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In the wake of World War II, Australian airline companies embarked on the task establishing an air route across the Pacific Ocean to the United States. #AustralianAirliners #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 29, 2022.
In 1911, Harriet Quimby became the first woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license. She trained and earned her license at the Moisant Aviation School in New York. In 1912, she became the first woman to cross the English Channel in an airplane. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on July 06, 2022.
In 1912, Julia Clark became the third woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license. Michigan-born Clark (1880–1912) became interested in aviation in 1911, when she attended the Chicago International Aviation Meet. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on August 03, 2022.
The history of one of the United States’ most storied airlines, Pan American Airways, stretches back to 1927 and will be a multi-part #DefunctThursday. Founded in 1927 by Juan Trippe, #PanAm grew rapidly, purchasing or partnering with numerous competing airlines along the way. This tweet was posted on August 04, 2022.
Lillian Janeway Atwater (1890–1937) was the first woman to fly a hydroplane in the United States. In 1911, she began hydroplane pilot training with her husband William Atwater at the Curtiss School of Aviation in North Island, San Diego. #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 10, 2022.
As Pan American was not licensed to operate domestic routes within in the United States, the company purchased National Airlines in 1980. This did not prove be a good financial takeover as the company would have liked. #PanAm #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.
From the 19th century, in both Britain and the United States, fashionable homes in the Aesthetic Movement style featured interiors with tripartite walls that displayed a dado, a fill pattern, and a frieze. #VictorianPaperedWall #wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on October 26, 2022.
📸: poster: United Air Lines, San Francisco; 1951 Purchase 1994.09.02 https://t.co/sIoWBEsuFT This tweet was posted on April 15, 2022.
By 1934, all four subsidiaries had been fully absorbed into a single company operating as United Air Lines, which became the major carrier on the San Francisco–Chicago–New York route known as the “Main Line.” #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
Founded #onthisday in 1926, United Airlines was formed by a merger of four companies. National Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, and Varney Air Lines were organized in 1931 under United Air Lines, Inc. #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
RT @united: It's our birthday and we'll fly if we want to! 🎉🎂✈️ #96thBirthday This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
📸 2/3: photograph: Boeing Air Transport (BAT), Ford Tri-Motor; c. 1934 Gift of the Family of Raymond B. Klinke, Sr. 2019.080.054 photograph: Varney Air Lines, Leon D. Cuddleback; c. 1926 Gift of United Airlines Archives 1999.047.184 This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
📸 3/3: photograph: San Francisco Airport, United Air Lines, Douglas DC-3; 11/16/1938 Transfer from San Francisco International Airport 1997.52.050.002 b This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
📸1/3: photograph: Curtiss Carrier Pigeon; 1920s Gift of United Airlines Archives 1999.047.217 photograph: Pacific Air Transport, Fokker F-10A (Super Tri-Motor); c. 1930 Gift of United Airlines Archives 1999.047.132 This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
By the end of the decade, flight attendant uniforms became cool and chic rather than regimented and conservative. This exhibition features some of the wilder uniforms made between 1967–74 for Braniff, Northwest Orient, Pan American, TWA, and United. #FlightPatterns #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 04, 2022.
📸1/2: luggage label: United Air Lines, Hawaii; c. 1950 2017.112.082 https://t.co/lWupw0wmNN . luggage label: Yukon Southern Air Transport; 1940s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.168.336 https://t.co/n9G5kKVjM9 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.
Smart looking and allowing greater ease of mobility for the demands of jet service, it was issued from 1965 to 1968 and became known as “the cheerleader” because of its flared skirt. #avgeek #WilliamTravilla #united This tweet was posted on March 22, 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.
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.
#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.
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.
This International Women’s Day, learn more about pioneering aviatrix Katherine Stinson. Born in Fort Payne, Alabama, Katherine Stinson (1891-1977) was the fourth woman in the United States to obtain a pilot’s certification. #InternationalWomensDay #KatherineStinson This tweet was posted on March 08, 2022.
📸: advertisement: United Aircraft Corporation; 1949 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2014.110.027 https://t.co/C9FuDgfCPn This tweet was posted on February 28, 2022.
Did you get it right? The answer was Miami Sands! This 1968 United Airlines uniform was also offered in Hawaiian Sunset and Maliblue. See more flight attendant uniforms in "#FlightPatterns" on display in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 or online at: https://t.co/hPoLHA3zf2 https://t.co/u8ckgd8E40 This tweet was posted on March 02, 2022.
Did you get it right? The answer was Wonder Bread! This 1973 United Air Lines uniform was reminiscent of the spotted packaging of Wonder Bread! See more flight attendant uniforms in "#FlightPatterns" on display in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 or online at: https://t.co/FbC47meGtH https://t.co/1s08yxlD11 This tweet was posted on March 04, 2022.
BEA inaugurated Comet 4B jetliner service to numerous destinations in Europe in April 1960. In 1974, BEA merged back with British Overseas Airways Corporation to form British Airways, the current flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. #DefunctThursday #BEA #BOAC #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 24, 2022.
RT @airandspace: Mary W. Jackson was the first Black female engineer at NASA. Jackson started in the West Area Computing Unit at the Langle… This tweet was posted on February 28, 2022.
📸: Curta calculator patent drawing 1949 United States Patent and Trademark Office R2021.0919.001 Curta mechanical pocket calculator and parts c. 1950 Contina AG, Liechtenstein Courtesy of Cliff Stoll L2021.0902.005, .006 This tweet was posted on February 16, 2022.
📸2/2: photograph: United Air Lines, Boeing 247; c. 1934 Gift of the Family of Raymond B. Klinke, Sr. 2019.080.031 This tweet was posted on February 08, 2022.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Wonder what was on the menu of a United Air Lines flight on this day in 1963? Served aloft aboard the Mainliner aircraft was a flaked tuna vinaigrette, a pot roast of beef burgundy, and a sweetheart cake. #avgeek #united #menu #ValentinesDay This tweet was posted on February 14, 2022.
RT @airandspace: On this day in 1964, Beatlemania arrived in the United States via airplane as the Beatles touched down in New York for the… This tweet was posted on February 07, 2022.
The first flight of the Boeing 247 took off #onthisday in 1933. Often referred to as the first modern airliner, the ten-passenger airliner was primarily operated on United’s “Mainline” transcontinental route. #AvGeek #Boeing #United This tweet was posted on February 08, 2022.
📸 1/2: photograph: United Air Lines, Boeing 247; c. 1933 Gift of United Airlines Archives 1999.047.295 photograph: United Air Lines Boeing 247; mid 1930s Purchase 1993.15.003.07 This tweet was posted on February 08, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1935, Amelia Earhart departed from Honolulu, HI bound for Oakland, CA. With this historic flight, she became the first person to fly solo to the United States mainland from Hawai’i. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 11, 2022.