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From the Delta Archives: Unique Air Sickness Bag
Check out one of my favorite items from the Delta Archives! It’s an airsickness bag, but also onboard entertainment from the mid-1960s, before we had audio headsets and movies on flights. One side of the bag has a gin rummy score pad; the other side has a fun “Aviation Quiz” testing passengers with questions about Delta history and the early [...]
From the Delta Archives: ATL “Jet Base” in 1960
You know our aircraft hangars you see from the Atlanta airport runways with the neon “Fly Delta Jets” sign? They’re just one part of an enormous maintenance complex, our Techical Operations Center (TOC), which opened as a new Jet Overhaul Base in December 1960. This photo shows the “Fly Delta Jets” sign being installed on the roof in 1968: O [...]
From the Delta Archives: Speeding Snowbirds South in 1946
Vacationers looking for a fast escape from harsh winter weather, celebrated when Delta became the first airline with non-stop Chicago-Miami service on November 1, 1946. For $59 one-way, you could board a big, four-engined Douglas DC-4 aircraft with “44 roomy seats” and fly an average speed of 218 miles per hour. Flight time to the “Sunshine State” was a speedy 6 [...]
Calling all Widget Heads!
Got your attention, didn’t it? Always wanted an excuse to post this Western ad (Western merged with Delta in 1987). We want your input on the Delta Museum website’s new Delta Aircraft History section! Now under construction, it will feature all aircraft types flown by Delta way back to our crop-dusting days. We are posting cool facts about Delta [...]