Image of the Week: 1934 Delta/Eastern Schedule
Browsing through the Delta Archives for exhibit images, I turned up this wonderful 1934 joint schedule from Delta and Eastern for travel from New York to Dallas via Atlanta. Click here to see front & back. In the same folder with the schedule was a perspective on air travel by longtime Delta engineer Art Ford in [...]
Wrap Up: Delta Museum Collectibles Show/Sale
We really enjoyed hosting this year’s Airline Collectibles Show and Sale in Atlanta on October 17th. Close to 700 aviation memorabilia vendors, collectors and enthusiasts of all ages joined us in Delta’s Historic Hangars 1 and 2, and we raised over $16,000 for the non-profit Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum. Visit the Museum’s Flickr page [...]
Image of the Week: Amelia Earhart
Famous aviator Amelia Earhart is once again in the public eye this weekend with a new movie starring Hilary Swank as Amelia and a major exhibit at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. What you may not know is that Earhart was briefly part of Delta history through our merger with Northeast Airlines in 1972. We have several images of her [...]
Delta Museum Airline Collectibles Show, Sale
Are you an aviation collector or always wanted to be? Bring your family and friends and come out to the 23rd Annual Atlanta Airline Collectibles Show and Sale. Hosted by the Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum, the event takes place Saturday, October 17 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in Delta’s historic aircraft hangars. Fifty vendors will offer [...]