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DC #avgeeks, check out @airandspace's new exhibit, Hawaii By Air: http://t.co/1YRV3bXAqT We LOVE that Continental poster! (via @boingboing) This tweet was posted on July 31, 2014.
RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1903, the 1903 Wright Flyer made a brief 3.5-second first flight attempt. The Flyer's performance inspired Wilbur… This tweet was posted on December 14, 2021.
RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1908, the Wright brothers began flight trials on an aircraft built for the US Army Signal Corps. In 1909, Wright M… This tweet was posted on September 03, 2020.
RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1918, Katherine Johnson was born. As a mathematician who calculated trajectories for some of NASA’s most important… This tweet was posted on August 26, 2021.
RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1927: Charles Lindbergh completed his goodwill tour of 48 U.S. states: https://t.co/g8dTJAxR40 https://t.co/LGqvy1… This tweet was posted on October 23, 2017.
RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1929, Blanche Noyes flew solo for the first time. She would earn her pilot's license that July, becoming the first… This tweet was posted on February 16, 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.
RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1976, the supersonic Concorde entered commercial service. Two flights took off at the same time, one operated by A… This tweet was posted on January 21, 2022.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH 1909, the first powered flight in Canada was made by John McCurdy in "Silver Dart." Built by Alexander Graham Bell's… This tweet was posted on February 23, 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.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH 1934, Laura Ingalls became the first US woman to fly over the Andes solo. Ingalls was a highly successful pilot, and… This tweet was posted on March 26, 2019.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH 1935, Amelia Earhart was greeted with fans and flowers as she arrived in Oakland, CA, in her Lockheed Vega 5C after… This tweet was posted on January 12, 2021.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH 1973, the Concorde 201, the first production type of the supersonic transport, made its maiden flight. The Concorde… This tweet was posted on December 06, 2021.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH in 1783: The first human beings to take to the air in free flight did so aboard a Montgolfier balloon from the garde… This tweet was posted on November 22, 2021.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH in 1921: Airmail pilots, including Jack Knight, set out to prove that mail could be flown coast to coast in record t… This tweet was posted on February 23, 2022.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH in 1927: Charles Lindbergh took the pilot seat of the Spirit of St. Louis and flew the history-making aircraft for t… This tweet was posted on April 28, 2022.
RT @airandspace: #TDIH in 1932, Amelia Earhart—flying in her iconic red Lockheed Vega—departed on the first solo nonstop flight by a woman… This tweet was posted on August 25, 2021.
RT @airandspace: .@Gedsudski Tom Crouch, Senior Curator in Aeronautics rec's the 1903 Wright Flyer http://t.co/NciwJBBj60 #AskACurator http… This tweet was posted on September 16, 2015.
RT @airandspace: 110 years ago today, Blanche Stuart Scott became the first American woman to take a solo hop into the air. The 40-foot hop… This tweet was posted on September 02, 2020.
RT @airandspace: 110 years ago today, Harriet Quimby—the first American woman to earn a pilot's license—became the first woman to fly solo… This tweet was posted on April 18, 2022.
RT @airandspace: 110 years ago today, Helene Dutrieu, also known as the "girl hawk" of aviation, became the first Belgian woman to receive… This tweet was posted on November 25, 2020.
RT @airandspace: 110 years ago today, Matilde Moisant flew to a height of 1,200 feet in her Blériot XI type monoplane at Nassau Boulevard A… This tweet was posted on September 24, 2021.
RT @airandspace: 125 Yrs Ago Today: Bessie Coleman, the first African American to receive a pilot's license, was born: https://t.co/4vGnzzZ… This tweet was posted on January 26, 2017.
RT @airandspace: 17-year-old aviator Elinor Smith established a women's endurance record in late January 1929 with a 13-hour 16-minute flig… This tweet was posted on January 31, 2022.
RT @airandspace: 35 year ago today, the Airbus A320 made its first flight. Featuring a glass cockpit with a unique side-stick controller to… This tweet was posted on February 22, 2022.
RT @airandspace: 55 years ago today, Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock departed in Cessna 180 "Spirit of Columbus" on a flight that would make her th… This tweet was posted on March 20, 2019.
RT @airandspace: 60 Years Ago Today: First flight of a production version of the Boeing 707. Prototype 367-80 "Dash" in our collection: htt… This tweet was posted on December 20, 2017.
RT @airandspace: 60 years ago today, Jacqueline Cochran set a new speed record for women, flying the Museum's Northrop T-38 Talon. Learn mo… This tweet was posted on August 25, 2021.
RT @airandspace: 90 Years Ago Today: City of Medford presented this silver trophy to Amelia Earhart in recognition of her trans-Atlantic fl… This tweet was posted on July 10, 2018.
RT @airandspace: 95 Yrs Ago Today: 1st transcontinental airmail flight takes off from New York to San Francisco. This tweet was posted on July 29, 2015.
RT @airandspace: 95 years ago today, Charles Lindbergh flew from San Diego to New York in 21 hours and 40 minutes. The feat set a new trans… This tweet was posted on May 12, 2022.
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.
RT @airandspace: Aerospace Power Couple: Willa Brown was the first African American woman to earn both a pilot's license and a commercial l… This tweet was posted on February 14, 2020.
RT @airandspace: After silent film actress Lee Ya-Ching earned her pilot's license in the 1930s, she returned to China to promote civil avi… This tweet was posted on March 10, 2020.
RT @airandspace: Alverna Babbs was the first American pilot with disabilities to earn a pilot’s license. Babbs lost both legs as a child an… This tweet was posted on July 20, 2021.
RT @airandspace: Aviation was booming in Wichita, Kansas, in the early 1920s and Francis Dawson Bowhan (of Osage heritage) was at the heart… This tweet was posted on November 30, 2020.