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🧵 The scale 1:10 United Air Lines DC-8 model in "Jet Mainliner in Miniature: The United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 Cutaway Model” is one of the largest objects in our collection. Conservators performed a thorough assessment of the model and developed a plan to address its condition. This tweet was posted on September 06, 2022.

See “Jet Mainliner in Miniature: The United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 Cutaway Model” on display, in the Aviation Museum, located pre-security in the International Terminal or online at: https://t.co/IrPJ5oDXwo #jetage #aircraftmodels #avgeek #united #dc8 This tweet was posted on September 06, 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.

“Contrails Red” became the predominant color, while gold, orange, and black were retained as secondary colors. In 2011, Continental merged with United Airlines. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #aviationhistory #ContinentalAirlines This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.

📸: program: San Francisco Municipal Airport, Mills Field, United States Army Air Maneuvers; 1930 Gift of Clifford Keithley 2001.043.003 negative: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, U.S. Army Air Service maneuvers; 1930 Transfer from SFO 2007.048.001 This tweet was posted on April 20, 2022.

The jetliner was introduced by SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System) in April 1959, followed by Air France. United Air Lines was the only major U.S. carrier to purchase the aircraft and inaugurated service in 1961. #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

📸 1/2: photograph: United Air Lines, Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle, San Francisco International Airport (SFO); c. 1961 Anonymous gift 2016.115.003 postcard: Air France, Sud Aviation SE210 Caravelle; c. 1963 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2008.055.111 This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

📸 2/2: postcard: United Air Lines, Sud-Aviation 6R Caravelle; 1973 Gift of Howard Knapp 2001.136.012 postcard: United Air Lines, Sud Aviation Caravelle; 1960s Gift of David Armstrong Abercrombie 2015.037.165 This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

RT @airandspace: In 1932, Katherine Cheung became the first woman of Chinese descent to earn a pilot's license in the United States. She pe… This tweet was posted on May 03, 2022.

📸: United Air Lines, Ellen Church, first stewardess 1930 SFO Museum Collection Gift of United Airlines Archives 1999.047.311 This tweet was posted on May 06, 2022.

Introduced in 1959, the Douglas DC-8 was United Air Lines’ first jet airliner to be launched into service. Branded the “Jet Mainliner” by United, it was a major advancement in airliner design and officially launched the airline into the jet age. #aircraftmodels #avgeek #dc8 This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

To help promote the new airliner to the traveling public, United had Pacific Miniatures of Alhambra, CA, create several large cutaway models to highlight the DC-8’s new features & amenities, particularly its spacious & luxurious cabin interior. #aircraftmodels #avgeek #dc8 This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

Created to be an easily viewable, three-dimensional presentation of the Jet Mainliner in miniature, the cutaway model contains a highly detailed cockpit and cabin interior with minute features that accurately replicate the actual United DC-8 as launched in 1959. #aircraftmodels This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

See “Jet Mainliner in Miniature: The United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 Cutaway Model” only online at: https://t.co/IrPJ5olOig #jetage #aircraftmodels #avgeek #united #dc8 This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

📸 1/2: United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 Air Atlas route map; 1959 paper, ink Collection of SFO Museum Gift of the McAfee family in memory of Robert E. McAfee 2015.126.039 This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

📸 2/2: United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 Mainliner Captain R. T. Freng cutaway model aircraft; c. 1959 Pacific Miniatures, Alhambra, California scale 1:10 fiberglass, metal, wood, paint, plastic, paper, ink, fabric Gift of the Rollison Family 2018.128.001 a j This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

Started in 1945 by 11 former members of the Flying Tigers, the nickname for a special operations group of military pilots deployed to China during World War II, the Flying Tiger Line was the first scheduled all-cargo airline in the United States. #DefunctThursday #FlyingTigers This tweet was posted on May 12, 2022.

During the 1990s, #Mexicana took over some of AeroMexico's routes to Canada and South America and introduced the Airbus A320. In 2010, after nearly 85 years of operation, the company filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Mexico and ceased operations. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on May 19, 2022.

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.

In 1933, Marguerite Wildenhain (1896–1985) and her husband Frans Wildenhain (1905–1980) moved to Putten in the Netherlands and opened a pottery they named Het Kruikje, or The Little Jug. This image was posted on October 31, 2022. #californiamodernistwomen #margueritewildenhain #california #womenartists #modernism #pottery

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. This image was posted on October 26, 2022. #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper #wallpaperwednesday #design

Our 1:10-scale cutaway model of a United Air Lines DC-8 was created by Pacific Miniatures to be a promotional presentation of the Jet Mainliner in miniature. This image was posted on October 18, 2022. #minimainliner #jetage #aircraftmodels #avgeek #united #dc8

Airmail became a driving force in the development of commercial aviation after World War I, and airmail envelopes and letters were instant souvenirs of new routes and first flights. This image was posted on October 12, 2022. #airmaildownunder #airmail #avgeek #philately

#Onthisday in 1981, the Boeing 767 departed on its first flight. This image was posted on September 26, 2022. #boeing767 #avgeek #boeing #airplane

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The scale 1:10 United Air Lines DC-8 model on display in our exhibition "Jet Mainliner in Miniature: The United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 Cutaway Model” is one of the largest models in SFO Museum's collection. This image was posted on September 06, 2022. #jetage #aircraftmodels #avgeek #united #dc8 #museum

In the early 1940s, Pan American Airways established regular service to Auckland, New Zealand, with their Boeing 314 Clipper flying boats. This image was posted on August 30, 2022. #airmaildownunder #avgeek #philately #panam

Although Pan American World Airways experienced unprecedented success in the 1960s and 70s, by the end of the 1980s the company was struggling. This image was posted on August 25, 2022. #panam #defunctthursday #avgeek #aviationhistory

During the 1870s, stores specializing in Japanese art and merchandise, commonly referred to as Japanese novelty stores or fancy goods stores, opened across the United States—from New York and Boston to Philadelphia, Houston, and San Francisco. This image was posted on August 22, 2022. #japonisme #japan #design #1900s #storeinterior