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This cutaway model represents the first Electra delivered to Western, registered as N7135C, and features a highly detailed fuselage, wings, engines, cockpit, and cabin interior with a galley, luggage racks, closets, and a lounge. #CutAboveModels This tweet was posted on September 04, 2024.

This cutaway model of the Western Airlines Lockheed L-188A Electra turboprop was created by Gary Field (b. This image was posted on September 04, 2024. #cutabovemodels

While at Elano, she designed an aircraft manifold that, despite initial rejections by aircraft engine manufacturers, eventually became standard equipment on many models, adding power, reducing engine maintenance requirements, and enabling a quieter, better-heated cockpit. This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.

#Onthisday in 2017, United Airlines’ last scheduled Boeing 747 flight departed from SFO. This image was posted on November 07, 2022. #united #boeing747 #sfohistory #avgeek

📸: Charles Kingsford Smith in the cockpit of the Southern Cross before takeoff for Canberra from Melbourne June 15, 1928 photograph National Library of Australia, Charles Ulm National Aviation Collection PIC/8392/151 LOC ALBUM 1033/2 R2020.2409.002 This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.

Created to be an easily viewable, three-dimensional presentation of the Jet Mainliner in miniature, the cutaway model contains a highly detailed cockpit and cabin interior with minute features that accurately replicate the actual United DC-8 as launched in 1959. #aircraftmodels This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

Our 1:10-scale cutaway model of a United Air Lines DC-8 was created by Pacific Miniatures to be a promotional presentation of the Jet Mainliner in miniature. This image was posted on October 18, 2022. #minimainliner #jetage #aircraftmodels #avgeek #united #dc8

Introduced in 1959, the Douglas DC-8 was United Air Lines’ first jet airliner to be launched into service and the second American jetliner to be launched into service after Boeing’s 707. This image was posted on May 10, 2022. #jetage #aircraftmodels #avgeek #united #dc8

RT @airandspace: 35 year ago today, the Airbus A320 made its first flight. Featuring a glass cockpit with a unique side-stick controller to… This tweet was posted on February 22, 2022.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 incorporated many design features of the DC-10 such as the trijet configuration, but also differed as it featured a stretched fuselage, increased wingspan, a redesigned wing trailing edge, and a glass cockpit. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on October 20, 2021.

The medium- to short-haul, narrow-bodied aircraft have ranges of up to 4,315 miles and cruising speeds of around 515mph. The A320 family was the first to feature an entirely computerized glass cockpit and digital fly-by-wire flight control technology. #WingWenesday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 13, 2021.

📸1/2: article: Delta Air Lines, Airbus A320-200; 2019 Gift of Charlie Volkman 2019.033.003 a b poster: Airbus A320, cockpit simulation; 1980s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2010.105.570 This tweet was posted on October 13, 2021.

Preliminary designs of the 757 retained some features of the 727. However, as development progressed, the design upgraded the electromechanical cockpit to computerized cathode-ray tube color displays and the T-tail was scrapped to allow for more passenger capacity. #WingWendesday This tweet was posted on September 29, 2021.

📸 3/3: All: United DC-8; 1962 Gift of United Airlines Archives 2005.015.028 DC-8 lounge; c. 1959 Gift of M.D. Klaas 2018.112.0932 DC-8 cockpit; 1960s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.109.103 brochure: DC-8-61; c. 1967 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2012.096.188 This tweet was posted on July 07, 2021.

While at Elano, Zoe Dell designed an aircraft manifold that, despite initial rejections by all aircraft engine manufacturers, eventually became standard equipment on many models, adding power, reducing engine maintenance requirements, & enabling a quieter, better-heated cockpit. This tweet was posted on June 14, 2021.

With nineteen windowpanes, the cockpit of the Boeing 377 offered one of the highest degrees of visibility of any airliner. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on May 12, 2021.

📸 2/3: All are Pan Am Boeing 377s Lounge; c. 1952 Gift of William E. Talbott 2012.151.310 Cockpit; c. 1952 Gift of William E. Talbott 2012.151.312 Cockpit simulator; c. 1949 Gift of the San Francisco Aeronautical Society 2002.017.006.004 This tweet was posted on May 12, 2021.

📸2: Aerovias Venezuela Europa, DC-4 cockpit; 1950s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.0108 Pan Am, Boeing 314a “Capetown Clipper” and Douglas DC-4; c. late 1940s 1993.03.14 Pan Am, DC-4; late 1940s 1993.03.22 Western Air Lines; Nov. 1949 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.167.887 This tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.

RT @flySFO: Congratulations @airindiain on a historic flight! Flight AI176 was piloted by an all female cockpit crew for the landmark journ… This tweet was posted on January 11, 2021.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 incorporated many design features of the DC-10 such as the trijet configuration, but also deviated as it featured a stretched fuselage, increased wingspan, a redesigned wing trailing edge, and a glass cockpit. This image was posted on October 20, 2021. #wingwednesday #md11 #mcdonnelldouglas #airplane

The Airbus A320 family includes the Airbus A318, A319, A320, and A321. This image was posted on October 13, 2021. #wingwenesday #airbus #airbus320

Following the success of its best-selling, narrow-body 727 trijet, Boeing began developing a twin engine aircraft as its successor, the 757. This image was posted on September 29, 2021. #wingwendesday #boeing #airplane #757

Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter, an American dancer, actress and model who became a promoter, educator, marketer, commercial pilot, and philanthropist, was born on this day in 1915. This image was posted on June 14, 2021. #onthisday #otd #aviationhistory #womeninaviation #avgeek

The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was considered the most luxurious airliner aloft when introduced by Pan American World Airways in 1949. This image was posted on May 12, 2021. #wingwednesday #avgeek #airplane #boeing #boeing377

American Airliner Cockpits: 1925–1975

This aviation exhibition was on display between 2017~ and July 2019 in the AML Aviation Museum Gallery 06a-e gallery, located in International Terminal

American Airliner Cockpits: 1925–1975

This aviation exhibition was on display between March 2019 and 2017~ in the AML Aviation Museum Gallery 06a-e gallery, located in International Terminal

#OnThisDay in 1969, the first widebody jet landed at San Francisco International Airport. This image was posted on December 21, 2020. #museumfromhome #sfohistory #panam #avgeek

Peek inside a 1950s Boeing 377 Stratocruiser to see the state-of-the-art cockpit w/seats for 5 crew members: http://t.co/u3n2wdXG8R #avgeeks This tweet was posted on March 21, 2013.

Boeing's 1950s era 377 Stratocruiser cockpit had seats for the captain, copilot, engineer, radio operator & navigator: http://t.co/newaNulv This tweet was posted on November 15, 2012.

#Onthisday, the first McDonnell Douglas MD-11 took flight in 1990. The MD-11 was based on the design of the DC-10, introduced in 1971, and featured a stretched fuselage, increased wingspan, and a glass cockpit. Have you ever flown on a #MD11? #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 10, 2020.

RT @airandspace: Earhart made this record-setting flight in her "Little Red Bus," a Lockheed Vega. Take a look inside the cockpit of this i… This tweet was posted on May 22, 2019.

RT @airandspace: On this day in 1927, Charles Lindbergh climbed into the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis and flew the history-making air… This tweet was posted on April 29, 2019.

Ever wonder what the #cockpit of the Boeing 377 looked like? Our newest exhibition "American Airliner Cockpits, 1925–1975" has not one but two views inside this aircraft, and many others. #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 27, 2019.

See "American Airliner Cockpits, 1925–1975" on display, in the Aviation Museum and Library. #cockpit #cockpits #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 27, 2019.

Have you ever seen the cockpit of the Concorde? The Front Dash Panel Controls operated by the pilot and the first officer are shown in this photo. Starting in March we will also have a whole photography show on airline cockpits! #StayTuned This tweet was posted on December 13, 2018.

Have you ever seen the #cockpit of an Ilyushin Il-86? In commercial service it had the distinction of being safe and reliable with no major incidents during the three decades of its operation. Did you ever fly on an #Ilyushin Il-86? #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 20, 2018.