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"#AviationEvolutions: The #JimLund 1:72 Scale #ModelAirplane Collection", Is on display, pre-security, in the IT. https://t.co/lZ4ZbaBqmp This tweet was posted on October 25, 2017.
#AmericanAir purchased a large fleet of the airliner and eventually became the world’s largest MD-80 operator. (Currently, #Delta Air Lines is the largest operator.) The aircraft proved ideal for the carrier’s many mid-range, regional services. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on December 11, 2018.
#JimLund has a passionate interest in #aviation dating back to his childhood when he first constructed #aircraftmodels. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on October 25, 2017.
#OnThisDay in 1927, #CharlesLindbergh landed in #Paris, #France in his #Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis,” making him the first person to complete a solo, non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. https://t.co/lZ4ZbaBqmp #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on May 21, 2018.
#OnThisDay in 1962, the #Vickers VC10 took off on its maiden flight. The VC10 was similar in size and capacity to the #Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. It was developed for #transoceanic routes as well as to operate from short runway airports. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on June 29, 2018.
#Onthisday in 1947, off the coast of San Pedro, California, the #Hughes H-4 #Hercules took off and covered only a mile, at an altitude of 70 feet with Howard #Hughes at the controls. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on November 02, 2018.
#TWA’s Lockheed 1049 Super Constellations or “Super Gs” were appointed with interiors created by the renowned industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss. They included a lounge, sleeping berths, and colorful murals. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on October 25, 2018.
#UTA introduced the aircraft in 1973, and by the mid-1970s, the carrier was operating it on many of its #longhaul #transatlantic routes to North and South America. #AviationEvolutions #avgeek This tweet was posted on June 20, 2018.
A supersonic transatlantic flight on the #Concorde between Paris and Washington D.C. lasted on average just three and one-half hours at 1,350 miles per hour, faster than the speed of the Earth's rotation. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on March 11, 2018.
A triple-decked plane in the 1930s?! Completed in 1935, the Latécoère 521 Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris was one of the largest flying boats of its day, with three decks and a capacity for 72 passengers. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 08, 2018.
After the war, Commandos were acquired by numerous commercial carriers. Most were operated by commercial air cargo companies such as the Flying Tiger Line. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on May 31, 2018.
Air France ordered twelve of the aircraft, which entered service in 1953, and were operated on routes to Algiers and Southern Europe for carrying both passengers and freight. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on August 24, 2018.
Although initially less successful as a commercial passenger jetliner than the #Boeing design, the #Douglas DC-8 outlasted the 707. Moreover, many freighter versions are still in operation. Have you ever flown on a DC-8? #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 09, 2019.
Although the #Sikorsky S-40 served #PanAm well through the 1930s, it was often noted for its lack of aerodynamic efficiency due to its many struts and support wires. Charles Lindbergh famously referred to it as a “flying forest.” #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 28, 2019.
At the end of World War II, the #French aircraft manufacturer Breguet began designing a large-capacity, mid-range #airliner that would ultimately become the four-engine, double-deck 763 Provence. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on August 24, 2018.
CORRECTION: The Comet 4 cruised at five hundred miles an hour and comfortably accommodated up to eighty-one passengers. Did you ever fly on a Comet 4? #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on September 28, 2018.
Designated "Star Stream" by TWA, the 707 proved to be a fast, reliable, intercontinental and transcontinental workhorse and was operated by the airline until the early 1980s. #AviationEvolutions #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 24, 2018.
During the 1980s, #Qantas purchased six of the #Boeing #767-200ER (ER for extra range), and forty-one of the 767-300ER, which proved ideal for the carrier’s expansion into the Asian market. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on November 30, 2018.
First flown in 1947, 176 #Convair 240s were produced for numerous airlines worldwide, including #PanAmerican World Airways, which operated a fleet of twenty of the type. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on July 17, 2018.
First flown in 1957, the Boeing Model 707 was the second successful pure-turbojet airliner to be introduced, and effectively ushered in the jet age. #AviationEvolutions #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 24, 2018.
First flown in 1957, the Boeing Model 707 was the second successful pure-turbojet airliner to be introduced, and effectively ushered in the jet age. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 24, 2018.
In 1930, the British #aviatrix Amy Johnson, who was born #onthisday in 1903, flew the Gipsy Moth G-AAAH solo from England to Australia. She was the first woman to accomplish this feat. #womeninaviation #AviationEvolutions #HBD This tweet was posted on July 01, 2018.
In 1930, the British aviatrix Amy Johnson flew the Gipsy Moth G-AAAH solo from England to Australia. She was the first woman to accomplish this feat. #womeninaviation #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on April 04, 2018.
In 1935, in response to a request for a large-capacity, long-range airliner from #United Air Lines, Douglas began developing the DC-4. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on November 29, 2017.
In 1938, a modified version of the Lockheed Model 14 was flown by Howard Hughes and a crew of four to circumnavigate the northern hemisphere, covering 23,804 miles in three days and nineteen hours, a world record. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on December 07, 2018.
In 1939, an S.30 inaugurated Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL) service, from Auckland to Sydney. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on April 12, 2018.
In 1939, an S.30 inaugurated Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL) service, from Auckland to Sydney. Weekly service was later expanded to 3 flights every 2 weeks with connections to San Francisco on Pan American Airways flying boats operating out of Auckland. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 17, 2019.
In 1958, BOAC inaugurated the airline’s first regular round-the-world service via San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Tokyo with the urboprop Britannia, developed and produced by the Bristol Aircraft Company. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on November 09, 2018.
In 1959, United Air Lines and Delta Airlines introduced the Douglas DC-8. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 18, 2018.
In 1959, United Air Lines and Delta Airlines introduced the Douglas DC-8. The DC-8-63 series, an updated, stretched, long-range variant of the DC-8 promoted as the "Super 63", was introduced nearly a decade later. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on February 22, 2019.
In June 1937, under the service of Air France, the aircraft flew the transatlantic route to Natal and returned to France via the North Atlantic. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 08, 2018.
In an effort to compete with TWA (Trans World Airlines) on transatlantic routes to Europe, Pan American World Airways ordered the extended-range DC-7C (dubbed the "Seven Seas") from Douglas Aircraft. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on February 12, 2018.
In late 1945, #PanAmerican realized the superiority of the DC-4 over the #Boeing 314 flying boat and began operating the airliner on transpacific routes and, by 1948, on transatlantic routes to Europe. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on December 26, 2018.
In the mid-1950s, Fokker Aircraft of the Netherlands began developing an airliner that would fill a major niche in regional commercial aviation, the F-27 Friendship. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on August 08, 2018.
In the mid-1950s, Fokker began developing an airliner that would fill a major niche in regional commercial aviation: the F-27 Friendship. The F-27 featured short takeoff and landing capabilities, which made it ideal for operating out of small airports. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on February 15, 2019.
Introduced in 1951, the #Lockheed 1049 Super #Constellation was an enhanced-range, stretched upgrade of the 049 Constellation and was designed primarily to compete on #transatlantic routes with the Douglas DC-6. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on October 25, 2018.