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By the end of the 1950s, the airline had rapidly expanded into 35 cities. In 1966, Ozark entered the jet age and purchased several Douglas DC-9 aircraft, and added destinations all over the country. #DefunctThursday #Ozark #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 07, 2022.
By the late 1930s, with the introduction of the Douglas DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) and DC-3 Mainliners, United Air Lines provided standardized beverage service. This tweet was posted on February 15, 2018.
By the mid-1960s, PSA had grown substantially and was flying record numbers of passengers. It added the turbojet Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 to its fleet and expanded its routes to include Sacramento, San Jose, and Ontario. #DefunctThursday #PacificSouthwestAirlines This tweet was posted on October 07, 2022.
Did you ever fly on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10? #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 05, 2016.
Did you know that in Skylounge configuration, United Air Lines’ Douglas DC-3 Mailiners had seats that were able to rotate? This illustration from the late 1930s shows the interior of a United Air Lines Douglas DC-3 with passengers socializing and playing games. #52Objects This tweet was posted on June 20, 2023.
Douglas developed the DC-8 jetliner during the mid-1950s as a competitive design to Boeing’s 707 jetliner. Built in Douglas’ new Long Beach, California, plant, the first aircraft was rolled out and flown in 1958. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on July 07, 2021.
During the early 1960s, Swissair introduced Douglas DC-8 and Convair 990 jetliners, which provided nonstop transatlantic service to Europe in as little as six-and-one-half hours. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on November 17, 2022.
Eastern Air Lines was a major operator of the Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 and provided maintenance crews with manuals that included data on the airframe, lubrication, brakes, the electrical system, instruments, engines, the oil system, landing gear, and fuel systems. #BytheBook This tweet was posted on April 11, 2019.
Entering the jet age, the company purchased Douglas DC-8s, Boeing 720s, and Boeing 707-320s. After merging with Republic Airlines in 1986, the company dropped Orient from their branding. #DefunctThursday #NorthwestOrient This tweet was posted on June 30, 2022.
Ever wonder what aircraft maintenance looked like in the late 1930s? Here, mechanics are working on the engines of a Douglas DC-3 #Mainliner during the aircraft’s routine visit to @United’s Cheyenne, Wyoming, maintenance base. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on April 13, 2020.
Fear not, gentlemen - there is jewelry for you, too! Tyrone Power and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., wore… https://t.co/iaTStx3QEg This tweet was posted on March 09, 2015.
Featuring a TAT plane, a Douglas DC-3, and a trijet, this 1970s scarf illustrated TWA's history. #avgeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on April 17, 2017.
Finishing up the installation of 'The Douglas DC-3: Legacy of an Airline Legend' at the #Aviation Museum. http://t.co/oyszV9ZRZV This tweet was posted on May 02, 2013.
Flights from St. Louis to Chicago, Tulsa, and Memphis were on Douglas DC-3s acquired from Parks Air Lines. Instead of repainting the DC-3s, Ozark took off the P and S from the aircraft and painted on OZ to the beginning. #DefunctThursday #Ozark #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 07, 2022.
Have you seen the cockpit of a Douglas DC-3? This 1937 @Life article describes the 145 flight instruments on a DC-3. This tweet was posted on March 18, 2016.
In 1934, Douglas Aircraft employee Victor Pastushin designed chromed-metal Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) Douglas DC-2 ashtrays. #StreamlinesAesthetics This tweet was posted on July 03, 2019.
In 1935, in response to a request for a large-capacity, long-range airliner from #United Air Lines, Douglas began developing the DC-4. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on November 29, 2017.
In 1944, National was awarded a New York-Miami route; flights began the following year. Flight times on the route were shortened in 1946 when the Douglas DC-4 was introduced, allowing non-stop flights and increasing both revenue and prestige.#DefunctThursday #NationalAirlines This tweet was posted on June 09, 2022.
In 1946, CAT hired eighty-seven men and women. Setting up headquarters at Shanghai’s Hungjao airfield, five surplus Douglas C-47s and fourteen Curtiss C-46s were purchased, with three more for spare parts. #CAT #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on April 28, 2022.
In 1947 Pan American World Airways added Sleeperette passenger seats to its Douglas DC-4 airliners. Initially used exclusively on transpacific flights, Sleeperettes featured scientifically engineered comfort for long haul flights #PanAm #PaxEx #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on January 15, 2021.
In 1948, BCPA received the new, long-range, pressurized Douglas DC-6 airliner. For the long, forty-hour, multi-stop Southern Cross route, each aircraft was comfortably equipped with reclining seats, sleeping berths, and a lounge in the aft. #FlyingSouthernCross #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 16, 2023.
In 1949, Kenny Friedkin, a flight trainer and test pilot, formed Pacific Southwest Airlines or PSA. The airline began weekly round-trip flights between San Diego and Oakland with a single leased Douglas DC-3. #DefunctThursday #PacificSouthwestAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 07, 2022.
In 1957, Braniff International Airways launched DC-7C service to South America that it dubbed “El Dorado” service. Sales of the DC-7 rapidly declined by the end of the decade, with the arrival of long-range jets such as the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on June 02, 2021.
In 1959, United Air Lines and Delta Airlines introduced the Douglas DC-8. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 18, 2018.
In 1959, United Air Lines and Delta Airlines introduced the Douglas DC-8. The DC-8-63 series, an updated, stretched, long-range variant of the DC-8 promoted as the "Super 63", was introduced nearly a decade later. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on February 22, 2019.
In 1959, the airline launched Douglas DC-8 jet service on its transcontinental routes, and shortly thereafter, introduced the Silhouette “Debonair” pattern for its first-class inflight meal services. #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 05, 2022.
In 1967, Air California began passenger service by operating turbojet Lockheed L-188 Electras between Orange County and San Francisco. During 1968, the airline expanded its aircraft fleet to include Boeing 737s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and added routes to Oakland and San Jose. This tweet was posted on January 20, 2022.
In 2013, we dedicated an exhibition to the Douglas DC-3, an important plane in aviation history. #ThrowbackThursday This tweet was posted on October 22, 2015.
In an effort to compete with TWA (Trans World Airlines) on transatlantic routes to Europe, Pan American World Airways ordered the extended-range DC-7C (dubbed the "Seven Seas") from Douglas Aircraft. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on February 12, 2018.
In the 1970s, George S. Gordon negotiated with the world-renowned artist #AlexanderCalder to paint an entire Douglas DC-8-62 for #Braniff, transforming it into a flying work of art named Flying Colors of South America. #AdvertisingBraniff This tweet was posted on June 12, 2018.
In the competition to create the first American produced jet, Douglas developed the DC-8 in the late 1950s. #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 04, 2016.
In the late 1930s, United Air Lines asked Douglas Aircraft to develop a large-capacity, long-range, pressurized, four-engine airliner. The DC-4E featured a tripletail and a nose wheel, then unique to large passenger aircraft, and first flew in 1938. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.
In the late 1940s, land-based aircraft, like the Douglas DC-4, the DC-6, and the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, made regularly operated commercial air routes between the United States & Australia a reality for airmail, cargo, and passengers alike. #AirmailDownUnder #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 30, 2022.
In the mid-1970s, the advertising firm of Dillon, Gordon, Hawkey & Shortt took over #Braniff International's brand image. Gordon negotiated with artist Alexander Calder to paint an entire Douglas DC-8-62. #AdvertisingBraniff This tweet was posted on January 19, 2018.
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.
Introduced in 1936, the same year as the Douglas DC-3, this United Air Lines sage green wool stewardess uniform was worn with a yellow linen blouse and included a pillbox hat complemented with a green and yellow flat bow. #AirlinerChairs #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 15, 2023.