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📸: 1. postcard: Boeing; c. 1960 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2008.055.807 2. photograph: Boeing 707; 1957 Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family 2012.149.0832 This tweet was posted on December 20, 2022.
Browse through over one hundred images of Boeing 747s from our collection to see the variety of variants and liveries through the years: https://t.co/MzH6hwrDQD This tweet was posted on January 31, 2023.
The last commercial Boeing 747 is scheduled to be delivered today to Atlas Air from the Boeing Everett Factory. Introduced 53 years ago, the Boeing 747 created a whole new category of airliner, the wide-body jet. Have you ever flown on a 747? #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 31, 2023.
In 1963, American President Kennedy announced the launch of a government-funded SST program to compete with the Concorde project. Three airframe designs were selected for review: the North American Aviation NAC-60, the Boeing 733, and the Lockheed L-2000. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on February 09, 2023.
Did you know Bernard M. “Mike” Doolin, the fourth director of @flySFO was also an accomplished aviator? After serving as a pilot in during WWI, Doolin worked at Standard Oil and was frequently seen at SFO piloting a Boeing Model 40 and a Stearman 4 Junior Speedmail. #52Objects This tweet was posted on June 12, 2023.
However, wind tunnel tests demonstrated the Lockheed SST suffered from shifts in the aircraft’s center of pressure as it accelerated. The transfer of fuel partially solved this problem, but it was ultimately rejected in favor of the Boeing design. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on February 09, 2023.
In 1978, Gail Gorski became the first female pilot to be hired by United Airlines. Gorski, who started flying at the age of 16, was a Boeing 747 and DC-10 pilot based in the Bay Area and an original charter member of @ISA21_Pilots. #52Objects #WomensHistoryMonth #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 06, 2023.
But in 1971, with astronomically high costs, doubts about profitability, and pressure from environmental groups due to the noise pollution caused by supersonic aircraft, Congress cancelled funding for the SST program before Boeing could produce a prototype. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on March 21, 2023.
In 1963, the United States launched a government-funded Supersonic Transport (SST) program to compete with the joint British and French Concorde project. After much testing, Boeing SST’s design won the U.S. airframe contract. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on March 21, 2023.
Celebrations christening airplanes have their roots in christening events held for ships. This TWA (Trans World Airlines) Boeing 747-131, was christened the “City of San Francisco” by diplomat and former child star, Shirley Temple Black on April 5, 1970. #52Objects This tweet was posted on March 27, 2023.
📸: negative: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), TWA (Trans World Airlines), Boeing 747-100; 1970 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 2011.032.2241 https://t.co/dJEeCi4OFU This tweet was posted on March 27, 2023.
📸: poster: Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747-100; 1985 Gift of the Pan Am Historical Foundation 2014.039.056 https://t.co/S5lXFnfPNT This tweet was posted on March 31, 2023.
In the early 1940s, Pan American Airways established regular service to Auckland, New Zealand, with their Boeing 314 Clipper flying boats. #AirmailDownUnder #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 30, 2022.
People Express Airlines commenced operations on April 30, 1981. A low-cost airline inspired by Freddie Laker and Laker Air, the airline operated Boeing 727s, 737s, and 747s. #DefunctThursday #PeoplExpress #Avgeek This tweet was posted on September 08, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1981, the Boeing 767 departed on its first flight. It was introduced into service by United Airlines a year later, on September 8, 1982. #Boeing767 #avgeek #Boeing This tweet was posted on September 26, 2022.
📸: 1. postcard: Boeing 767; c. 1982 Purchase 1998.141.010 2. postcard: Boeing 767-300; c. 1990 Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family 2012.149.0598 This tweet was posted on September 26, 2022.
In production for over forty years, more than 1,200 of the aircraft have been—and continue to be!—built. Fun fact about the Boeing 767: it is the only Boeing airliner that is made in freighter, passenger and tanker versions. #Boeing767 #avgeek #Boeing This tweet was posted on September 26, 2022.
RT @museumofflight: End Of An Era: NASA's SOFIA Boeing 747 Has Taken Its Last Ever Flight https://t.co/lrtY74YrTs This tweet was posted on September 30, 2022.
By 1962, Piedmont's service extended to Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Their entry into the jet age was powered by a Boeing 727 in 1967. Piedmont started to operate Boeing 737s the next year. #DefunctThursday #Piedmont #AvGeek This tweet was posted on September 29, 2022.
📸 2/3: photograph: Piedmont Airlines, Boeing 727; c. 1970 Gift of the Frank J. Lichtanski Collection 2011.061.0273 photograph: Piedmont Airlines, Boeing 737; c. 1970 Gift of the Frank J. Lichtanski Collection 2011.061.0272 This tweet was posted on September 29, 2022.
By the mid-1960s, PSA had grown substantially and was flying record numbers of passengers. It added the turbojet Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 to its fleet and expanded its routes to include Sacramento, San Jose, and Ontario. #DefunctThursday #PacificSouthwestAirlines This tweet was posted on October 07, 2022.
📸 3/3: 5. postcard: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA), Boeing 727-100; c. 1970 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2008.055.537 This tweet was posted on October 07, 2022.
📸 2/2: brochure: Continental Airlines, Boeing 747; 1970 Gift of David A. Abercrombie in memory of Stanley A. Abercrombie 2001.039.209 https://t.co/dnl4JJ9J2W postcard: Continental Airlines, Boeing 707-320C; c.1970 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2008.055.293 This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
📸 3/3: postcard: Air New Zealand, Douglas DC-8-50; 1960s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.0036 model airplane: Air New Zealand, Boeing 747-400; c. 1990s Gift of Mark F. Adams Collection 2001.106.039 a b This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
With the addition of a Convair 880, CAT became Asia’s first regional airline to offer its passengers jet service on July 11, 1961. CAT replaced its Convair 880 with a Boeing 727 but it was lost near Taipei in Feb 1968. By May, CAT’s domestic services shut down. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on April 28, 2022.
May the fourth be with you! Have you ever seen ANA’s Boeing 777-300 featuring BB-8? Previously flown on the Tokyo to San Francisco route, the aircraft departed on its last flight in this livery on March 31, 2022. #MaytheFourth #StarWarsDay #AvGeek This tweet was posted on May 04, 2022.
Today is #NationalNursesDay. Did you know during the 1930s & 40s, stewardess across various airlines were required to be trained nurses? Ellen Church, a registered nurse, began her first shift as the first female cabin crewmember at Boeing Air Transport on May 15, 1930. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on May 06, 2022.
📸 2/2: brochure: Flying Tiger (Cargo); c. 1975 Gift of the Ralph F. Mitchell, Jr. Family 2013.146.031 promotional print: Flying Tiger Line, Boeing 707-349C; c. 1975 Gift of the Ralph F. Mitchell, Jr. Family 2013.146.184 This tweet was posted on May 12, 2022.
📸: safety information card: Pan American World Airways, Boeing 707; 1968 The Estate of Fred Nott 2004.016.047 https://t.co/J6EpJy6Zj7 This tweet was posted on May 17, 2022.
Its name changed to Northeast Airlines in 1940, and that decade saw Northeast's route service expanded into New York. In 1959, Northeast became one of the first domestic carriers to offer jet service between New York and Miami using Boeing 707s. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on June 23, 2022.
Entering the jet age, the company purchased Douglas DC-8s, Boeing 720s, and Boeing 707-320s. After merging with Republic Airlines in 1986, the company dropped Orient from their branding. #DefunctThursday #NorthwestOrient This tweet was posted on June 30, 2022.
The Boeing 307 Stratoliner was put into service #onthisday in 1940 by both Pan American and Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA). The #Stratoliner was the first commercial airliner to have a pressurized cabin. #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on July 08, 2022.
📸 3/3: photograph: Pan American Airways, Boeing 314, Auckland, New Zealand; c. 1940 Gift of Marion L. Yates in memory of John A. Yates, PAA April 1938 -1973 2006.014.003 This tweet was posted on October 12, 2022.
Only ten Boeing 307s were produced: one prototype, five for TWA, three for Pan American, and one for Howard Hughes. This one was looking good at @flySFO back in 1946! #AvGeek #Stratoliner This tweet was posted on July 08, 2022.
📸 1/2: postcard: Pan American Airways, Boeing 307 Stratoliner; 1942 Gift of the Pan Am Association 2000.058.1333 postcard: Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA), Boeing 307 Stratoliner; early 1940s Gift of TWA Clipped Wings International 2002.113.470 This tweet was posted on July 08, 2022.
📸 2/2: photograph: TWA (Transcontinental & Western Air), Boeing 307 Stratoliner; 1946 Gift of Charles Loomis 2005.062.011 a This tweet was posted on July 08, 2022.