Trans World Airlines
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Trans World Airlines was a trunk carrier, a scheduled airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Weste
A Boeing 747-131 of TWA at Heathrow Airport in 1984
Lindbergh Line DC-2
A Lockheed 12A, used by TWA as an experimental/test aircraft
A TWA Douglas DC-3 is prepared for takeoff from Columbus, Ohio, in 1940.
Howard Hughes
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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifet
Trans World Airlines
…With American, United, and Eastern, it was one of the "Big Four" domestic airlines in the United States formed by the Spoils Conference of 1930. Howard Hughes began to acquire TWA stock in 1939 and held a controlling interest by 1944. After World War II, Hughes led the expansion of the airline to serve Europe…
Hughes in 1938
Hughes in April 1912
Hughes's house
Hughes on the cover of Time magazine, July 1948 (with the Hughes H-4 Hercules in the background)