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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.
Our newest gallery, the Kadish Gallery, is now open! Named after Ruth Kadish, SFO’s first female Airport Commissioner, Kadish was a champion of public art at SFO and was always thinking about how to make SFO a nicer place for passengers. #KadishGallery
This tweet was posted on November 24, 2021.
RT @flySFO: 🐾 🎵 Good morning! It’s a busy day to travel and great day fly through #SFO! @JaggerDwagger from the #SFOWagBrigade is here AND…
This tweet was posted on November 24, 2021.
”#MillsField and the San Francisco Airport” traces the evolution of @flySFO from a temporary airfield to a thriving and modern transportation hub. See the exhibition pre-security in the SkyTerrace, located in Terminal 2. SkyTerrace is open Friday to Monday from 10am to 6pm.
This tweet was posted on November 23, 2021.
Before long, Bruce began crafting his own Victorian wallpapers in the evenings and weekends at the studio in Benicia and established a mail-order business. In 1979, @BradburyWalls' first catalog featured twelve hand-silkscreened period wallpapers. #VictorianPaperedWall
This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
In 1981, Bruce moved into the studio where Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) still resides today, a nineteenth-century former U.S. Army arsenal in Benicia, California. #VictorianPaperedWall
This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
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Bruce Bradbury at his home in Vallejo showing drawings for a Vallejo Times-Herald article of a
California State Capitol commissioned restoration project c. 1982
Courtesy of Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers
R2021.1401.028
This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
Also featured are a profile of a bronc rider in northwest Montana maintaining a connection to the “old ways” to the visual splendor of diverse Native American cultures at the annual Gathering of Nations Powwow in New Mexico. #videoartsSFO
This tweet was posted on November 09, 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.
The clay was then ready to be turned on a “kick” or treadle wheel. Lastly, the dried wares were coated with an alkaline glaze solution. #StonewareStories
This tweet was posted on November 19, 2021.
The potter weighed the necessary amount of clay according to the size of the vessel that they wanted to produce, kneaded the clay, then formed the clay into a ball. #StonewareStories
This tweet was posted on November 19, 2021.
Thomas Chandler and other Edgefield, SC, potters often mixed different clays together to achieve the proper balance and ground their clays in a pug mill to obtain the right consistency for turning. #StonewareStories
This tweet was posted on November 19, 2021.
📸: model airplane: ANA (All Nippon Airways), Boeing 787-8; 2008
Transfer from City and County of San Francisco
2009.036.007 a b
poster: Boeing 787 Dreamliner; c. 2011
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2014.081.025
This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
Our #conservator Alisa makes sure that objects are able to withstand the rigors of display, and look their best. In a new blog post, she explains the process she took to polish and clean the silver plate objects in “Eclectic Taste: Victorian Silver Plate”. https://t.co/Whj1aB5KFB
This tweet was posted on November 12, 2021.
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model airplane: Singapore Airlines, Airbus A380; c. 2008
Transfer
2011.212.005 a b
This tweet was posted on November 10, 2021.
In the late 1970s, Thiebaud concentrated on a series of San Francisco cityscapes that became a signature theme. Created from a combination of direct observation and memory, these paintings present a dizzying perspective of SF’s extraordinary topography. #WayneThiebaud #publicart
This tweet was posted on November 15, 2021.
RT @airandspace: Mary Riddle was the first female member of a #NativeAmerican tribe to earn her pilot’s license. She is pictured here on th…
This tweet was posted on November 15, 2021.
Built in the mid-19th century, the Kolkata Suburban Railway is the largest of its kind in India by track length and number of stations. Today, nearly a third of the population lives in areas of informal housing, many of which are located along the railway tracks. #ArkoDatto
This tweet was posted on November 05, 2021.
Jiménez’s Aeroméxico uniform, worn from 2008 to 2011, is a black knit suit worn with a skirt or pants. The trim, tailored look of the jacket and skirt is highlighted with red piping, a two-tone tie belt, and dramatic kick pleat. The outfit is finished with a multicolor scarf.
This tweet was posted on November 08, 2021.
This month the Video Arts gallery features films including a Pyramid Lake Paiute mother passing equestrian traditions on to her children in northern Nevada to the expression of pride in family and culture among Navajo Nation members. #videoartsSFO
This tweet was posted on November 09, 2021.
Boeing adopted the two-engine, widebody concept with its 777 airliner, which was introduced on June 7, 1995. The 777 was a joint collaborative project between Boeing & 8 major airlines, including United, ANA (All Nippon Airways), British Airways, & Japan Airlines. #WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on November 03, 2021.
The world’s largest twin jet, the Boeing 777 has the capacity to seat between 317 and 396 passengers in a 2 class configuration and has a range of 6,000 to 8,400 miles. With a cruising speed of 554 mph, some variations of the 777 can operate long-haul polar routes. #WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on November 03, 2021.
This equinoctial inclining sundial includes a compass for alignment and a hinged dial face that adjusts to various locations listed on the back. #AntiqueScientificInstruments
This tweet was posted on November 02, 2021.
Happy birthday to Daniel Green!! Daniel was one of the featured artists in our exhibition "Celebrating a Vision: Art and Disability" which was on display in 2016. Revisit the exhibition online at: https://t.co/OOIIwMjgwE https://t.co/n2ThB7vbbm
This tweet was posted on November 04, 2021.
RT @airandspace: Born in a remote village in Unakleet, Alaska, Ariel Tweto’s childhood was unusual—she practically grew up in the back of a…
This tweet was posted on November 04, 2021.
RT @airandspace: Today in 1929, 26 licensed women pilots changed aviation history when they met to discuss the formation of a club that wou…
This tweet was posted on November 04, 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.
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model airplane: Boeing 777; c. 1990s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
1999.061.018 a b
This tweet was posted on November 03, 2021.
Happy Birthday to the late Margaret Kilgallen, born #onthisday in 1967. After graduating from Colorado College in 1989, she moved to San Francisco, where she fell into orbit with a loose group of artists that would later become known as the Mission School. #MargaretKilgallen
This tweet was posted on October 28, 2021.
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.
#WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on October 27, 2021.
RT @panamhistory: Experience a bit of aviation excitement, circa 1929: “A Quick Trip to Havana”, a very short film about a trip on a #PanAm…
This tweet was posted on November 01, 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.
The A340 has a capacity to accommodate between 210 and 440 passengers and a range of 6,700 to 9,000 nautical miles, depending on the variant. Still in service, Airbus ceased production of the A340 in 2011. #WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on October 27, 2021.
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poster: Air France, Airbus A340; early 1990s
Gift of Air France
2005.119.005
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photograph: Lufthansa, Airbus A340-200; c. 1995
Gift of Hans and Margret Steuck
2011.046.032
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model airplane: Airbus A340 (Project TA11); 1990s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
1999.061.020 a b
This tweet was posted on October 27, 2021.
Introduced by Finnair on December 20, 1990, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is currently only used as a cargo aircraft. Production was ended in 2000 after 200 airframes were built.
#WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on October 20, 2021.

























