#Sabena

[vintagepromotions]

'To Poland by Sabena'

Poland travel poster by Sabena, the Belgian national airline (c. 1950).

[almostarts]

Sabena, Chairs, set of three, Mexico, c. 1955,

Walnut, iron, brass,

24 h × 21 w × 30 d in (61 × 53 × 76 cm)

22¼ h × 31 w × 30 d in (57 × 79 × 76 cm)

22½ h × 28 w × 26 d in (57 × 71 × 66 cm)

Courtesy: Wright20

[monkeyssalad-blog]

"Gay Belgium" Night and Day at the Worldfair, Sabena, 1958. by Halloween HJB

[bigglesworld]

Bristol 170 Freighter. Sabena

[dekaydk]

SABENA, the Belgian airline, was notoriously bad, to the point that some wit came up with the name being an acronym for Such A Bad Experience, Never Again.

I do not know if that person was Katherine Hepburn.

your ruthless efficiency in disembarking from this aeroplane has captivated me mademoiselle

[retrotourism]

[thegikitiki]

The Ideal Traveling Companion...

Stetson Sabena Ad, 1960

[girlactionfigure]

[germanpostwarmodern]

The S3 Armchair (1958) designed by Alfred Hendrickx for Sabena

[whitedogblog]

"SABENA is an acronym for The Societé Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne was Belgium's national airline. Founded in 1923, SABENA operated flights to European destinations as well as Belgian colonies. This stylish 1938 poster, advertising the the Savoia-Marchetti engine, magnificently conveys the idea of speed and modern technology. "

SABENA / RAPIDITÉ. 1938. L. Keizer. Studio E.L.K.A. The plane is a Savoia-Marchetta SM.83.

[vintagepipemen]

Werner Spies, station manager for Sabena Belgian Airlines in Frankfurt, Germany, 1986.

[bigglesworld]

Nord Air Express

[brianfrench1995]

Dubrovnik Airport Postcard - 
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JAT and Sabena Caravelles

@postcardtimemachine

[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 2141: PP-VOA, Boeing 747-341, Varig, Frankfurt-Main, May 13, 1988.

With three units delivered in 1988, Varig was the only customer of the Boeing 747-300 in the Americas, while all other customers either were European (KLM, Sabena, Swissair, UTA), African/Middle Eastern (Egypt Air, Saudia, South African Airways) or Asian/Pacific (Air India, All Nippon, Cathay Pacific, JAL Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Thai International).

[elmax0]

Remember what we lost 🥺

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.13 (after 1940)

1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. 1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. 1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls. 1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy. 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. 1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. 1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York. 1978 – Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. 1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. 1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. 1996 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre). 2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944. 2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. 2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. 2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. 2021 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. 2021 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.