#twa

[flyingprivate]

“Connie” Lockheed Constellation L-1649A Starliner,

One of only four of its kind left in the world, at TWA Hotel, New York,

Courtesy: Stonehill Taylor

[goshyesvintageads]

Trans World Airlines, 1951

[retropopcult]

Mary Tyler Moore at Kennedy International Airport, February 1964

[pretty-little-fools]

[domusinluna]

Stunning travel posters by David Klein for TWA

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[gameraboy2]

TWA Germany Advertising Poster (1960s) by David Klein

[facts-i-just-made-up]

How many airplanes are transgender

This just makes me miss TWA, they'd always let me in the cockpit and show me all the controls, and often gave me a pilot's wings pin. Free peanuts, kind people, low fares. American Airlines bought them up around 2000ish. Most people don't remember them now, but in their day, they flew quite some beautiful planes-

[thelowlandbench]

[forever70s]

Teen magazine, January 1970

[humanoidhistory]

A trip to the Moon via TWA rocketbus in Spacecraft by Michael Jay, 1983.

[goshyesvintageads]

Trans World Airlines, 1954

[retropopcult]

Monorail station at the Disneyland Hotel, 1966

[pretty-little-fools]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Amelia Earhart christens a TAT Ford Trimotor, "The City of New York," at Pennsylvania Station, July 7, 1929. Watching is Police Commissioner Grover Whalen (left). In keeping with Prohibition, the bottle contained Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale. Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), later TWA, was inaugurating its first transcontinental air passenger services from coast to coast.

Photo: FPG/Getty Images/Fine Art America