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Opening soon in Terminal 2 is “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan.” Get a sneak peek on our website: https://t.co/h19OB3lHAM #Japonisme This tweet was posted on April 13, 2022.

Venezuelan-born multimedia artist Maria Constanza Ferreira explores the nature of light moving through a city as it reflects and refracts into an abstract kaleidoscope of colors. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/6CNWSQJ4IK This tweet was posted on April 14, 2022.

“I’ve always been attracted and fascinated by birds and their freedom through flight." #BobZoell Combining his lifelong passion for language and birds, the artist created a playful world of singing birds sitting on branches composed from letters and punctuation marks. This tweet was posted on April 13, 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.

Correction: the plane depicted in 2019.080.054 is a Boeing 80. This tweet was posted on April 07, 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.

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 April 07, 2022.

After the Allied victory in August 1945, the airline secured a system of eight primary routes throughout China all the while struggling against a backdrop of increasing civil war. #DefunctThursday #CNAC This tweet was posted on April 07, 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 April 07, 2022.

Happy birthday, Dame Vivienne Westwood! The fashion designer, born #onthisday in 1941, was a major influence in British punk fashion. She brought her unique style to @VirginAtlantic in 2014 with this uniform to match the airline’s maverick attitude. #VivienneWestwood #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 08, 2022.

📸 1/4: 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 April 07, 2022.

Fosshape is a non-woven material that’s soft and pliable until heat or steam is applied, which causes its form to fix while retaining its soft surface. #behindthescenes This tweet was posted on April 01, 2022.

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.