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Ansett Airways was founded in 1935 by Sir Reginald Myles "Reg" Ansett in Australia.
This image was posted on January 27, 2022.
#australia #defunctthursday #avgeek #aviationhistory
#OnThisDay in 1959, an American Airlines Boeing 707 took off from Los Angeles to New York.
This image was posted on January 25, 2022.
#avgeek #americanairlines #boeing #otd #aviationhistory
#Onthisday in 1895, legendary fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga was born in Getaria, Spain.
This image was posted on January 21, 2022.
#avgeek #balenciaga #uniform #airfrance
Air California was formed in 1965 by a group of Orange County businessmen who recognized a great need to serve the rapidly expanding business communities and population centers of the region with intrastate air service from their local Orange County Airport (later renamed John Wayne Airport).
This image was posted on January 20, 2022.
#defunctthursday #avgeek #aircal #aircalifornia
#Onthisday in 1889 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation founder Allan Lockheed was born in Fremont, California.
This image was posted on January 20, 2022.
#avgeek #lockheed #sfhistory #aviationhistory
In 1972, Emilio Pucci (1914–92) designed the “727 Braniff Place Blue Pant Collection” to commemorate the company’s growing fleet of Boeing 727 trijet airliners.
This image was posted on January 18, 2022.
#flightpatterns #braniff #emiliopucci #pucci #uniform #flightattendant #avgeek
#Onthisday in 1935, Amelia Earhart departed from Honolulu, HI bound for Oakland, CA.
This image was posted on January 11, 2022.
#ameliaearhart #avgeek #avatrix #womeninaviation #aviationhistory
Today is Pan American Aviation Day.
This image was posted on December 17, 2021.
#panamericanaviationday #wrightbrothers #wrightflyer #avgeek
Maxine Crookston (1915–2016) was known as “The Voice of San Francisco Airport” from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
This image was posted on December 13, 2021.
#sfohistory #avgeek #sfo #sfhistory
Each airport around the world is assigned a three-letter IATA (International Air Transport Association) code to make them easily and quickly identifiable.
This image was posted on December 06, 2021.
#avgeek #sfo #sfohistory
The Hughes H-4 flying boat, also known as the “Spruce Goose,” was designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company as an ultra-large, transoceanic military transport for use during World War II.
This image was posted on December 01, 2021.
#wingwendesday #sprucegoose #avgeek
Can you believe it has been 20 years?
This image was posted on December 01, 2021.
#avgeek #aviation #twa #otd #aviationhistory
Braniff International Airways declared 1965 as “The End of the Plain Plane” after they hired advertising executive Mary Wells Lawrence (b.
This image was posted on November 30, 2021.
#flightpatterns #braniff #emiliopucci #pucci #uniform #flightattendant #avgeek #fashion
#Onthisday in 1953, American Airlines introduced the DC-7 as its first non-stop, transcontinental airliner.
This image was posted on November 29, 2021.
#avgeek #airplane #dc7
The A350 is Airbus’ most recent long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner.
This image was posted on November 24, 2021.
#wingwednesday #a350 #airbus #avgeek
As airline travel became more reliable during the 1930s, San Francisco’s airport initiated major improvements to keep pace.
This image was posted on November 23, 2021.
#sfohistory #millsfield #airport #avgeek #aviationhistory
What’s happening at the museum?
This image was posted on November 22, 2021.
#behindthescenes #museumlife #avgeek #modelairplane #museummonday
From the career history of Captain Charles Marinus Sundby, who served with companies including the Danish Naval Air Service and the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC): a celebration of his first solo flight on June 21, 1935, at the Avnø Air Station.
This image was posted on November 18, 2021.
#avgeek #pilotlife #1930s
e Boeing 787 is the latest wide-body jet airliner manufactured by Boeing.
This image was posted on November 17, 2021.
#wingwednesday #boeing787 #boeing #avgeek
The Airbus A380 is the world's only full-length double-decker commercial airliner.
This image was posted on November 10, 2021.
#wingwednesday #airbus #a380 #avgeek #airplane
Happy Birthday, Macario Jiménez!
This image was posted on November 08, 2021.
#fashion #flightattendant #crewlife #aeromexico #macariojiménez #avgeek
Boeing adopted the two-engine, widebody concept with its 777 airliner, which was introduced on June 7, 1995, with United Airlines.
This image was posted on November 03, 2021.
#wingwednesday #boeing #777 #boeing777 #avgeek #airplane
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.
This image was posted on November 01, 2021.
#paainca #panam #avgeek #earlyaviation
Introduced by Lufthansa and Air France on March 15, 1993, the Airbus A340 is a four engine wide-body jet aircraft built for long-range and ultra-long-range flights.
This image was posted on October 27, 2021.
#wingwednesday #airbus #a340 #avgeek
Taking off from Idlewild Airport in New York #onthisday in 1958, Pan American World Airways became the first airline to inaugurate scheduled transatlantic commercial jet service on a Boeing 707.
This image was posted on October 26, 2021.
#boeing707 #boeing #jetage #avgeek
#OnThisDay in 1974, the Aérospatiale/British Aircraft Corporation Concorde supersonic transport (SST) landed at SFO.
This image was posted on October 21, 2021.
#avgeek #sfohistory #concorde
During the 1920s and early 1930s, airlines found it difficult to make a profit in commercial aviation without a lucrative airmail route contract.
This image was posted on October 19, 2021.
#panamerican #panam #paa #avgeek #aviationhistory
Over SFO’s 94 years in operation, the airport has changed dramatically.
This image was posted on October 18, 2021.
#millsfieldsfo #sfohistory #avgeek #aviationhistory #airport
Happy Birthday, Ralph Lauren!
This image was posted on October 14, 2021.
#ralphlauren #avgeek #uniform #crewlife
The design of the A310 was based on the A300, the first widebody airliner produced by Airbus Industrie.
This image was posted on October 06, 2021.
#wingwednesday #a310 #airbus #airplane #avgeek
#OnThisDay in 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled out of Boeing's massive facility in Everett, Washington.
This image was posted on September 30, 2021.
#avgeek #boeing #widebody #jetage #boeing747
In September 2020, SFO had a special visit from an unusual airplane, a Volga-Dnepr Airlines Antonov AN-124 Ruslan!
This image was posted on September 27, 2021.
#sfohistory #sfo #avgeek
By September 21, 1927, Hangar No.
This image was posted on September 23, 2021.
#sfo #sfohistory #avgeek #aviationhistory #airport
The 767 was the first two-engine widebody airliner produced by Boeing.
This image was posted on September 22, 2021.
#wingwednesday #boeing767 #avgeek #boeing