Motorcycling and aviation legend Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born #OnThisDay in 1878. Before turning to aviation, he designed a series of innovative and influential single- and double-cylinder engines for his pioneering motorcycles. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles
This tweet was posted on May 21, 2021.
NORAD or the North American Aerospace Defense Command started tracking #Santa’s movements #onthisday in 1955. Follow along this year @NORADSanta. What is a winter holiday tradition you and your loved ones follow? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 24, 2019.
Officially opened to the public #onthisday in 2000, the International Terminal at SFO was then the largest public works project in Northern California. Have you ever flown out of our International Terminal? #SFOHistory @flySFO
Photo by Alain McLaughlin.
This tweet was posted on December 10, 2019.
Onthisday in 1971, Southwest Airlines began intrastate operations in Texas. The “Love Bird” service out of Dallas Love Field offered 12 daily round-trip flights to Houston and 6 round-trip flights to San Antonio on Boeing 737s. Have you ever flown on @SouthwestAir? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on June 18, 2019.
Operating a Boeing 727, the last Pan American World Airways flight took off from Barbados to Miami, Florida, #onthisday in 1991. What are your favorite memories of Pan Am?
This tweet was posted on December 04, 2018.
Pan American Airways was awarded a lucrative airmail route contract from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, in 1927. Unforeseen circumstances led them to hire outside pilot Cy Caldwell and his Fairchild FC-2 inaugurating Pan Am's first service #onthisday in 1927. #PanAm #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on October 19, 2022.
Pan American Airways was awarded the overseas airmail route from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, with a deadline to start by October 19, 1927. #Onthisday in 1927, Cy Caldwell took off for Havana from Key West in a Fairchild FC-2, named La Niña, with 7 bags of mail. #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on October 19, 2021.
Philippine Air Lines (PAL) was founded #onthisday in 1941 by various businessmen, including Andrés Soriano, who was the president of the San Miguel brewery. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 26, 2019.
Preeminent French couturier Pierre Balmain was born #OnThisDay in 1914. He was highly successful at translating Parisian styles into ready-to-wear collections, and among his creations were sophisticated and elegant uniforms for TWA and Cathay Pacific.
This tweet was posted on May 18, 2021.
RT @Tate: Yayoi Kusama was born #onthisday in 1929 🎈 Who remembers being inside her spectacular spotty dotty Obliteration Room at Tate Mode…
This tweet was posted on March 22, 2019.