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Several months later, TWA extended service to Rome, Athens, Lisbon, and Madrid with Lockheed 049 Constellations. In 1950, the company changed its name to Trans World Airways, retaining its well-known initials. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 08, 2022.
Short snorters: excellent souvenirs and potential drink suppliers. http://t.co/ow18fHocMa #TravelTuesday #PanAm #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 21, 2015.
Since starting service, Southwest has the distinction of almost exclusively operating the Boeing 737 family, except for a brief period when the airline operated Boeing 727s. #avgeek #southwest This tweet was posted on March 15, 2022.
Since the early 1950s, #KLM has offered first and business-class passengers promotional giveaway #Delftware gin bottles in the shape of traditional #Dutch houses. Do you own any Delftware bottles? #TravelTuesday #AVgeek This tweet was posted on May 08, 2018.
Smart looking and allowing greater ease of mobility for the demands of jet service, it was issued from 1965 to 1968 and became known as “the cheerleader” because of its flared skirt. #avgeek #WilliamTravilla #united This tweet was posted on March 22, 2022.
Smocks and aprons are a crucial yet often overlooked part of a flight attendant’s uniform and can vary wildly in design from one airline or era to another. Browse our collection of over one hundred smocks & aprons in our online database: https://t.co/pUb01199b1 #crewlife #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.
So cool to see depictions of fashionable folks in 1934 boarding their plane...that is docked on water! http://t.co/8x4paRFlvD #PanAm #avgeek This tweet was posted on September 26, 2013.
Sold through mail-order catalogs and at airport stores and sometimes given out to first-class passengers, airline bags became a desirable status symbol that identified its user as a member of the new globe-trotting jet set. https://t.co/oVQUiov5WJ #flightbags #airlinebags #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 05, 2022.
Some of the final objects to be reinstalled are model aircraft suspended from the ceiling. Our preparators took great care in re-hanging models of the Pan Am Clipper (a Sikorsky S-42) and the China Clipper (a Martin M-130). #AvGeek #BehindTheScenes #SneakPeek This tweet was posted on May 27, 2022.
Standing 221 feet tall, the new tower is seismically fitted to withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake. #sfohistory #avgeek #sfo This tweet was posted on October 11, 2017.
Stanley Henry Page (1885-1964) was a San Francisco Bay Area engineer who was inspired by the new technologies of flight. Page merged his love of flying with glass plate photography. #StanleyHenryPage #avgeek This tweet was posted on October 04, 2019.
Stanley Henry Page was an early twentieth-century San Francisco Bay Area engineer who was inspired by the new technologies of flight and photography. #StanleyHenryPage #SHPage #avgeek #SFHistory This tweet was posted on February 21, 2020.
Stanley Kubrick's 1960s vision of a #PanAm flight attendant: http://t.co/ZPqdHyKecm #avgeek This tweet was posted on October 18, 2013.
Stir it up with some Swizzle Sticks! Browse over three hundred swizzle sticks on our online collection. https://t.co/OsJOYaHw8s #SwizzleSticks #collections #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on July 11, 2022.
Stunning photo of night flying at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Expo: http://t.co/SidiWevWWa #PPIE100 #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 17, 2015.
Successful advertising in 2 words: the Duke. 1960s Air France ad featured the star & a prominent flight bag: http://t.co/wSFkHXgqkk #avgeek This tweet was posted on June 18, 2013.
Summer is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you like to go this summer? #traveltuesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on June 26, 2018.
TCA's 1950s ultra-modern Super Constellation was dubbed "the Queen of the Skies" http://t.co/QkzHS5mj On view: http://t.co/XdvohqRo #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 24, 2013.
TWA was purchased by American financier Carl Icahn in the 1980s, though the company struggled in the post airline-deregulation era. The airline filed for bankruptcy three times between 1992 and 2001, when it was acquired by American Airlines. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 15, 2022.
TWA's last scheduled Boeing 707 flight took off on its final departure #onthisday in 1983, flying from MIA to JFK. This Boeing 707, registration number, N18710, joined TWA in March of 1967. #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on October 30, 2018.
TWA’s first all-air coast-to-coast service took place on October 25, 1930, in a Ford Tri-motor. The trip took 36 hours and included an overnight stay in Kansas City. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 01, 2022.
Take a walk through the past! Our collection includes many interior photos of the airport through the years, over one hundred and thirty of which are online: https://t.co/2ZN5zkSnR4 #AvGeek #SFOHistory #airport This tweet was posted on December 21, 2022.
Take any "PlaneTrain", #PanAm urged in the 1930s, to escape winter and soak up the sun! http://t.co/zFYaBkIsvh #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 10, 2015.
Taking off from Idlewild airport in NY #onthisday in 1958, #PanAm became the first airline to inaugurate scheduled transatlantic commercial jet service on a Boeing 707. 111 passengers boarded the jetliner, named “Clipper America,” bound for Le Bourget Airport, Paris. #avgeek This tweet was posted on October 26, 2021.
Terminal 2, previously known as the Central Terminal, opened in 1954. Here are views of the terminal from just before its opening, the 1980s, and 2012. #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 28, 2019.
Texas-based Braniff International Airways, which operated from 1930 to 1982, has the distinction of being one the very few airlines named eponymously for its owner. #DefunctThursday #Braniff #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 10, 2022.
Thanks for the visit, @JamesJetsOften! We love the photos! http://t.co/FqhjakGPae http://t.co/JME2n3BGHZ http://t.co/UA9AaMzKdh #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 24, 2013.
Thanks to the folks who came to last night's #PanAfrica talk by Tom Culbert! Great pic by @JamesJetsOften- http://t.co/6JnId8xbvJ #avgeek This tweet was posted on May 31, 2013.
The #Blériot XI monoplane took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1909. On July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot flew the aircraft over the English Channel from Calais, France, to Dover, England completing the first successful crossing of the Channel in an airplane. #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 23, 2020.
The #Boeing 747 offered the airline a comfortable, roomy, and luxurious cabin interior. In an advertisement, #BOAC proclaimed “you will hardly believe you're in an aircraft.” #WidebodyAV #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on April 07, 2020.
The #Boeing727 featured a clean swept wing, a high horizontal stabilizer, and a unique tri-jet configuration. This design dictated that the horizontal stabilizer be placed well away from the middle engine, high on top of the vertical stabilizer. #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 01, 2022.
The #Dornier Do X flying boat was the largest #airplane built at the time of its introduction in 1929. #AviationEvolutions #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 10, 2017.
The #FlyingTigerLine was founded in 1945. Though primarily a cargo carrier, the airline had a few scheduled passenger flights. #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 07, 2017.
The #Lockheed #Electra 10, developed to compete with the #Boeing 247 and the Douglas DC-2, made its first flight #onthisday in 1934. #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 23, 2017.
The #Lockheed L-1011 #TriStar took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1970. Only 250 L-1011 TriStar jets were produced and production halted in 1982. Did you ever fly on a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on November 16, 2020.
The 1930s saw the company expand service westward from its Twin Cities base, and service to Seattle was flown by 1933. A year later, the airline was renamed Northwest Airlines and acquired the Lockheed 10-A Electra. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek #NorthwestOrient This tweet was posted on June 30, 2022.