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Colorful hand-made #TWA cabin welcome signs not only identified the crew and communicated other essential information to passengers as they came onboard, but they conveyed something far more memorable: a sense of hospitality, character, and trust. #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on March 30, 2021.
Coming in 2020, we will be presenting a photo exhibition on Pan American Airways in South America. Have you ever been to South America? #avgeek #PanAm #TravelTuesday
This tweet was posted on October 15, 2019.
Construction of a new terminal at San Francisco Airport began in 1951. Designed in the International Style, the seven-story building employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. #SFOHistory #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 23, 2022.
Construction of the North Terminal (now Terminal 3) began #onthisday in 1971 with a groundbreaking ceremony that was attended by various politicians and flight attendants of various airlines. #SFOHistory #avgeek
This tweet was posted on April 22, 2018.
Construction of the North Terminal (now Terminal 3) began #onthisday in 1971. #SFOHistory #avgeek #aviationhistory
This tweet was posted on April 22, 2017.
Continental Airlines began as Varney Speed Lines in 1934. It originally used symbols and slogans to promote its claim to be the “Fastest Airline In The World.” #DefunctThursday #avgeek #aviationhistory #ContinentalAirlines
This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
Control tower technology had changed a lot over the past seventy years... http://t.co/OCqIqlO6w0 #avgeek #throwbackthursday
This tweet was posted on August 14, 2014.
Created by Frank Smith, chief designer at Evan-Picone, the new uniform was created to "enhance the Pan Am image" #FashionInFlight #avgeek
This tweet was posted on August 09, 2017.
Crews used to circulate hand-written reports to passengers, alerting them to details like altitude & scenery: http://t.co/QURxhM0Jtq #avgeek
This tweet was posted on September 25, 2014.
Crookston dreamed of flying as a child. She served with the Civil Air Patrol as a survey pilot and with the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor, but she was excluded from work as an airline pilot due to her gender. #SFOHistory #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Crossing the Atlantic by Zeppelin doesn't seem likely but a set, 3- to 5-day route was operated in the 1930s: http://t.co/KIP9RIL9Bt #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 02, 2013.
Cuban-born designer Adolfo Sardiña (b. 1933) established his own New York salon in 1963. His uniform program for Pan American’s 6,800 flight attendants in 1980 has #Adolfo’s “romantic look” of simple, elegant design. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on June 19, 2019.
Czech Airlines celebrated the first jetliner service between Prague & Moscow with a colorful luggage label: http://t.co/TsHRVPH0uo #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 27, 2015.
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.
Daylight savings time just ended in the United States, signaling the beginning of winter. Where has your favorite winter getaway been? #TravelTuesday #avgeek
This tweet was posted on November 06, 2018.
Dedicated roadways streamlined traffic to the 1954 terminal, and passenger entryways on both levels were fitted with hands-free, automatic doors—an exciting new invention at the time. Passenger operations exceeded 2.5 million for the first year. #SFOHistory #SFO #AvGeek #SFO1954
This tweet was posted on October 04, 2022.
Deemed too complicated and expensive to operate, its design was changed to a smaller, unpressurized airliner with a single tail, which became the DC-4. #WingWednesday #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.
Delivered on January 31, 1949, the first flight of Pan American Airway's Boeing 377 took off #onthisday in 1947. Advertisements promoted its exceedingly smooth ride, its large, upper deck, and the #Stratocruiser's unique and luxurious lower-deck lounge. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on July 08, 2019.
Delta's handy family tree features the evolution of airlines of years past: http://t.co/WLU7q6Oag9 #avgeek
This tweet was posted on July 01, 2014.
Delta’s inaugural flight from Dallas, Texas, to Jackson, Mississippi, via Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana, on a Travel Air S-6000-B airplane carried five passengers and one pilot. #Delta #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on June 17, 2022.
Designated "Star Stream" by TWA, the 707 proved to be a fast, reliable, intercontinental and transcontinental workhorse and was operated by the airline until the early 1980s. #AviationEvolutions #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 24, 2018.
Designed by Louis Blériot and Raymond Saulnier, the Blériot XI monoplane took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1909. In 1911, Earle Lewis Ovington carried the first U.S. airmail in a Blériot XI. #avgeek #BlériotXI
This tweet was posted on January 23, 2023.
Designed by Wellwood E. Beall, it distinguished itself by shear size, three vertical stabilizers in the tail, and cantilevered seawings that doubled as fuel tanks. #WingWednesday #avgeek #PanAm
This tweet was posted on March 17, 2021.
Designed in complete secrecy under Lockheed’s chief research engineer, the 049 Constellation developed into an extremely fast, highly advanced, &
revolutionary large-capacity airliner with a unique dolphin-shaped fuselage and distinctive tripletail. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA
This tweet was posted on December 01, 2022.
Despite expansion into new destinations the airline had crippling financial issues. It was acquired by Delta Air Lines in August 1972.
#DefunctThursday #NortheastAirlines #AvGeek #AviationHistory
This tweet was posted on June 23, 2022.
Despite its accolades, only 250 were ordered, well short of the projected 500. It was Lockheed’s first and only entry into the widebody airliner market. #wingwednesday #avgeek
This tweet was posted on August 25, 2021.
Despite the "spruce" nicknaming, the H-4 was actually constructed primarily of birch due to weight concerns and restrictions on the use of aluminum during WWII. Numerous delays prevented it from being completed before the end of the war. #WingWednesday #avgeek
This tweet was posted on May 05, 2021.
Developed by Henry Dreyfuss Associates, the interior of the #Lockheed 1049 Super #Constellation was divided into four sections to minimize the effect of the long-tube view when looking down the cabin. Did you ever fly on a Lockheed Constellation? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on September 05, 2018.
Developed by the Glenn L. Martin Company, the Martin 2-0-2 was intended to supersede the DC-3. Although early orders placed in 1945 were canceled due to production delays, the 2-0-2 was introduced into service by Northwest Airlines in October 1947. #WingWednesday #avgeek
This tweet was posted on April 28, 2021.
Did you ever fly on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on August 05, 2016.
Did you have a favorite toy that helped you develop into an #avgeek? We'd love to hear about it! http://t.co/ycUK4cniCj
This tweet was posted on November 06, 2013.
Did you know SFO Museum has the freestanding schedule board from San Francisco Airport’s 1937 passenger terminal? For years the board was large enough to post the arrival and departure times for all scheduled airlines serving San Francisco. #avgeek #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on September 19, 2022.
Did you know our collections website has a recently acquired objects button? From a Hello Kitty airsickness bag (really!) to a Hughes Airwest beach towel, keep up with what we’re collecting and browse through almost 2,000 recently acquired objects: https://t.co/kGhUpnPDvL
#AvGeek
This tweet was posted on June 15, 2022.
Did you know that Delta Airlines is named for the Mississippi Delta region where the company first operated? The name was suggested by Catherine FitzGerald, Delta Employee Number 6 and one of the first women to serve on an airline’s board of directors. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 15, 2019.
Did you know that SFO Museum is an actively collecting institution? Our collection focuses on the history of commercial air transport with a regional emphasis on the West Coast and the Pacific Rim, as well as the history of San Francisco International Airport. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 09, 2023.