TRANS WORLD AIRLINES
1925-2001

TO THE FAMILY OF TWA....In Honor of You

This website is dedicated to each and every TWA employee who helped make it the great carrier it was.


....STORIES AND REMEMBERANCES.....

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DISCLAIMER: Almost everything written on these pages have been copy/pasted from emails, or media reports, we have recieved. All links are
media reports on the WWW. We invite you to email us with any contradictions if you know of errors. We will gladly add them or feel free to add them in the guest book.

Captain Girard words...
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this picture was taken at ORY right after c-82 received its FAA license N9701F in May 1960..42 years ago..I flew the flt test flts with FAA inspector Bob Meyersburg and Jim Beasley following which I checked out the FAA inspector and thereafter took the Flt Rating ride with Beasley..Pete Boe was with me and the flts were done at Reims airport ....
Claude Girard.unqte

TWA FIRSTS 1. FIRST TO FLY A TRIMOTORED AIRLINER IN THE U.S., THE FOKKER F-b (WAE, 1929). 2. FIRST FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AND FIRST IN-FLIGHT MEAL SERVICE (WAE, 1929). 3. FIRST ON-ROUTE WEATHER REPORTING SERVICE (WAE, 1928). 4. FIRST TWO-WAY RADIO COMMUNICATION (WAE, 1928). 5. FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL AIR-RAIL SERVICE (TAT, 1929). 6. FIRST TO FLY A FOUR-ENGINE AIRLINER, THE FOKKER F-32 (WAE, 1930). 7. FIRST ALL AIR COAST TO COAST PASSENGER SERVICE (TWA, OCTOBER 25, 1930). 8. FIRST AIRLINE TO ORDER, TAKE DELIVERY OF, AND PLACE IN SERVICE THE DOUGLAS DC-2 (1934). 9. FIRST AIRLINE TO FLY A PRESSURIZED AIRLINER, THE BOEING 307 STRATOLINER, IN THE U.S. (1940). 10. FIRST AIRLINE TO ORDER AND HELP DEVELOP THE LOCKHEED CONSTELLATION (1939-44). 11. FIRST DOMESTIC AIRLINE TO APPLY FOR AROUND THE WORLD ROUTE AUTHORITY, 1944. 12. FIRST SCHEDULED NONSTOP COAST TO COAST FLIGHT IN U.S.A. (EASTBOUND ONLY), LOS ANGELES TO IDLEWILD (OCTOBER 19, 1953). 13. FIRST TO OFFER "AIR COACH" SERVICE NONSTOP COAST TO COAST (1955). 14. FIRST TO ORDER THE FOUR-ENGINE CONVAIR 880 JET (1956). 15. FIRST AIRLINE TO SHOW IN-FLIGHT MOVIES (1961) 16. FIRST U.S. AIRLINE TO PROVIDE ALL JET SERVICE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC (1961). 17. FIRST WITH AUTOMATIC DOPPLER NAVIGATION SYSTEM (1962). 18. FIRST TO ORDER THE U.S. SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT (1963). 19. FIRST TO PROVIDE TRANSCONTINENTAL ALL CARGO JET SERVICE (1963). 20. FIRST TO OPERATE THE BOEING 747 JUMBO JET WITHIN THE U.S.A. (1970). 21. FIRST U.S. AIRLINE TO FLY A TWIN ENGINE AIRLINER (THE BOEING 767) ACROSS THE ATLANTIC (1985).

VINYL 78LP STEREO ALBUM

CIRCA.. PROB MID 60'S
SONGS OF CITIES WHEN TWA FLEW AROUND THE WORD SERVICE

BACK OF ALBUM..SHOWS TWA ROUTES

Songs. I Left my Heart in San Fransico, St.
Louis Blues, Chicago, Autumn in New York, Foggy Day in London Town, Auf Wiedersehen, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, An Amrican in Paris, Three Coins in a Fountain, Spain, Bangkok, Hong Kong