Here’s a great video from Tom Vance/Vapor Trails Video. This is an L1011 taking off from SFO in the early 90’s.
Little trivia: I used to live in San Bruno just across from the TWA hangar, the 101, and the railroad tracks back in the early 80’s. Good times. I also remember playing hide and seek in some of the 707 cargo containers they used to have next to the TWA hangar there, while we were waiting for the crew bus a few times.
Sorry for the delay in updating. Just been pretty busy, and haven’t had as much time to update as I’d like.
Here is a later commercial from 1989. I remember this era, when TWA’s slogan was “Find out how good we really are”.
Just posted that last entry, and noticed that it has been a year now since I started TWAhistory.com!
Just wanted to say thanks to all the readers! It’s great the number of people that find us by searching for the history of TWA, and I’m proud to continue a small part of it!
In the past year, I’ve posted 72 entries, and I hope to post another 72 and more.
I’d like to once again say if anyone out there has any TWA items they’d like to share with other enthusiasts, please send me an email to comments@twahistory.com.
Thanks for reading us!
Here is a link to a video Google by Tom Vance/Vapor Trails Video. It’s from July of 1994, and has a TWA 767 landing, followed by the L-1011. Love the L-1011 landings.
Enjoy!
Sorry for the delay in updates; it’s been quite hectic for me, and updating the site is just one of those things that fell by the wayside.
Today, I have the May 1998 schedule.
This is one of the latest schedules I have in my collection, actually. I don’t think I even have one that is later than this.
It was interesting to see all the new service that TWA was touting: new flights from St. Louis to Anchorage, and increased service to many existing destinations.
I’ve also included the flight itineraries that they so thoughtfully included in the back, as well as the terminal maps for STL and JFK.
(Click images for larger versions.)
Today I’m showing one of my EBay finds: A 1961 TWA Bond for $1000.
This bond was issued in 1961 and would pay the amount on June 1st, 1978.
Unfortunately, my flatbed scanner is just a bit too short to fully scan this, so the bottom is cut off. Sorry about that.
Today I present the 1991 version of the L1011 safety card.
Love the in flight photo on the front. Classic.
You might recall this entry, where I talked about a visit I had to JFK from PHX. I went mostly to take pictures of JFK, and especially, TWA aircraft, since we here in PHX only saw the occasional L1011 usually, with a lot of 727’s and MD-80’s.
Here are a few more pictures from that trip.
Here is a TWA 747, N133TW (Fleet #17133), ex-Iberia.
Another TWA 747, N134TW (Fleet #17134), also ex-Iberia.
Other 747, but do not know the tail number. Tried to be artistic with this picture, if you couldn’t tell.
Finally, here are a couple close ups of some TWA L-1011’s. This was always my favorite aircraft. Enjoy!
This update is the front page from the December 18th, 1992 issue of the employee newsletter, TWA Skyliner.
This was the issue that talked about the infamous removal of Carl Icahn. With this, Carl loaned TWA $200 million dollars to keep operating, among other things.
Unfortunately, I had to scan the front page in two parts, as my scanner isn’t large enough to scan newspapers in one sweep.
Enjoy!
Thanks to ampicoab at YouTube, we have a video that documents the last flight of TWA’s 727.
Of course, a little trivia: This plane is the one that was involved in the infamous TWA Flight 840 hijacking in Athens.