@SFOMuseum Twitter Posts Tagged AviationEvolutions This is SFO Museum's archive of the @SFOMuseum Twitter account. There are 139 posts and this is page 11 of 12. See all the tags or all the Twitter posts that have been archived so far.

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.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines purchased a large fleet of the DC-8-63 and operated them though the 1980s. The airliner was reliable, comfortable, and ideal for the carrier’s transoceanic, world routes. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 18, 2018.

In 1959, United Air Lines and Delta Airlines introduced the Douglas DC-8. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 18, 2018.

See "Aviation Evolutions: The Jim Lund 1:72 Scale Model Airplane Collection", which features more than 200 models on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum. https://t.co/lZ4ZbaBqmp #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on January 08, 2018.

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.

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.

The Boeing 377’s four twenty-eight-cylinder Pratt & Whitney radial engines enabled the Stratocruiser, as its name asserted, to cruise in the stratosphere at over 300 miles per hour. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on December 14, 2017.

When introduced in 1949 by #PanAmerican World Airways, the #Boeing 377 #Stratocruiser was considered the most luxurious airliner aloft. #avgeek #panam #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on December 14, 2017.

See "#AviationEvolutions: The Jim Lund 1:72 Scale Model Airplane Collection", which features more than 200 airline models, on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum. https://t.co/lZ4ZbaBqmp This tweet was posted on December 08, 2017.

Operated on domestic routes, as well as transatlantic routes between Europe and North America, the 049 #Constellation played a major role in advancing long-range commercial aviation during the immediate postwar era. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on December 08, 2017.

The 049 #Constellation was an extremely fast, highly advanced, and revolutionary large-capacity airliner with a unique dolphin-shaped fuselage and distinctive #tripletail. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on December 08, 2017.

See "#AviationEvolutions: The Jim Lund 1:72 Scale Model Airplane Collection", which features nearly 300 airline models, on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum. https://t.co/lZ4ZbaBqmp This tweet was posted on November 29, 2017.