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#Onthisday in 2017, Delta Air Lines’ last 747 took its final scheduled international flight from Seoul, South Korea, to Detroit. Did you ever fly on a #Delta Boeing 747? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on December 18, 2020.
Pacific Air Transport (PAT) was founded in 1926. PAT flew Ryan M-1 mail planes with passengers often packed in with mail sacks. PAT was acquired by Boeing Air Transport in 1928 and both companies would become part of United Air Lines in the 1930s. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on December 22, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1958, the first scheduled Pan American World Airways jet service took off from Idlewild, New York. Flying to Paris, Pan Am carried 111 passengers across the Atlantic. Have you ever flown on a Boeing 707? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on October 26, 2020.
Introduced by Pan American World Airways in 1970, the Boeing 747-100 was the first of a new breed of jetliner, the “wide-body,” which ultimately revolutionized the airline industry. The new wide-body was twice the size of the Boeing 707 shown here. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on September 30, 2020.
Happy Birthday, United Airlines!
This image was posted on April 06, 2022.
#avgeek #aviationhistory #unitedairlines
Bonnie Tiburzi became the first woman to fly for a major commercial carrier when she was hired by American Airlines in 1973.
This image was posted on March 23, 2022.
#womeninaviation #avgeek #womenshistorymonth #aviationhistory
#Onthisday in 1967, Air Southwest Company was founded by Herb Kelleher and in 1971, its name was changed to Southwest Airlines Company.
This image was posted on March 15, 2022.
#avgeek #southwest #aviationhistory #otd
The first flight of the Boeing 247 took off #onthisday in 1933.
This image was posted on February 08, 2022.
#avgeek #boeing #united
#Onthisday in 1949, Pan American World Airways received their first delivery of a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser.
This image was posted on January 31, 2022.
#avgeek #paa #panam #stratocruiser #boeing #boeing377
Ansett Airways was founded in 1935 by Sir Reginald Myles "Reg" Ansett in Australia.
This image was posted on January 27, 2022.
#australia #defunctthursday #avgeek #aviationhistory
#OnThisDay in 1959, an American Airlines Boeing 707 took off from Los Angeles to New York.
This image was posted on January 25, 2022.
#avgeek #americanairlines #boeing #otd #aviationhistory
Air California was formed in 1965 by a group of Orange County businessmen who recognized a great need to serve the rapidly expanding business communities and population centers of the region with intrastate air service from their local Orange County Airport (later renamed John Wayne Airport).
This image was posted on January 20, 2022.
#defunctthursday #avgeek #aircal #aircalifornia
In 1972, Emilio Pucci (1914–92) designed the “727 Braniff Place Blue Pant Collection” to commemorate the company’s growing fleet of Boeing 727 trijet airliners.
This image was posted on January 18, 2022.
#flightpatterns #braniff #emiliopucci #pucci #uniform #flightattendant #avgeek
#Onthisday in 1953, American Airlines introduced the DC-7 as its first non-stop, transcontinental airliner.
This image was posted on November 29, 2021.
#avgeek #airplane #dc7
The A350 is Airbus’ most recent long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner.
This image was posted on November 24, 2021.
#wingwednesday #a350 #airbus #avgeek
e Boeing 787 is the latest wide-body jet airliner manufactured by Boeing.
This image was posted on November 17, 2021.
#wingwednesday #boeing787 #boeing #avgeek
Boeing adopted the two-engine, widebody concept with its 777 airliner, which was introduced on June 7, 1995, with United Airlines.
This image was posted on November 03, 2021.
#wingwednesday #boeing #777 #boeing777 #avgeek #airplane
Taking off from Idlewild Airport in New York #onthisday in 1958, Pan American World Airways became the first airline to inaugurate scheduled transatlantic commercial jet service on a Boeing 707.
This image was posted on October 26, 2021.
#boeing707 #boeing #jetage #avgeek
#OnThisDay in 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled out of Boeing's massive facility in Everett, Washington.
This image was posted on September 30, 2021.
#avgeek #boeing #widebody #jetage #boeing747
Following the success of its best-selling, narrow-body 727 trijet, Boeing began developing a twin engine aircraft as its successor, the 757.
This image was posted on September 29, 2021.
#wingwendesday #boeing #airplane #757
The 767 was the first two-engine widebody airliner produced by Boeing.
This image was posted on September 22, 2021.
#wingwednesday #boeing767 #avgeek #boeing
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was a wide-body, long-range tri-jet airliner introduced in 1972.
This image was posted on August 25, 2021.
#wingwednesday #avgeek #l1011 #lockheed #tristar
The first wide-body jumbo-jet to be introduced, the Boeing 747 revolutionized long-distance, transoceanic commercial aviation and set the standard for all other wide-body designs that followed.
This image was posted on August 18, 2021.
#wingwednesday #avgeek #boeing #boeing747 #cathaypacific #panam
The Boeing 737 was designed to be a short-to-mid-range regional jetliner and incorporated many of the assemblies and components used in the Boeing 727.
This image was posted on August 04, 2021.
#wingwednesday #boeing #lufthansa #boeing737
The DC-9 was designed by Douglas as a mid-range jetliner with a smaller capacity than the Boeing 727 and with the ability to serve the short runways of small regional airports.
This image was posted on July 28, 2021.
#wingwednesday #hughesairwest #douglasaircraft #dc9 #avgeek #airplane
The Boeing 727 was a medium range, intermediate-capacity jetliner that could serve regional airports with short runways.
This image was posted on July 21, 2021.
#wingwednesday #braniff #boeing #boeing727
In 1960, Delta Airlines proudly introduced the 615 miles-per-hour Convair 880, produced by the Convair Division of General Dynamics, of San Diego, California.
This image was posted on July 14, 2021.
#wingwednesday #convair880 #deltaairlines #convair
Douglas developed the DC-8 jetliner during the mid-1950s as a competitive design to Boeing’s 707 jetliner.
This image was posted on July 07, 2021.
Introduced in 1952, the de Havilland D.H. 106 Comet was the first commercial passenger jetliner to enter service, years before the introduction of other jetliners.
This image was posted on June 16, 2021.
#wingwednesday #avgeek #airplane #dehavilland #dehavillandcomet #jet
The L-1649 Starliner, the final variant in Lockheed’s Constellation-based design series, embodied the zenith in large-capacity, piston-engine airliner development, rivaled only by the Douglas DC-7C, with which it was designed to compete.
This image was posted on June 09, 2021.
#wingwednesday #airplane #avgeek #aviationhistory #lockheed #l1649 #lockheedconstellation #twa
The DC-7 was Douglas Aircraft’s last design evolution of the piston-powered, four-engine, low-wing airliner layout that began with the DC-4.
This image was posted on June 02, 2021.
#wingwednesday #avgeek #airplane #dc7
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was considered the most luxurious airliner aloft when introduced by Pan American World Airways in 1949.
This image was posted on May 12, 2021.
#wingwednesday #avgeek #airplane #boeing #boeing377
The Boeing 100F is an aircraft that is relevant to the SFO Museum collection.