Vintage TWA Transcontinental Western Air 707 and similar items

Up for bid is a used vintage TWA Transcontinental Western Air 707 Operations Manual Part II Dates on the pages range from 1960s The letterhead of the pages indicate the manual was used at TWA's Flight Operations Training Center, which was located at 1307 Baltimore, Kansas City, Missouri. Located at the southeast corner of 13th and Baltimore was an eight-story structure that was utilized by TWA to train pilots, flight attendants, and other personnel from 1957 to 1988. The company used the building for a variety of training operations along with the Breech Academy in Overland Park. This facility included a training center named in honor of aviation pioneer and TWA founder Jack Frye, which included numerous replicas of aircraft equipment, from cockpit simulators prior to the creation of computer graphics to emergency and maintenance equipment. Here, thousands of pilots learned to utilize instruments on board Boeing 707s and other aircraft that were flown around the world. The company also used this building to produce educational materials, including films such as the one at the bottom of this entry. In an era where pilots needed to be familiar with mathematical rules