Here’s a great video from mosche56 & twacrew.com of some great video of TWA’s 747. Looks like this is promotional video from TWA, overlaid with some Bruce Springsteen music.
Some great footage of a great airplane.
Here is a TWA schedule from October 1992.
Interesting things about this schedule:
I’ve just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, so thumbnails aren’t working right now. Click below to see the pictures.
TWA October 1992 Schedule - Cover
Man, you gotta love the Holidays.
Of course, after all that, it’s time to go back to work, and that means trying to catch up. That is where I find myself right now.
While reading this thread on airliners.net, the topic of TWA’s order of the Airbus A330 came up. TWA was actually one of the first to order the plane, but of course, never recieved it.
In the thread, a link to transportarchive.org.uk includes this image of the A330 in old TWA colors. I remember seeing this picture, or one very similar, in an issue of Skyliner. Of course, I don’t know where that issue is, of course.
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Yes, it’s Christmas time. Time when flights are full, and winter weather in STL brings it down to one runway.
Good times.
In honor of the Holidays, I bring you, the TWA SkyMall catalog, Holiday 1993 edition.
Offering in-flight ordering (just dial *023 from the GTE Airfone) and a wide variety of gadgets for that loved one on the ground.
Some of the included favorites are Casio Personal Digital Assistant, which is about the size of paperback book, and goes for the low, low price of $699.95.
Or, the excellent WordPerfect 6.0. Yes, it was for DOS. Yes, it was $319.00, or $129.00 if you had an earlier version.
Included is the cover. Happy Shopping!
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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Me? Well, I spent it with family in beautiful Aztec, NM. Slightly colder than Arizona, but still good.
And, of course, I caught a cold. Oh well.
This update brings the original (probably not the original, per se, but one that seemed to be used most of the 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s.) TWA 727-231 safety card.
I always found these fascinating, in the true lack of detail. For example, in the window emergency exit pictures, it doesn’t show you want to do with the door once you remove it. Do you throw it out on the wing? Sit it in the isle? Leave it on the seats? Then again, I guess the newer safety card doesn’t really say either, but it implies you leave it on the seats. Oh well.
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Here’s the TWA schedule from December of 1994. Unfortunately, TWA stopped showing the route map with ‘lines’ showing the flights, so this one is just the cities server. Bummer.
BUT…
TWA did start to show flight numbers, and the equipment operating that flight. So that’s a plus. And since it’s the Holidays, and I’m a nice guy, I’ve included the equipment listing scanned at a higher resolution, so you can read it.
We’re heading out of town for the Holidays, so I probably won’t update until later next week. Enjoy!
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Here is the safety card from a TWA 727-231 (International). I believe the only difference between a regular 727-231 and an international version is the inclusion of life rafts aboard the aircraft. (Anyone have any idea on that, if so, leave a comment!)
This is the later version (early 90’s) of the safety cards, after they switched from the ‘plastic’ ones with the 1960’s drawings on it. I kinda liked those, but these definitely have more information on them than those.
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Here’s part 2 of 3 of TWA commercials featuring Peter Sellers.
Dig those 747 cabin colors.
Once again, thanks to TWAviator for providing these.
I received some comments that said, “Wow. Love the new website, but why is the header so generic?”
Well, it’s a long story.
Basically, before I created this website, I actually made a really cool header with a tail of a TWA DC-9 and the name of the blog. It looked really nice.
Then I was thinking, “Did I take this picture?” Well, it turned out, that I didn’t.
The picture that I used is actually located here, at airliners.net.
It’s very similar to a picture I took at STL of a DC9 tail, so I assumed it was mine.
Wrong.
I actually noticed before I put the site ‘live’, so no, I didn’t get sued or anything. But in the meantime, I put up the ‘generic’ header that you have been seeing.
Well, now I have a spiffy banner that has the classic late 1970’s - early 1990’s logo that TWA had. I have to admit, it’s my favorite. I’m sure that’s just due to me flying TWA a lot during that time in my youth, so that’s the color
scheme I attach to.
If you notice any weirdness on the website, please let me know!
Any comments?
