 2024.
See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/ayiz8gruzk #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on September 18, 2024.
See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/ayiz8gruzk #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 02, 2024.
📸: 3. TWA (Trans World Airlines) Italy travel poster c. 1957 David Klein paper, ink Collection of SFO Museum Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2001.135.066 R2024.0601.017 https://t.co/Kjdlw9RWil #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
By contrast, in David Klein's Spain and Italy posters, he used a modern three-dimensional style. His Spain poster highlights one of the country’s popular attractions, the bullfights, with intricately dressed matadors. #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
In his poster for Italy, David Klein features Venice’s most recognizable landmark, the Piazza San Marco, or St. Mark’s Square, with St. Mark’s Basilica and the Campanile bell tower. #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/ayiz8gruzk #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
📸: 1. TWA (Trans World Airlines) Paris travel poster c. 1957 David Klein paper, ink Collect ion of SFO Museum 1995.03.01 R2024.0601.020 https://t.co/fKKqsS07cK #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
📸: 2. TWA (Trans World Airlines) Spain travel poster c. 1957 David Klein paper, ink Collection of SFO Museum Gift of Captain Jon Simmonds 2016.080.007 R2024.0601.018 https://t.co/Yostrb7hHr #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
See “A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection” on display, pre-security, in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/kyjOuhRNMD #CutAboveModels #AvGeek This tweet was posted on April 17, 2024.
The poster commemorates the closing of the original buildings of Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco on May 14, 1966. poster: San Mateo County Historical Association, Mills Field; 1966 Gift of John R. Barker 2002.005.044 a https://t.co/qZFZTjYHpS #52Posters #AvGeek This tweet was posted on May 14, 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.
See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/ayiz8gruzk #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 12, 2024.
Virgin America's premium, first-class services included these twenty-one-inch-wide, ultra-plush leather seats arranged in sets of two. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 26, 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.
National Airlinesbegan European service with their daily nonstop round-trip Miami to London route in 1970. Flown on the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, service from Miami to Amsterdam began in 1978. Have you ever been to Amsterdam? #52Posters #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 18, 2024.
See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/ayiz8gruzk #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 15, 2024.
📸: poster: Singapore Airlines, Airbus A300; c. 1981 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2006.010.273 https://t.co/Ajep6cNCGK #52Posters #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 28, 2024.
Introduced in 1936, the same year as the Douglas DC-3, this United Air Lines sage green wool stewardess uniform was worn with a yellow linen blouse and included a pillbox hat complemented with a green and yellow flat bow. #AirlinerChairs #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 15, 2023.
See “Remain Seated: Airliner Passenger Chairs,” on display, pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library, located on the departures level of the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/sm6ZR2E2Sr #AirlinerChairs #AircraftInteriors #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 15, 2023.
Harold McMillan Bixby, a midwestern businessman with a strong interest in the emerging technology of aviation, worked for Pan American Airways in the 1930s to the 1950s. #BixbyCollection #PanAm #PAA #AvGeek #HaroldBixby This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.
The Harold Bixby Collection, acquired by SFO Museum in 2019, contains over five hundred photographic prints and negatives collected by Harold Bixby throughout his career at #PanAm. #BixbyCollection #PAA #AvGeek #HaroldBixby This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.
Our photography essay “Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection, The Photographs” featuring 21 highlights from Harold Bixby’s life with Pan American, is on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. https://t.co/MvwMYD0SyN #BixbyCollection #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.
#Onthisday in 1933, construction on the Golden Gate Bridge started. An iconic San Francisco landmark and a major tourist attraction, the Golden Gate Bridge attracts over 15 million visitors every year. #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 05, 2024.
The bridge has been featured on numerous promotional prints for various airlines. These postcards from the 1950s and 1960s showcase how popular the bridge was in airline marketing. #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 05, 2024.
Bixby joined Pan American in 1933 and worked for the airline for the rest of his career, retiring in 1955. #BixbyCollection #PanAm #HaroldBixby #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 08, 2024.
The first Pan American Airways scheduled passenger flight took off on this day in 1928 from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. The eight-passenger, three-engine, Fokker F-VIIa/3m made the 90-mile trip in just under 90 minutes. The one-way fare was $50 or about $887 today #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 16, 2024.
model airplane: Pan American Airways, Fokker F.VllA-3m General Machado; 1980 Gift of Jim Lund 2014.173.001 https://t.co/fffQKoLkD6 #PAA #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 16, 2024.
See “Remain Seated: Airliner Passenger Chairs,” on display, pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library, located on the departures level of the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/sm6ZR2E2Sr #AirlinerChairs #AircraftInteriors #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 31, 2024.
See "VX Forever: The Legacy of Virgin America" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located, pre-security, in the International Terminal and is open daily from 10am to 4:30pm. https://t.co/JOmil4pAwj #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 12, 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.
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.