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Jun. 18, 2013

Thai Airways Res Then and Now

What a difference 39 years makes! ....More
Jun. 3, 2013

An Old Frontier

Shown are summer uniforms worn by the flight attendants in the late 1940s at Challenger Airlines. At the time, uniforms changed often. But then, so....More
May. 17, 2013

United leading the way

  Shortly after the historic Pasco, Washington-Boise, Idaho-Elko, Nevada  flight of Varney Air Lines on April 6, 1926, this group posed....More
May. 7, 2013

British United Airways has busy decade

  British United was the largest privately owned airline in the 1960s in the UK.  It began as a merger between Airwork Services and....More
Apr. 18, 2013

Lindbergh flies Mexicana Trimotor

  In February 1929, after eight years of operation, Pan Am owner Juan Trippe took over Mexicana and opened the carrier’s first....More
Apr. 10, 2013

Braniff Ultra Space Interior

Caption, November 29, 1978: Additions to Braniff International’s fleet of intercontinental McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62s will be equipped with....More
Apr. 2, 2013

Safety Beginnings

  In the Dec. 18, 1972 edition of TWA’s Today employee newspaper, an article announced a new security device being deployed at New....More
Mar. 22, 2013

Olympic Trials

  Olympic Airways began flying in 1957 under the ownership of shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. He offered free DC-3 flights to travelers....More
Mar. 18, 2013

Fokker F.32 living large, fast

I had to look at this photo twice to make sure it was an aircraft cabin—it looks more like a busy coffeehouse. This is a Western Air Express....More
Feb. 22, 2013

Big Babies

I know I have a “thing” for the cargo airliners as my last Time Capsule showed an Alaska International Hercules.  The more I dug....More
Aug. 14, 2012

The Beatles Arrive in Tokyo

We found this famous shot in our archives of The Beatles arriving on a Japan Airlines DC-8-55 for a five-concert event in Tokyo. It was June 30,....More
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