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“Going the Distance: Endurance Aircraft Engines and Propellers of the 1910s and 20s” is on display, pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library and online at: https://t.co/DGnv8hSoAF #EnduranceEngines #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on August 09, 2022.
In the early 1930s, Pan American Airways began planning for service across the oceans. San Francisco, which is 160 miles closer to Hawai’i than Los Angeles, was the chosen terminus for the Pacific route that required multiple island stops. #DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
It was reported that while at the school, Lillian Atwater caught a seagull in a net while her husband flew a hydroplane. She never earned a pilot’s license, and it remains unknown if she continued to fly after attending the school. #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 10, 2022.
Lillian Janeway Atwater (1890–1937) was the first woman to fly a hydroplane in the United States. In 1911, she began hydroplane pilot training with her husband William Atwater at the Curtiss School of Aviation in North Island, San Diego. #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 10, 2022.
Prior to 1935, the 2,400 miles from San Francisco to Honolulu represented the world’s greatest water gap along any viable aerial trade route. The next stop, Midway Island, lay 1,300 miles northwest of Hawai’i. #DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
“First Flights: Early Women Aviators and their Aircraft” is on display post-security in Terminal 3 and online at: https://t.co/cFAFpvsWKR #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek #AviationHistory #aviator #pilot #womeninaviation This tweet was posted on August 10, 2022.
On Nov. 22, 1935, a #PanAm Martin M-130 named China Clipper, lifted off and strained into the sky, threading its way under and over two partially built bridges as thousands cheered from shore for the first scheduled flight across the Pacific Ocean. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
Pan Am’s Pacific route was extended to Macao and Hong Kong in 1937, making the total flying distance from San Francisco 8,746 miles. #DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
Tiny Wake Island was the vital link across the Pacific, as it broke the 2,690 miles from Midway to Guam into manageable segments. When first established in 1935, the route terminated in Manila, a whopping 8,210-mile one-way journey. #DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
In 1912, Law became the fifth woman in the U.S. to earn a pilot's license. During her flying career she set numerous records, including one for women’s altitude, and another for distance by either a male or female aviator in a flight from Chicago to New York in 1916. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 16, 2022.
Ruth Law (1887-1970) was inspired to fly by her brother Rodman Law, a parachutist and stuntman. Orville Wright refused to train her because he believed women were not mechanically minded, so she instead persuaded Harry Atwood & Arch Freeman of Saugus, MA, to instruct her. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 16, 2022.
“First Flights: Early Women Aviators and their Aircraft” is on display post-security in Terminal 3 and online at: https://t.co/cFAFpvsWKR #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 16, 2022.
See “The 1954 San Francisco International Airport Terminal” on display in the SkyTerrace in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/1CYQBq5tPi The SkyTerrace located pre-security in Terminal 2 and is open Friday to Monday from 10 am to 6 pm. #SFO1954 #SFOHistory #AvGeek #airport This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
These boots were made for walking, but that’s not what they’ll do (anymore). Browse our online database to see some of the shoes in our collection: https://t.co/TAOP6INNmo #AvGeek #shoes #boots #collections #MuseumLife This tweet was posted on August 22, 2022.
Along with skyrocketing oil prices, the once profitable routes National operated became unprofitable under Pan Am, which flew its last flight on December 4, 1991. #PanAm #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.
Although Pan American World Airways experienced unprecedented success in the 1960s and 70s, by the end of the 1980s the company was struggling. #PanAm #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.
As Pan American was not licensed to operate domestic routes within in the United States, the company purchased National Airlines in 1980. This did not prove be a good financial takeover as the company would have liked. #PanAm #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.
Captain Zoya Agarwal (@CaptainZoya) led an all-female crew for a record-breaking @AirIndia flight from @flySFO to Bengaluru over the North Pole to celebrate International Women’s Day in January 2021. #avgeek #WomeninAviation #WomensEqualityDay2022 This tweet was posted on August 26, 2022.
Her interview and life story is part of the @SFOMuseum collection through the Museum’s Oral History Program and serves to inspire future generations of girls and women to follow their dreams. #avgeek #WomeninAviation #WomensEqualityDay2022 #WomensEqualityDay This tweet was posted on August 26, 2022.
Don’t leave a condensation ring behind, put a coaster under your cold drink! Browse our online database to see almost 200 coasters in our collection: https://t.co/wYeQBHDtpj #avgeek #coaster #museum #collection This tweet was posted on August 29, 2022.
Airlines carefully conceived their chinaware, flatware, and glassware for presentation, utilization, storage, and durability. Manufacturers often created tableware bearing the airline’s service mark or logo, as well as other unique patterns. #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek #PaxEx This tweet was posted on October 21, 2022.
During the early years of commercial flight, the nourishment needs of passengers became a primary focus for nascent airlines. To provide a restaurant-style inflight dining experience, airlines also considered the tableware comprising the meal service set. #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 21, 2022.
In 1986, USAir, driven by other mergers taking place in the aviation industry, (Western airlines was purchased by Delta Air Lines and AirCal was bought by American Airlines) acquired PSA. PSA's last flight was on April 8, 1988. #DefunctThursday #PacificSouthwestAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 21, 2022.
“More than a Meal” presents eight airline meal service sets from the 1960s to the 1980s, along with menus & images of inflight meal services from the time. See this exhibition pre-security in the Intl Terminal or online at: https://t.co/RZvuSbU32G #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek #PaxEx This tweet was posted on October 21, 2022.
This wine glass was specially designed not to spill during turbulence & was used in 1936 during the first commercial transpacific passenger flight on the Martin M-130 Hawaii Clipper. Browse through over 100 drink glasses on our collection website! https://t.co/Iw4MUMpOjX #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 18, 2022.
Happy birthday to Oleg Cassini! Born #onthiday in Paris in 1913, the fashion designer introduced a fitted suit for TWA hostesses in 1955. #OlegCassini #uniform #avgeek #flightattendant This tweet was posted on April 11, 2022.
In a medium brown wool for winter, this summer version in lightweight green wool has a collarless jacket and belted skirt. The embroidered lettering was repeated on the cotton blouse. #OlegCassini #uniform #avgeek #flightattendant This tweet was posted on April 11, 2022.
The colors were coordinated with the cabin interiors of the airline’s Lockheed Constellation for trans-Atlantic service at the height of the propliner era. #OlegCassini #uniform #avgeek #flightattendant This tweet was posted on April 11, 2022.
Where would your dream vacation be? Allow us to inspire you: browse through over two hundred airline posters on our collection website! https://t.co/p3qlCnTw0H #collections #airlineposters #design #posters #avgeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on April 12, 2022.
By 1934, all four subsidiaries had been fully absorbed into a single company operating as United Air Lines, which became the major carrier on the San Francisco–Chicago–New York route known as the “Main Line.” #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
Founded #onthisday in 1926, United Airlines was formed by a merger of four companies. National Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, and Varney Air Lines were organized in 1931 under United Air Lines, Inc. #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
Happy birthday, Dame Vivienne Westwood! The fashion designer, born #onthisday in 1941, was a major influence in British punk fashion. She brought her unique style to @VirginAtlantic in 2014 with this uniform to match the airline’s maverick attitude. #VivienneWestwood #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 08, 2022.
By the end of the decade, flight attendant uniforms became cool and chic rather than regimented and conservative. This exhibition features some of the wilder uniforms made between 1967–74 for Braniff, Northwest Orient, Pan American, TWA, and United. #FlightPatterns #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 04, 2022.
Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv, in modern day #Ukraine in 1889. In 1923, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation (later renamed the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company). Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) is named in his honor. #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 01, 2022.
This is your last week to see “Flight Patterns—Airline Uniforms from the 1960s–70s.” During the 1960s, conservative-yet-elegant flight attendant suits evolved into ensembles that mirrored the fun-loving, free-spirit of the time. #FlightPatterns #avgeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on April 04, 2022.
With rising competition between airlines, flight attendants’ service and uniforms and became an integral part of airlines’ advertising strategies. It seemed there were no boundaries as airlines combined the luxury of air travel with bold looks. #FlightPatterns #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 04, 2022.