#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.
#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.
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.
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.
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 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. 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. 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 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.