SFO Museum’s SST show lauds revolutionary airplane’s legacy

American Airlines Boeing 2707 SST model aircraft, circa 1970. Scale 1:72, plastic, metal, paint. Collection of Anthony J. Lawler, L2022.1702.002
American Airlines Boeing 2707 SST model aircraft, circa 1970. Scale 1:72, plastic, metal, paint. Collection of Anthony J. Lawler, L2022.1702.002
American Airlines Boeing 2707 SST model aircraft, circa 1970. Scale 1:72, plastic, metal, paint. Collection of Anthony J. Lawler, L2022.1702.002

SAN FRANCISCO — The SFO Museum is now presenting Supersonic Transport: The First Generation, an exhibition on the legacy of the first-generation SSTs (supersonic transports) through aircraft models, airline flight attendant uniforms, meal service sets, photographs, and video excerpts from the 1976 British Airways promotional motion picture Transatlantic Supersonic. It of course features the one SST that gained enduring global fame — the Concorde — and displays models for rival planes that never came to be. Supersonic Transport: The First Generation is on view through November 12.

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Hundreds of Salem Witch Trials documents get new home

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, PEM’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO (left), and Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd (right) examine the Witch Trial documents from 1692. Image courtesy of PEM. Photo by Kathy Tarantola.
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, PEM’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO (left), and Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd (right) examine the Witch Trial documents from 1692. Image courtesy of PEM. Photo by Kathy Tarantola.
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, PEM’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO (left), and Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd (right) examine the Witch Trial documents from 1692. Image courtesy of PEM. Photo by Kathy Tarantola.

BOSTON (AP) – Hundreds of court documents from the 1692 Salem Witch Trials are being transferred from the Salem museum where they have been stored for more than four decades to the newly expanded Judicial Archives facility in Boston.

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