@SFOMuseum Twitter Posts Tagged OnThisDay This is SFO Museum's archive of the @SFOMuseum Twitter account. There are 488 posts and this is page 6 of 41. See all the tags or all the Twitter posts that have been archived so far.
Happy birthday, Dame Vivienne Westwood! The fashion designer, born #onthisday in 1941, was a major influence in British punk fashion. She brought her unique style to @VirginAtlantic in 2014 with this uniform to match the airline’s maverick attitude. #VivienneWestwood #avgeek
This tweet was posted on April 08, 2022.
Founded #onthisday in 1926, United Airlines was formed by a merger of four companies. National Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, and Varney Air Lines were organized in 1931 under United Air Lines, Inc. #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines
This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
The Pan American Airways Marine Air Terminal on Dinner Key in Miami, Florida, was considered a milestone of design in commercial aviation when it opened #onthisday in 1934. The building served as #PanAm’s base for operations throughout the Caribbean, Central, and South America.
This tweet was posted on March 25, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1920, Hollywood costume designer and Academy Award winner, William Travilla, was born in Los Angeles, California. Well known for dressing Marilyn Monroe, Travilla created this synthetic blend, summer seasonal ensemble for #United in a new color named Blue Frost.
This tweet was posted on March 22, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1947, the #Convair 240 made its maiden flight. It could carry forty passengers comfortably and had a range of up to 1,200 miles. Introduced by American Airlines in 1948, 176 were produced for numerous airlines worldwide. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on March 16, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1967, Air Southwest Company was founded by Herb Kelleher and in 1971, its name was changed to Southwest Airlines Company.
#avgeek #southwest
This tweet was posted on March 15, 2022.
#OnThisDay in 1923, French fashion designer André Courrèges was born. His 1973 uniform for UTA had a skirt or flared trousers option, a fitted sweater, and a short jacket in imitation leather. The pearlescent pink, powder blue, or red outfits came with white vinyl flat boots.
This tweet was posted on March 09, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1969, the first Concorde took off on its maiden flight departing from Toulouse, France. Developed as a joint endeavor between the governments of Great Britain and France, the aircraft that made this flight, Concorde 001, was built in France. #Concorde #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on March 02, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1948, artist Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China. Liu's signature painterly style was one that allowed the paint to drip across the image. https://t.co/LpTLyXB2MC #HungLiu #SFAC #PublicArt
This tweet was posted on February 17, 2022.
The first flight of the Boeing 247 took off #onthisday in 1933. Often referred to as the first modern airliner, the ten-passenger airliner was primarily operated on United’s “Mainline” transcontinental route. #AvGeek #Boeing #United
This tweet was posted on February 08, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1964, Eastern Air Lines first introduced the Boeing 727. The aircraft was a medium range, intermediate-capacity jetliner that could serve regional airports with short runways. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 01, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1949, Pan American World Airways received their first delivery of a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. #PanAm launched #Stratocruiser transpacific service from San Francisco to Hawai’i in April 1949, and transatlantic service to London in June 1949. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 31, 2022.