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Today is Pan American Aviation Day, a celebration for the first flight of the Wright Flyer, which took place on December 17, 1903. This image was posted on December 17, 2020. #avgeek #museumfromhome #aviationhistory #panamericanaviationday
#Onthisday in 2009, the Boeing 787 took off on its maiden flight. This image was posted on December 15, 2020.
On November 22, 1935, the inaugural Pan American Airways Clipper transpacific airmail service departed from California to Manila, the Philippines, carrying 110,865 letters. This image was posted on November 23, 2020. #chinaclipper #panam #avgeek #museumfromhome
In the early days of aviation, barnstorming was a popular entertainment event. This image was posted on November 18, 2020. #womeninaviation #avgeek #museumfromhome
Standing thirty-five feet tall, “Ether” is the first permanent artwork in the United States by Japanese artist #KoheiNawa. This image was posted on November 10, 2020. #publicart #museumfromhome
Nine days after their first ever service, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled mail service departed from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, #onthisday in 1927. This image was posted on October 28, 2020. #avgeek #paa #panam #museumfromhome
The automobile & airplane industries, & Art Deco styles influenced 1930s-40s designers creating radios from #plastic: http://t.co/nJNXlthV0L This tweet was posted on August 12, 2013.
Why was the #DC3's R-1830 one of the most popular airplane engines ever? Power: 14 cylinders & up to 1300 hp. http://t.co/a428v2MzqN #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 02, 2013.
<3 #art RT @amedinarangel: When you spend way too much time in airports and airplanes. #moleskine (at SFO Terminal 2) http://t.co/iVRuAcrkrc This tweet was posted on May 08, 2013.
RT @CAHomeandDesign: Tour this SF apartment that is ANYTHING but expected. We're talking Pan Am airplane doors http://t.co/boHND0dF <--WHOA. This tweet was posted on December 20, 2012.
Take a peek inside 30 model airplanes in Interiors Revealed, one of six exhibits at the Aviation Museum! http://t.co/ERkdrJ4z This tweet was posted on December 27, 2012.
<3 #AviationMuseumProblems <3 MT @SDASM: The problem w/paper airplane stations in the How Things Fly exhibit is... http://t.co/wkkG6oIw This tweet was posted on October 24, 2012.
The largest airplane when built in 1929, the Do X took 240,000 hours to complete! See a model at our #Aviation Museum: http://t.co/1vHNDITv This tweet was posted on August 23, 2012.
Model Airplane Spa: tending to our permanent collection. http://t.co/IptkMw3F This tweet was posted on July 19, 2012.
Cool: airplane version of Dutch doors. Super cool: this airplane is a BOAT! Where there's water, there's a runway! http://t.co/Xr4kTdTu This tweet was posted on June 26, 2012.
Remember when airplane tix weren't scanned from your phone? Reminder: 1975 Quantas ticket jacket: http://t.co/yGIsyR5u #aviation This tweet was posted on June 22, 2012.
What did it take to make an airplane in 1926? Take a look at Lockheed's Hollywood factory: http://t.co/0aXzuAEw #avgeeks This tweet was posted on May 01, 2012.
Airplane lavatory line not moving? Maybe artist Nina Katchadourian is at work: http://t.co/QNbsowkT (via @HuffPostArts) Happy Friday! This tweet was posted on April 13, 2012.
RT @airandspace: Meet Monoplane. He likes flying in airplanes, cigars, and probably long walks on the beach. He's pictured here in 1912 wit… This tweet was posted on August 26, 2020.
RT @timjue: Boeing to end production of the iconic 747 jumbo jet: Bloomberg News. No comment yet from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. https://… This tweet was posted on July 02, 2020.
In “Mondrian Meets The Beatles” by Japanese-German American #KotaEzawa, #TheBeatles are shown exiting an airplane on their first US tour in 1964. This work attempts to free the photograph of its documentary status while adding a narrative to a set of static color fields. #apahm This tweet was posted on May 29, 2020.
This week on #SFOMat40: In 2001, we presented "#Origami: The Art of Paper Folding" featuring birds, fish, airplanes, rockets, and fantasy creatures made by students in after-school programs at Everett Middle School and Marshall Elementary School in SF. #TBTSFOM #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on March 19, 2020.
The #Blériot XI monoplane took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1909. On July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot flew the aircraft over the English Channel from Calais, France, to Dover, England completing the first successful crossing of the Channel in an airplane. #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 23, 2020.
RT @airandspace: A successful powered airplane and the aerial age were #IdeasThatDefy imagination before the Wright brothers' first flight… This tweet was posted on December 17, 2019.
The design of “Four Sculptural Light Reflectors” consists of four 180-foot by 30-foot sculptures, inspired by the construction of the Wright brothers’ first airplane, also recalls dirigibles, or boats. #JamesCarpenter This tweet was posted on November 15, 2019.
In 1915, San Francisco presented a world’s fair of unprecedented grandeur—the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. One of the most exciting new technologies at the fair was the airplane, and daily flying demonstrations thrilled countless spectators. #FlyingPPIE This tweet was posted on October 09, 2019.
RT @airandspace: This #WomensEqualityDay, let's celebrate Bessie Coleman. In a time before women were supposed to fly airplanes, before Am… This tweet was posted on August 26, 2019.
Happy #NationalBookLoverDay! Did you know the Aviation Museum and Library at SFO holds more than 8,000 books and 600 periodical titles? The primary focus is on commercial aviation, airport development, airline history, and airplane manufacturing. https://t.co/FdXMSBSo3G This tweet was posted on August 09, 2019.
#Onthisday in 1961, the first regularly screened movie on a scheduled commercial jet flight was shown on a TWA Boeing 707. Other airlines, such as Pan Am, followed suit soon after. What was the last movie you watched on an airplane? This tweet was posted on July 19, 2019.
Early color photographs of #SFO are rare, so we’re excited to share a recent gift to our collection. This photo from 1947 shows a United Air Lines aircraft in front of the Airport’s 1937 terminal building along with 3 of the original airplane hangars built in 1927/8. #TBT #avgeek This tweet was posted on June 13, 2019.
The seat shown here was designed in 1940 by the Warren McArthur Corporation specifically for the Douglas DC-3 and C-47. It was the first seat designed by the company for passenger use in an airplane and adjustable to five positions. #AviationAluminum #avgeek This tweet was posted on May 08, 2019.
Did you know our collections staff catalog each object by hand? We recently received a donation of 1,000 photographs of airplanes. Cataloging includes affixing an accession number to each object, creating an object record in our database, and scanning each photo. #museummonday This tweet was posted on May 13, 2019.
Sometimes, it really is all fun and games at the museum! The nearly 300 model airplanes displayed in “Aviation Evolutions” need to go back into storage and our collections team is playing a game of museum Tetris to find the most efficient way to pack them. #behindthescenes This tweet was posted on April 08, 2019.
The use of aluminum in airplane airframes was pioneered by Jugo Junkers, who in 1920 introduced the F 13, the world’s first all-metal airliner made of the aluminum alloy “Duralumin,” which was corrugated throughout the airframe for added strength. #AviationAluminum This tweet was posted on April 03, 2019.
During the 1930s, when most Americans struggled to make a living, the modern airplane became an inspiring symbol of hope. To stimulate consumerism, a broad array of products were designed and marketed in homage to the airplane. https://t.co/Xjin8CjgwZ #StreamlinesAesthetics This tweet was posted on March 21, 2019.
“Early morning and looking out of the airplane window, watching as the mist rises from the peaks and valleys below. Sunlight filters through the moisture, creating discrete layers of mountains—shifting with the movement of the sun, the atmosphere.” #VanessaMarsh This tweet was posted on March 24, 2019.