Davies R.E.G., Machat M. TWA: An Airline and Its Aircraft

Paladwr Press, RockVille, MD, 2001, 116 p. — ISBN: 1-888962-16-X.This book captures both the mundane and the historical. Superbly illustrated throughout with B&W photographs, maps and fine colour drawings by Mike Machat, this is an excellent history of TWA airline and their aircraft.Post Office Prelude
Western Air Express Begins
The Four Horsemen
Douglas M-2
Veteran Elegance
The Way It Was
The Model Airway
Fokker F-10
Flying Boats to Avalon
Rocky Mountain Route
Standard to Texas (and Beyond)
Along the Northwest Coast.
Hanshue Builds a Network
Fokker F-32
The Shotgun Marriage
Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor
Transcontinental Air-Rail
Port Columbus
Maddux Air Lines
Ford 4-AT Tri-Motor.
The Grand Plan of.
Transcontinental & Western Air.
The Competition Curtiss
Condor CO
Air Mail Scandal
Historic Prototype
Start of a New Era
Douglas DC-2
Single-Engined Swan Song
Lockheed Vega 5 and Orion 9E
The Ubiquitous Gooney Bird
Douglas DC-3
More and More DC-3s
The Douglas Twins
Enter Howard Hughes
Stinson A (tri-motor) (Marquette)
Above the Weather
Boeing 307B Stratoliner
War Effort
Post-War Reconstruction
The Cabin Crews
Flight Deck Memories
Atlantic Service
Douglas DC-4
Secret Weapon
Lockheed Constellation 049
TWA's Constellation Fleet
Lockheed Super-Constellation 1049G
Fairchild C-82A Packet
Lockheed 1649A Starliner
Constellation Scrapbook
Constellation Commentary
DC-3 Replacement
Martin 202
The Second Line
Martin 404
Prelude to the Jet Age
Boeing 707-131.
The Boeing 707-100
Fleet A New Era
The Boeing 707-300 Fleet
Boeing 707-33lB
Speed at All Costs
Convair 880
Atlantic Number
One Howard's End
SST and the Second Line
Boeing 727-31.
Caravelle, Concorde, Boeing 2707
TWA's First Short-Haul Jet Fleets
Douglas DC-9-14
Stretched to the Limit McDonnell
Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82)
Workhorse Jet Boeing 727-231
Wide-Bodied Era
Boeing 747-131
More Range Boeing 747SP
The Big Tri-Jet Lockheed L-lO I J
TriStar I
The Long-Haul Twin
Boeing 767-200ER
Into the 1970s
Local Service in the Midwest
Ozark's DC-3 Replacements
(Martin 404)
Regional Status
Early Air Tax Links
More Connections
(Jetstream/Fairchild Metro III)
Troubled Times
Into the 21 st Century
Lest We Forget
TWA Miscellany
The Family Tree