#OnThisDay in 1927, the first scheduled Pan American Airways mail service departed from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba. #PanAm#avgeekThis tweet was posted on October 28, 2017.
#OnThisDay in 2000, #JetBlue's inaugural flight took off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. #HBDThis tweet was posted on February 11, 2017.
#Onthisday the first flight of #PanAm's #Sikorsky S-40 “American Clipper” departed from Dinner Key, Florida, destined for Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone. It was the first to carry the famous "Clipper" name, which was subsequently registered as a trademark by Pan American. #avgeekThis tweet was posted on November 19, 2019.
During the 1920s and early 1930s, making a profit in commercial aviation was very difficult without a lucrative airmail route contract.
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Happy Birthday to Jackie Cochran, born #onthisday in 1906 in Muscogee, Florida. After taking her first flying lessons in 1932, she obtained her pilot's license in just three weeks. In 1938, she won the Bendix Trophy, a race from LA to Cleveland. #avgeek#MuseumFromHomeThis tweet was posted on May 11, 2020.
Happy Thanksgiving! This was the menu for the Pan American Airways flight on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 23, 1939, aboard Sikorsky S-42 Clipper N. C. 15373, from Barranquilla, Colombia to Miami, Florida. What is on your #Thanksgiving menu today? This tweet was posted on November 25, 2021.
He soon dropped the Hercules name in favor of Curtiss and in January 1907, he entered a modified racing motorcycle fitted with the new V-8 aircraft engine at the Winter Speed Carnival in Ormond Beach, Florida. #EarlyAmericanMotorcyclesThis tweet was posted on March 19, 2021.
Nine days after their first ever service, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled mail service departed from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, #onthisday in 1927. The aircraft, was a Fokker F-VIIa/3m. #avgeek#PanAm#MuseumFromHomeThis tweet was posted on October 28, 2020.
Nine days after their first ever service, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled mail service departed from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, #onthisday in 1927.
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