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Happy 100th Birthday KLM! This image was posted on October 07, 2019. #avgeek #klm #airfrance #happybirthday #klm100

Stanley Henry Page (1885-1964) was an early twentieth-century San Francisco Bay Area engineer who, like many young men of his generation, was inspired by the new technologies of flight. This image was posted on October 04, 2019. #stanleyhenrypage #avgeek #sanfrancisco #photography #sfhistory #aerialphotography

What did it take to mount and install the thirty-two lengths of wallpaper that make up the complete set of Zuber’s “Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord (Views of North America)”? This video was posted on October 03, 2019. #zuberscenicwallpaper #wallpaper #zuber #scenicwallpaper #interiordesign #museum #design #behindthescenes #museumlife

With the success of its Boeing 747 service, which began in 1970, Continental Airlines introduced its next jumbojet airliner in 1972, the DC-10 trijet, McDonnell Douglas’ first widebody airliner. This image was posted on October 02, 2019. #widebodyav #avgeek #widebody #jumbojet #jetage #dc10

The first #PanAm delivery of a Douglas DC-3 was #onthisday in 1937. This image was posted on October 01, 2019. #avgeek #dc3 #panam #paa #panamerican

People have moved many species around the world to help control pest insects. This image was posted on September 30, 2019. #intriguinginsects #worldofinsects #insects #entomology #ladybug

Celebrate National Public Lands Day with a short film at SFO. This image was posted on September 28, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #filmshort #nationalpubliclandsday #pattizbrothers #nationalparks #californiaredwoods #morethanjustparks #mtjp

#Onthisday in 1973, the first non-stop Concorde flight over the North Atlantic was completed in a record-breaking duration of 3 hours 33 minutes. This image was posted on September 26, 2019. #concorde #avgeek #airfrance

#Onthisday in 1903, Olive Ann Beech (née Mellor) was born in Kansas. This image was posted on September 25, 2019. #avgeek #womeninaviation #beechcraft #beech #womeninhistory

The husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata employ stop-motion to animate a 150-word poem by Ron Koerge in this poignant and bittersweet story about family, loss, and the finer points of packing a suitcase. This image was posted on September 25, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #stopmotion #poem #loss #packing #suitcase

The Boeing 747, which was first flown in 1969 and launched into service in 1970 by Pan American World Airways, revolutionized long-distance commercial air travel and set a completely new standard in airliner design, the “widebody” or “jumbojet.” Not to be left behind in the widebody market, aircraft manufacturers McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Aircraft followed with their own widebody airliners, the DC-10 and L-1011 TriStar. This image was posted on September 20, 2019. #widebodyav #avgeek #widebody #jetage #boeing747 #dc10 #lockheed

Insects have exoskeletons—which, along with jointed legs, are the defining characteristics of insects and other arthropods. This image was posted on September 19, 2019. #intriguinginsects #worldofinsects #insects #entomology #preservation #exoskeleton

When introduced in 1949 by Pan American World Airways, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was considered the most luxurious airliner aloft. This image was posted on September 19, 2019. #boeing377 #377 #stratocruiser #avgeek

It's Ask a Curator day! This image was posted on September 18, 2019. #askacurator #museum #museumlife

Before the advent of photography, a number of superbly illustrated books made in the early nineteenth century helped fuel the public’s fascination with foreign locales. This image was posted on September 17, 2019. #zuberscenicwallpaper #wallpaper #zuber #scenicwallpaper #interiordesign #museum #design

International Terminal A Air Train Station between 2003-02-24 and the present

Garage A AirTrain Station between 2003-02-24 and the present

Garage A between 2000 and the present

Before the advent of photography, a number of superbly illustrated books made in the early nineteenth century helped fuel the public’s fascination with foreign locales. This image was posted on September 17, 2019. #zuberscenicwallpaper #wallpaper #zuber #scenicwallpaper #interiordesign #museum #design

Organic life somehow emerges beneath the black waves of the first oceans in this composition and film produced as a long-distance collaboration between lifelong friends, Los Angeles-based Aurélien Rubod and London-based Michaël Stroudinsky. This video was posted on September 16, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #illustration #animation #oceans #dna #waves