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#OnThisDay in 1959, an American Airlines Boeing 707 took off from Los Angeles to New York. Landing at Idlewild, now known as Kennedy International Airport, the Boeing 707 completed the first scheduled nonstop intercontinental jet passenger service. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 25, 2022.
In 1957, Ansett acquired its major competitor ANA (Australian National Airways) and assumed the name Ansett-ANA. In 1964, Ansett-ANA received delivery of its first pure turbojet, the Boeing 727. #AnsettAirways #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 27, 2022.
It continued operating as a low-price domestic airline during the early 1950s. During the 1960s, the airline also offered service to New Guinea branded as “Golden Orchid” flights. #AnsettAirways #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 27, 2022.
Over-expansion into international markets eventually led to Ansett’s financial demise in 2001. Shortly after, a brief effort to revive the airline with limited services was unsuccessful, and in March 2002, the airline ceased operations. #AnsettAirways #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 27, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1949, Pan American World Airways received their first delivery of a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. #PanAm launched #Stratocruiser transpacific service from San Francisco to Hawai’i in April 1949, and transatlantic service to London in June 1949. #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 31, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1889 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation founder Allan Lockheed was born in Fremont, California. In 1915, he and his older brother, Malcolm Loughead, opened a flying concession at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, selling rides on their Model G aircraft #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 20, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1895, legendary fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga was born in Getaria, Spain. He opened an Air France department within his Paris fashion house for the creation of this stewardess uniform from 1969. #AvGeek #AirFrance #Balenciaga This tweet was posted on January 21, 2022.
The knee-length, shaped skirt has kangaroo pockets, and the turned down collar of the Terylene twill blouse adds to the outfit’s liberating comfort. After finishing the Air France collection, Balenciaga closed his fashion house. #AvGeek #Balenciaga #AirFrance This tweet was posted on January 21, 2022.
This winter suit, in navy blue woolen serge, perfects the semi-fitted look as it liberates the form and retains a lithe appearance. Overlaid flap pockets and a riding hat in satin velour create la mode aéronautique. #AvGeek #Balenciaga #AirFrance This tweet was posted on January 21, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1935, Amelia Earhart departed from Honolulu, HI bound for Oakland, CA. With this historic flight, she became the first person to fly solo to the United States mainland from Hawai’i. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 11, 2022.
SFO Museum is proud to announce the launch of our new collections’ website! Search through over 30,000 objects from our aviation collection. Take a look here: https://t.co/6UsAK6Y8WU #collections #museumlife #SFOHistory #AvGeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on January 12, 2022.
#PanAmericanAviationDay encourages citizens from North, Central, & South America to increase their interest in aviation and commemorates the Wright Brother’s first sustained flight of a controlled, powered, heavier-than-air aircraft. What is your favorite aviation memory? #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 17, 2021.
Crookston dreamed of flying as a child. She served with the Civil Air Patrol as a survey pilot and with the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor, but she was excluded from work as an airline pilot due to her gender. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Hired by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1942 as an air traffic controller in Salt Lake City, she transferred to San Francisco in 1946 and became the first female air traffic control watch supervisor in the country. #SFOHistory #avgeek #SFO #SFHistory This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Learn more about Maxine Crookston Schmidt in our exhibition, “Mills Field and the San Francisco Airport” on display in the SkyTerrace & online at: https://t.co/aL3GtInqlj The SkyTerrace, located pre-security in T2, is open Friday-Monday from 10am to 6pm. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Maxine Crookston (1915–2016) was known as “The Voice of San Francisco Airport” from the late 1940s through the 1950s. #SFOHistory #avgeek #SFO #SFHistory This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Each airport around the world is assigned a three-letter @IATA (International Air Transport Association) code to make them easily and quickly identifiable. @flySFO’s three letter code, SFO, first appeared in the “American Aviation Air Traffic Guide” in December 1947. #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 06, 2021.
"Flight Patterns" is on display post-security in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/O69YNba2Jq #FlightPatterns #AvGeek #Braniff #EmilioPucci #Pucci #uniform #flightattendant This tweet was posted on November 30, 2021.
Can you believe it has been 20 years? On December 1, 2001, the final Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight departed from Kansas City, Missouri, and landed in St. Louis. #avgeek #OTD This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
Originally formed as Transcontinental & Western Air in 1930, #TWA was one of the oldest airlines in the U.S. and traced its history back to Western Air Express, which was founded in 1925. What is your favorite TWA memory? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
The work requires assembling, documenting, photographing, and disassembling the models. This particular aircraft is a remote controlled 1:3.5 scale model of a Davis D-1 with a functional radial engine. #BehindtheScenes #AvGeek #MuseumMonday #MuseumLife This tweet was posted on November 22, 2021.
What’s happening at the museum? Our collections team is inventorying and surveying a group of model aircraft in our collection – some of which are quite large! #BehindtheScenes #AvGeek #MuseumMonday #MuseumLife This tweet was posted on November 22, 2021.
From the career history of Captain Charles Marinus Sundby: a celebration of his first solo flight on June 21, 1935, at the Avnø Air Station. It was traditional in the Danish Naval Air Service to give the successful soloist a bouquet of wildflowers. #avgeek #pilotlife This tweet was posted on November 18, 2021.
Introduced by Singapore Airlines on October 25, 2007, the last A380 built made its first flight in March 2021. 251 of the airliners were built between 2005 and 2021. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 10, 2021.
The Airbus A380 is the world's only full-length double-decker commercial airliner. It is currently the largest operating passenger jet in the world that can safely transport between 450 to 853 people, depending on class configuration. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 10, 2021.
Why, yes. @flySFO has always looked great at night, too. #avgeek #SFOHistory #ThrowbackThursday #TBT This tweet was posted on November 04, 2021.
The program called “Working Together” used computer-aided three-dimensional interactive applications, making the Boeing 777 the first completely digitally designed airplane. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 03, 2021.
The first Boeing aircraft to incorporate fly-by-wire controls, the 777 is also the first to use a fiber optic avionics network on a commercial airliner. Have you ever flown on a Boeing 777? #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 03, 2021.
Taking off from Idlewild airport in NY #onthisday in 1958, #PanAm became the first airline to inaugurate scheduled transatlantic commercial jet service on a Boeing 707. 111 passengers boarded the jetliner, named “Clipper America,” bound for Le Bourget Airport, Paris. #avgeek This tweet was posted on October 26, 2021.
Featuring images taken in Central America by #PanAm's public relations & advertising manager in the winter of 1930–31, “Pan American Airways in Central America” is on display pre-security on the departures level of Terminal 3 and online at https://t.co/cMoTZAe4Q1 #PAAinCA #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.
Pan American Airways began service in Central America with the Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor, a robust, three-engine, twelve-passenger airliner affectionately known as the “Tin Goose.” #PAAinCA #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.
Pan American Airways pioneered commercial airline service to Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when air travel was first developing into a viable form of transportation. #PAAinCA #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.
Pan American Airways was awarded the overseas airmail route from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, with a deadline to start by October 19, 1927. #Onthisday in 1927, Cy Caldwell took off for Havana from Key West in a Fairchild FC-2, named La Niña, with 7 bags of mail. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 19, 2021.
See “Mills Field and the San Francisco Airport” on display in the SkyTerrace. The SkyTerrace is open Friday through Monday pre-security in Terminal 2. https://t.co/aL3GtIF1cR #MillsFieldSFO #SFOHistory #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 18, 2021.
The A318 can seat up to 132 passengers, the 319 up to 156 passengers, the 320 up to 186 passengers and the 321 up to 236 passengers. #WingWenesday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 13, 2021.
The Airbus A320 family includes the Airbus A318, A319, A320, and A321. Introduced by Air France in 1988, Airbus has produced over 10,000 320 family aircraft to date. #WingWenesday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 13, 2021.