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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.

📸 3/3: 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.

📸: poster: Air France, Airbus A340; early 1990s Gift of Air France 2005.119.005 . photograph: Lufthansa, Airbus A340-200; c. 1995 Gift of Hans and Margret Steuck 2011.046.032 . 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.

Pan American Airways began service in Central America with the Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor, a robust, three-engine, twelve-passenger airliner affectionately known as the “Tin Goose.” #PAAinCA #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.

Pan American Airways pioneered commercial airline service to Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when air travel was first developing into a viable form of transportation. #PAAinCA #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 01, 2021.

Pan American Airways was awarded the overseas airmail route from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, with a deadline to start by October 19, 1927. #Onthisday in 1927, Cy Caldwell took off for Havana from Key West in a Fairchild FC-2, named La Niña, with 7 bags of mail. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 19, 2021.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 incorporated many design features of the DC-10 such as the trijet configuration, but also differed as it featured a stretched fuselage, increased wingspan, a redesigned wing trailing edge, and a glass cockpit. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on October 20, 2021.

#OnThisDay in 1974, the Aérospatiale/British Aircraft Corporation Concorde supersonic transport (SST) landed at @flySFO. This brief visit was part of a promotional tour to airports around the world. The Concorde was in service from 1976 to 2003. Did you ever fly on a #Concorde? This tweet was posted on October 21, 2021.

#StonewareStories: Folk Pottery of Edgefield, South Carolina is on display pre-security in the International Terminal Main Hall, near the security checkpoint for the A gates and online at: https://t.co/L3foSINclL This tweet was posted on October 22, 2021.

Intrigued by topology—the study of geometric properties that do not change when you stretch a shape— Bay Area physicist Cliff Stoll began making Klein bottles. #MathAtSFO #Mathematics #Kleinbottle This tweet was posted on October 25, 2021.

Seating capacities on the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 varied from 285 in a three-class arrangement to 410 in an all-economy configuration. The medium- to long-range widebody aircraft had a range 7,000 to 10,000 miles and had a cruising speed of 588 mph. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on October 20, 2021.

Shortly after arriving in Edgefield, Thomas Chandler mastered the use of local kaolin clay and alkaline glazes, creating beautiful pots that exhibited a celadon-like gloss surface similar to those produced in China and Korea. #StonewareStories This tweet was posted on October 22, 2021.

Thomas Chandler likely incorporated a large quantity of silica & lime in his glaze formula to create these wares. Chandler’s pale green glaze resulted from small amounts of iron oxide in the glaze combined with the pots being fired in a kiln deprived of oxygen. #StonewareStories This tweet was posted on October 22, 2021.

📸 1/2: postcard: Finnair, McDonnell Douglas MD-11; 1990s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.0700 postcard: World Airways, McDonnell Douglas MD-11; c. 2000 Gift of Mireille Boyd 2004.052.022 a This tweet was posted on October 20, 2021.

Creating a Klein bottle is impossible in our universe—you need four spatial dimensions! In our 3-D universe, every Klein bottle must have a self-intersection, where tubing crosses through a wall. #MathAtSFO #Mathematics #Kleinbottle This tweet was posted on October 25, 2021.

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist, Madam C. J. Walker (1867–1919) created a haircare empire, including a product line, training schools, and salons, which made her one of the wealthiest African Americans of her time. #madamcjwalker This tweet was posted on October 12, 2021.

Give a strip of paper a half-twist and tape the ends together— you get a Möbius loop, a one-sided shape with one edge. Make two Möbius loops and glue their edges together—you should get a Klein bottle. #MathAtSFO #Mathematics #Kleinbottle This tweet was posted on October 25, 2021.

Happy Birthday, Ralph Lauren! Born #onthisday in New York City in 1939, the iconic American fashion designer began his career as a glove salesman for Brooks Brothers. #RalphLauren This tweet was posted on October 14, 2021.

Marvin Lipofsky was a founding member of the American studio glass movement. For close to five decades, he worked in glass factories and workshops all over the world, earning him the title of the “roving ambassador of glass.” #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on October 15, 2021.

On the streets during the fall [in L’viv], they would rake up, sweep up all the leaves. And it's a beautiful fall…So, I used the colors that they had in the fall. I am trying to give you a feeling for the experience that I had." — Marvin Lipofsky 2009 This tweet was posted on October 15, 2021.

The conservative traditionalism of the double-breasted navy blue wool jacket and a longer skirt harkens back to the military and more masculine suits of the 1930s. Ruby cuff ranks and stars on the sleeve mix with the Ivy League look of the oxford shirt, collar bar, and rep tie. This tweet was posted on October 14, 2021.

This 1978 TWA (Trans World Airlines) uniform by American fashion icon Ralph Lauren, signaled a turn toward nostalgic romanticism in airline uniform design. #RalphLauren This tweet was posted on October 14, 2021.

📸1/2: article: Delta Air Lines, Airbus A320-200; 2019 Gift of Charlie Volkman 2019.033.003 a b poster: Airbus A320, cockpit simulation; 1980s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2010.105.570 This tweet was posted on October 13, 2021.

📸1/2: uniform standards guide: TWA (Trans World Airlines), flight service personnel; 1982 Gift of Shirley A. Rohe 2020.044.088 This tweet was posted on October 14, 2021.

Either a harlequin-patterned body blouse with collar, or a polka dot-patterned body blouse nicknamed the “Wonder Bread” with an attached pussycat bow, could be paired with any combination. #FlightPatterns This tweet was posted on October 05, 2021.

SFO has witnessed great strides in aviation. For close to a century, the airport reinvented itself numerous times. Looking out over the busy runways and terminals today, one can only imagine the lonely stretch of pastureland that predated SFO. #MillsFieldSFO #SFOHistory #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 18, 2021.

The light, elegant aesthetic of these sculptures shows the power of mathematical ideas: with only a minimal amount of material, the unique character of a polyhedron comes to light. #MathAtSFO This tweet was posted on October 04, 2021.