@SFOMuseum Twitter Posts Tagged onthisday This is SFO Museum's archive of the @SFOMuseum Twitter account. There are 488 posts and this is page 12 of 41. See all the tags or all the Twitter posts that have been archived so far.
Artist Alexander Calder was born #onthisday in 1898. In the early 1970s, Calder was commissioned to paint several aircraft operated by Braniff International Airways. Do you remember his livery for Braniff? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome #AlexanderCalder #avgeek
This tweet was posted on July 22, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1983, Central Terminal was rededicated as the International Terminal. Constructed between 1951 and 1954, the Central Terminal ushered SFO into the jet age. It served as the International Terminal until the current IT opened in 2000. #SFOHistory #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on July 13, 2020.
#OnThisDay in 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed in Paris, France, after completing his historic solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. His 3,500-mile journey crossed more than 1,900 miles of open ocean before he landed in Paris’ Le Bourget Field. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 21, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1932, #AmeliaEarhart departed from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, in a single-engine Lockheed Vega 5B. After 15 hours, she landed in Northern Ireland and became the first woman & the second person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 20, 2020.
#OnThisDay in 1953, the Douglas DC-7 took its maiden flight. American Airlines was the first to put in an order of 25 aircraft. Have you ever flown on a DC-7? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 18, 2020.
Happy Birthday to Jackie Cochran, born #onthisday in 1906 in Muscogee, Florida. After taking her first flying lessons in 1932, she obtained her pilot's license in just three weeks. In 1938, she won the Bendix Trophy, a race from LA to Cleveland. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 11, 2020.
Happy Birthday San Francisco International Airport! The dedication ceremony of Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, the original name of SFO, took place #onthisday in 1927. #SFOHistory #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 07, 2020.
People Express Airlines commenced operations #onthisday in 1981. A low-cost airline inspired by Freddie Laker and Laker Air, People Express only lasted a few years and merged with Continental Airlines in 1987. Did you ever fly on #PeoplExpress? #Avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on April 30, 2020.
Construction of the North Terminal (now Terminal 3) began #onthisday in 1971 with a groundbreaking ceremony that included a water cannon salute performed by airport fire trucks & speeches by Airport Director James Kennedy Carr and Mayor Joseph Alioto. #MuseumFromHome #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on April 22, 2020.
Happy Birthday San Francisco! SF was incorporated #onthisday in 1850. In 2013, we presented “San Francisco: From the David Rumsey Map Collection” which featured maps of our fair city from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. https://t.co/dx9IyBEHeW
This tweet was posted on April 15, 2020.
#Onthisday in 2011, the newly remodeled Terminal 2 opened. Completed in 1954 as the Central Terminal, T2 has gone through many remodels, including this one in the early 1980s that updated the control tower. #SFOHistory #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on April 14, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1969, the first British-made #Concorde took off on its maiden flight departing from Filton, UK. Developed as a joint endeavor between the governments of Great Britain and France, the aircraft could travel at 1,350 miles per hour. #MuseumFromHome #avgeek
This tweet was posted on April 09, 2020.