TWAHistory.com

(With a little nod to Peabody’s Improbable History.)

If you haven’t visited the website archive.org, you need to. It’s pretty amazing to be able to visit websites the way they were years ago, before Java and Flash took over sites. Just see here what Apple’s website looked like on October 22, 1996, or to see what CNN’s website looked like on that tragic day, September 11th, 2001. It’s a great site.

At the same time, you can see what TWA.com looked like, back in the day. For example, here is the earliest home page you can see, from July of 1997: (Click image for larger version):

It’s amazing how web pages have changed, isn’t it?

Someone even registered twahistory.com back in July of 2001, a few months after TWA and American Airlines announced the merger. Weird, eh? They never did anything with it, though.

I invite you to poke around the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. It’s very interesting! If you find anything cool, post a link in the comments section.

TWA.com on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

After featuring the 727-231 (International) and the 727-231 (Domestic) safety cards, here is the 727-31 safety card. I don’t think this version of the card was around much. The date on the back of the card indicates it was made in May, 1991. If you view the larger image, you can also see where someone ‘touched-up’ the “Trans World Airlines” text on the side. Didn’t do a great job at it, though.

According to my copy of R.E.G. Davies “TWA: 75 Years of Pioneering Progress”, the 727-31 pictured on the cover, N842TW, was introduced in Jan 1966, and sold to Gulf Air in November 1988. So this plane wasn’t even in the fleet at the time of printing! Looking at the list, the last 727-31 was retired to Kansas City in December 1993 (N855TW and N844TW).

I’ve only scanned the front cover of the safety card, as it’s exactly the same as the other 727’s.

Also, here is a picture I took in St. Louis around 1991 or 92. This is when I was still in High School, and taking photography at school. Obviously I liked to take aviation pictures, but they’re really not the greatest. Also the fact that a cat I once had loved to eat my pictures. (Must have been the chemicals. He was a weird cat). Need to pick up a negative scanner someday.

Enjoy! Click on the images for a larger version.

Yep, we’re back!

We had a few days in beautiful Flagstaff, AZ. Then, returning to the nice and hot Phoenix, we enjoyed a few Spring Training games. Now, it’s back to work. And, of course, updates.

Today’s update is a video that’s making the rounds. It’s documenting the last flight from London Heathrow to JFK. Of course, as you may know, Icahn sold these routes to American Airlines. Oh, the irony.

Enjoy!

Sorry for the delay’s in getting an update out.  It’s been busy around the household, and haven’t had time to update my websites lately.

Next week I will be out of town in beautiful Flagstaff, AZ.  So I won’t be able to update until late next week.