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Brags an ad from 1948: "Pick your continent! Only Pan Am flies to all 6." http://t.co/gj6gR2i4GR #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 05, 2015.
Braniff International was the only airline besides Air France and British Airways to operate the Concorde. #SSTFirstGeneration #AvGeek #Concorde #Braniff This tweet was posted on July 05, 2023.
Britain's former international flag carrier airline, British Overseas Airways Corporation, or BOAC was founded #onthisday in 1939. In 1974, BOAC merged with British European Airways (BEA) to form @British_Airways. Did you ever fly on #BOAC? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on November 24, 2020.
By 1930, the Pan American Airways System linked twenty-nine Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories with regularly scheduled airmail, passenger, and cargo flights. #DefunctThursday #PanAmerican #PanAm #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on August 04, 2022.
By 1930, weather studies confirmed that Mills Field was the best possible location for an airport, and San Francisco began a ten-year purchasing program with the Mills Estate to acquire 1,112 acres. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 30, 2021.
By 1934, all four subsidiaries had been fully absorbed into a single company operating as United Air Lines, which became the major carrier on the San Francisco–Chicago–New York route known as the “Main Line.” #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
By 1962, Piedmont's service extended to Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Their entry into the jet age was powered by a Boeing 727 in 1967. Piedmont started to operate Boeing 737s the next year. #DefunctThursday #Piedmont #AvGeek This tweet was posted on September 29, 2022.
By late 1945, #PanAm realized the superiority of the DC-4 over the Boeing 314 flying boat and began to operate the airliner on both transpacific and transatlantic routes. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.
By the end of 1962, the service grew to 100 flights a day. In 1963, the company received the first permanent certificate issued by the C.A.B to any helicopter carrier. #DefunctThursday #SFOHelicopter #AvGeek This tweet was posted on November 10, 2022.
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 end of the decade, flight attendant uniforms became cool and chic rather than regimented and conservative. This exhibition features some of the wilder uniforms made between 1967–74 for Braniff, Northwest Orient, Pan American, TWA, and United. #FlightPatterns #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 04, 2022.
CNAC's first planes in 1929 were Loening Air Yachts, which were housed in bamboo hangars: http://t.co/9CjusSSu4D #CNAC #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 24, 2014.
Cable cars are one of San Francisco's best known landmarks and have been featured on a wide variety of promotional items, especially those related to travel. Did you know San Francisco's cable cars date back to 1873? Have you ever ridden on a cable car? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on July 24, 2020.
California Central Airlines (CCA) was a short-lived post-war airline based in #Burbank, #California. #avgeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on September 11, 2017.
Calling all #avgeeks & #musegeeks please share our new #Curator of #Aviation position! Closing 06/15/16 #musejobs https://t.co/KqhLfUSh1S This tweet was posted on June 01, 2016.
Can you believe it has been 20 years? On December 1, 2001, the final Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight departed from Kansas City, Missouri, and landed in St. Louis. #avgeek #OTD This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
Can you guess what this object is? #avgeek #united #themainline #trivia This tweet was posted on September 18, 2017.
Can you imagine a roundtrip flight from the Philippine capital of Manila, to California taking 15 days? In 1935, the first scheduled transpacific airmail flight took 8 days to reach Manila from Alameda, and 4 days to come back, for a total of 123 flight hours. #avgeek #PanAm This tweet was posted on December 06, 2019.
Can you imagine witnessing the marvel of flight for the first time? http://t.co/OumCfDIxyd #InspirationMW #MuseumWeek #PPIE100 #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 26, 2015.
Can you name the plane in the foreground of this photo? #NameThatPlane #AvGeek #TailTuesday https://t.co/1R4td1kp75 This tweet was posted on May 24, 2016.
Can't get enough of the dawn of the jet age? Check out our database for everything #Boeing707. https://t.co/8wIhtU9N4k #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 01, 2017.
Capital used its company name as a territorial signifier to identify with the capital city. In 1961, Capital was absorbed by United Air Lines. #DefunctThursday #CapitalAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 10, 2022.
Captain Zoya Agarwal (@CaptainZoya) led an all-female crew for a record-breaking @AirIndia flight from @flySFO to Bengaluru over the North Pole to celebrate International Women’s Day in January 2021. #avgeek #WomeninAviation #WomensEqualityDay2022 This tweet was posted on August 26, 2022.
Cargo, loaded through the nose of the Boeing 747, allowed for easy loading of oversized items. This configuration was possible because the flight deck was located on the upper level of the 747 and situated just behind the door hinges. #MuseumFromHome #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 20, 2020.
Cast your mind far, far back to the days before cell phones... When travelling internationally, how would you make a phone call? United Airlines offered pre-paid phone cards through their mileage reward programs. Do you remember using phone cards? #avgeek This tweet was posted on September 25, 2018.
Celebrate #PlayingCardDay with a few of our 1,500 decks of playing cards from airlines around the world! https://t.co/W41jxlxseW #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 28, 2015.
Check out a few of our huge collection of airline insignia online: https://t.co/cJiFyOYIeK #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 10, 2016.
Check out our newest blog post on Al Mueller, Jr., and his lifetime of traveling and collecting: https://t.co/78tMF9742E #AvGeek #Blog This tweet was posted on June 29, 2023.
Check out that Hughes Airwest outfit in Cliff Muskiet's collection of stewardess uniforms! Yow! (via @CNN) http://t.co/Hb97DS7u #AVgeeks This tweet was posted on March 30, 2012.
Check out this slideshow with historical photos from the book, Pan Am: An Aviation Legend by Barnaby Conrad! #AVGeek https://t.co/wajVMRM6Hh This tweet was posted on October 30, 2015.
Cheers to a happy Valentine’s Day! This beverage menu from United Air Lines from the 1960s features a Special Very Dry Martini-on-the-Rocks (Gin or Vodka). Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day? #UnitedAirLines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 14, 2023.
City officials signed a three-year lease for 150 acres of cattle-grazing land from Ogden Mills, and less than two months later on May 7, a 5,770-foot-long, dirt-surfaced runway was dedicated at Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco. #AvGeek #MillsField #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
Clara Adams was a wealthy widow and able to take part in some of the most important flights in aviation history. Here she is with other passengers waiting to board the inaugural flight of the #PanAmerican Hawaii Clipper in 1936. #womeninaviation #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 12, 2018.
Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco was commissioned #onthisday in 1940. @flySFO provided 20.53 acres at its seaplane harbor for the Air Station site. In exchange, the federal government dredged and maintained the harbor and its channel to the bay. #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 15, 2019.
Cockpits have changed a bit since 1939... http://t.co/IQOguD0nxB #tbt #avgeek This tweet was posted on May 21, 2015.
Cocktail-loving jet-setter? #PanAm nailed their promo item for you: http://t.co/CU2Lfk2VvU #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 06, 2015.