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Introduced in 1952, the de Havilland Comet was the first commercial passenger jetliner to enter service, years before the introduction of other jetliners. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on September 27, 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 September 13, 2018.

The DC-7C could comfortably seat up to eighty-four passengers and was mostly operated in a tourist class configuration. Many regular business travelers chose the DC-7C simply because it saved at least one hour on most transatlantic routes. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on September 13, 2018.

Promoted as the “Super Seven,” #PanAm introduced the DC-7C in May 1956, on the Atlantic route from Miami to Paris, and in September 1957, on the transpolar “great circle route,” across the Arctic Ocean to Northern Europe. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on September 13, 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 August 30, 2018.

The all-metal Ford Tri-Motor, or “Tin Goose,” as it was nicknamed, had a substantial impact on the early advancement of commercial aviation in the late 1920s. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on August 30, 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 August 24, 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.

The cabin had a capacity for fifty-nine tourist-class passengers on the upper deck and forty-eight second-class passengers on the lower. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on August 24, 2018.

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.

The Sikorsky S-42 was developed to meet the requirements of Pan American Airways’ president Juan T. Trippe for a large, long-range, trans-oceanic flying boat. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on August 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. #AviationEvolutions https://t.co/lZ4ZbaBqmp This tweet was posted on August 08, 2018.