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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.
The medium- to short-haul, narrow-bodied aircraft have ranges of up to 4,315 miles and cruising speeds of around 515mph. The A320 family was the first to feature an entirely computerized glass cockpit and digital fly-by-wire flight control technology. #WingWenesday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 13, 2021.
SFO has witnessed great strides in aviation. For close to a century, the airport reinvented itself numerous times. Looking out over the busy runways and terminals today, one can only imagine the lonely stretch of pastureland that predated SFO. #MillsFieldSFO #SFOHistory #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 18, 2021.
Based on the earlier A300, the Airbus A310 had a shortened fuselage with a redesigned wing and undercarriage. It also had a lower purchase price than other wide-body airliners and was designed to be more economical to operate. #WingWednesday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 06, 2021.
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The Airbus A300 was the first wide-body airliner produced by Airbus Industrie, a European aerospace manufacturing consortium formed in 1970. Both the A300 and A310 established Airbus as a major European airliner manufacturer. #WingWednesday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 06, 2021.
Boeing's purpose-built plant in Everett, Washington, is the largest building in the world by volume, with a total volume of 472,370,319 cubic feet, covering a floor area of 399,480 square meters (98.3 acres). Have you ever been to the Boeing assembly plant? #avgeek This tweet was posted on September 30, 2021.
#OnThisDay in 1968, the first 747 rolled out of Boeing's Everett, Washington plant. The plant was completed in 1967, and within it, a large group of Boeing employees nicknamed "The Incredibles" built the first 747-100. #avgeek This tweet was posted on September 30, 2021.
#OnThisDay in 1930, the City and County of San Francisco began to purchase the property of Mills Field, which would become @flySFO. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 30, 2021.
By 1930, weather studies confirmed that Mills Field was the best possible location for an airport, and San Francisco began a ten-year purchasing program with the Mills Estate to acquire 1,112 acres. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 30, 2021.
On September 15, 1963, the South Terminal (now Harvey Milk Terminal 1) was dedicated at San Francisco International Airport. This was the Airport's first major addition since the Central Terminal (now Terminal 2) was completed in 1954. #SFOHistory #SFHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on September 14, 2021.
Read “Lessons from Pan Am Flight 845” to learn how those actions kept all passengers and crew alive and how they influenced subsequent emergency trainings. Check it out on our website: https://t.co/mD9uaqKWOe #blogpost #Panam #avgeek #crewlife #hero This tweet was posted on August 31, 2021.
“There really wasn’t time to be scared. We were just too busy.” Our newest #blog post describes. through the career documents of Flight Attendant Jane Thoe, the actions of the crew of #PanAm World Airways Flight 845 in the first major accident involving a Boeing 747. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 31, 2021.
Airlines touted the L-1011’s twin aisle, wide-body passenger comforts, ease of operation, and reduced environmental impact. The galley was placed in the luggage compartment, and meals were brought up via elevators. #wingwednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2021.
Despite its accolades, only 250 were ordered, well short of the projected 500. It was Lockheed’s first and only entry into the widebody airliner market. #wingwednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2021.
The coach section of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar featured a full-service bar surrounded by small alcoves for socializing and was equipped with twin passenger seats that TWA claimed were the “finest coach seats in the world.” #wingwednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2021.