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Get a sneak peek at “From Pineapple to Piña” here: https://t.co/lViMDuFDIc This tweet was posted on April 01, 2022.
Our upcoming exhibit on piña lace, a Philippine textile made from pineapple fiber, presented our preparators with the challenge of how to safely display these delicate works of art. They came up with the perfect, conservator-approved solution: Fosshape. #behindthescenes This tweet was posted on April 01, 2022.
📸 1/2: poster: CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation); c. 1935 Purchase 2019.121.0018 negative: China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC); c. 1939 The Estate of Fred Nott 2004.016.191 a b This tweet was posted on March 31, 2022.
Get a sneak peek at “From Pineapple to Piña” here: https://t.co/lViMDuFDIc #behindthescenes #sneakpeek This tweet was posted on April 05, 2022.
In the mid-1950s, foreseeing a great potential market, luggage manufacturers secured rights to produce airline-branded bags in large numbers. https://t.co/lxrTAH6zQF #flightbags #airlinebags #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 05, 2022.
Sold through mail-order catalogs and at airport stores and sometimes given out to first-class passengers, airline bags became a desirable status symbol that identified its user as a member of the new globe-trotting jet set. https://t.co/oVQUiov5WJ #flightbags #airlinebags #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 05, 2022.
📸 3/3: A woman operates a foolproof American SIGABA cipher machine, decrypting messages, and intercepting and forwarding enemy coded messages c. 1944 Courtesy of the National Cryptologic Museum (@NatCryptoMuseum) R2021.0910.003 This tweet was posted on March 28, 2022.
📸: airline bag: United Air Lines; c. 1968 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2009.028.037 a b airline bag: Cathay Pacific Airways; 1970s Gift of the William Hough Collection 2004.061.008 This tweet was posted on April 05, 2022.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH 1933, Boeing delivered the first modern airliner, a 247 monoplane, to United Airlines. With its sleek, low-wing, all… This tweet was posted on March 31, 2022.
Bonnie Tiburzi became the first woman to fly for a major commercial carrier when she was hired by American Airlines in 1973. She began at American as part of its Boeing 727 Astrojet flight crew, and in 1988 was promoted to captain. #WomeninAviation #avgeek #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 23, 2022.
China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) was Asia’s first sustained commercial airline. Scheduled service began on October 21, 1929, along a 525-mile route from Shanghai to Hankou with two passengers and one pound of mail. #DefunctThursday #CNAC This tweet was posted on March 31, 2022.
During the pandemic, Oakland-based filmmaker Ivan Cash and Los Angeles-based choreographer Jacob Jonas bring people together from all over the world who are dancing, playing music, providing a tour of their refrigerator, and introducing their pets. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/uU3DHQbYnv This tweet was posted on March 31, 2022.
From 1929 to 1936, CNAC logged a total of 46,404 passengers and 838,271 pounds of mail flown over 5,538,974 miles. #DefunctThursday #CNAC This tweet was posted on March 31, 2022.
London-based filmmakers Felix Bazalgette and Josh Hughes transport us to a night shift at the oldest daily newspaper in Sierra Leone, which is produced in a loud, dimly lit printing press operated by a brotherhood of men. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/uYbhlXX0yd This tweet was posted on March 24, 2022.
Olive Ann Beech (née Mellor) was born in Kansas in 1903. Olive Ann and her husband Walter established Beechcraft in 1932. After he died in 1950, she became the company’s president, and the first woman to head a major aircraft corporation. #avgeek #Beechcraft #womenshistorymonth This tweet was posted on March 30, 2022.
The lightly fitted jacket has a distinct chelsea collar and a three-quarter-length sleeve with a detachable dropped cuff. The short sleeve blouse has a banded waist and an attached jabot neckpiece for the insignia pin. #avgeek #WilliamTravilla #united This tweet was posted on March 22, 2022.
📸: American Airlines Flight Officer Bonnie Tiburzi in a Boeing 727 c. 1973 SFO Museum Collection 1994.37.01 This tweet was posted on March 23, 2022.
After its multi-million dollar computerized reservation system broke down over the Fourth of July weekend in 1968, causing a public relations fiasco, billionaire mogul Howard Hughes, in stepped to acquire the troubled airline. In 1970, the renamed Hughes Airwest began operations. This tweet was posted on March 24, 2022.
RT @airandspace: In 1958, Emily Howell Warner took her first-ever airplane trip to decide if she wanted to be a stewardess— and left the pl… This tweet was posted on March 28, 2022.
The Pan American Airways Marine Air Terminal on Dinner Key in Miami, Florida, was considered a milestone of design in commercial aviation when it opened #onthisday in 1934. The building served as #PanAm’s base for operations throughout the Caribbean, Central, and South America. This tweet was posted on March 25, 2022.
📸 1/3: Air West stewardess uniform and insignia 1968 Designed by Oleg Cassini SFO Museum 2007.051.003 L2014.2801.036 Dress and jacket gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2014.081.027 L2014.2801.034, .035 Boots gift of TWA Clipped Wings International 2002.113.122 a b L2014.2801.037 This tweet was posted on March 24, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1947, the #Convair 240 made its maiden flight. It could carry forty passengers comfortably and had a range of up to 1,200 miles. Introduced by American Airlines in 1948, 176 were produced for numerous airlines worldwide. #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 16, 2022.
During World War II, all sides used mechanical ciphers. The U.S. military’s M-209 portable crypto machine required users to encrypt text one letter at a time. By turning a crank, the scrambled message printed out on paper tape. #MathAtSFO #Math #cryptology #cipher This tweet was posted on March 28, 2022.
RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1929, Louise Thaden—one of America's most captivating aeronautical record-setters—registered a women's solo endura… This tweet was posted on March 17, 2022.
Canadian director Nathan Boey orchestrates forty animators from forty countries uniting with the same directive—the creation of a 3-second animation of a ball that is then passed to a fellow animator in another country and to pick up where you left off. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/9UOy6kuxfY This tweet was posted on March 18, 2022.
In 1968, Air West was formed out of a merger of three regional carriers: Pacific Air Lines, Bonanza Air Lines, and West Coast Airlines. All three were struggling financially and a consolidation of routes and equipment seemed the best solution at the time #DefunctThursday #AirWest This tweet was posted on March 17, 2022.
Using a large-format film camera, Soren photographs tablet screens to reveal the marks left behind—the fingerprints, smudges, and oily residue of our engagement with the images below the surface. #TabithaSoren #Photography #Techonology #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 21, 2022.
#OnThisDay in 1923, French fashion designer André Courrèges was born. His 1973 uniform for UTA had a skirt or flared trousers option, a fitted sweater, and a short jacket in imitation leather. The pearlescent pink, powder blue, or red outfits came with white vinyl flat boots. This tweet was posted on March 09, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1920, Hollywood costume designer and Academy Award winner, William Travilla, was born in Los Angeles, California. Well known for dressing Marilyn Monroe, Travilla created this synthetic blend, summer seasonal ensemble for #United in a new color named Blue Frost. This tweet was posted on March 22, 2022.
Brought together, Soren’s images serve as a poignant meditation on the role of digital devices in society and offer a reminder of the traces, both physical and digital, that we leave behind when using them. #TabithaSoren #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 21, 2022.
Norie Sato’s imagery was inspired by our relationship to clouds and flight. The artwork depicts the dual experience of being under or over clouds when flying in a plane.#5WomenArtists #NorieSato #Painting #silkscreen #PublicArt @SFAC This tweet was posted on March 10, 2022.
“A polka dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colorful, senseless and unknowing. Polka dots are a way to infinity.” - Yayoi Kusama says. #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 22, 2022.
@landais_cedric @Madamefigaro @Barbie WOW! This is amazing! What a collection! Thank you so much sharing! This tweet was posted on March 10, 2022.
Capital used its company name as a territorial signifier to identify with the capital city. In 1961, Capital was absorbed by United Air Lines. #DefunctThursday #CapitalAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 10, 2022.
For its brand, a stylized eagle symbol was developed with a rigid, airplane-like wing that blended the natural with the mechanical. The eagle flew under a constellation of stars arrayed like destinations on a route map. #DefunctThursday #CapitalAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 10, 2022.
Happy Pi Day! The mathematical sign of pi represents the infinite, non-repeating number that is the ratio of a circumference of a circle to its diameter, commonly shortened to 3.14159. #PiDay #math #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 14, 2022.