Brimming with Confidence: Airline Pilot Caps and Cap Badges Now on View at San Francisco International Airport

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Brimming with Confidence: Airline Pilot Caps and Cap Badges Now on View at San Francisco International Airport
 

SAN FRANCISCO -- Brimming with Confidence: Airline Pilot Caps and Cap Badges, now on view at San Francisco International Airport, explores the evolution of the pilot’s cap from the protective leather helmet used in early open cockpits to modern Captain’s caps that, while no longer serving a functional need, symbolize the authority and professionalism of today’s airline pilots. 

On display are thirty-two caps and sixty cap badges from the 1920s to the present. Special attention is paid to how cap badges reflect an airline’s corporate identity.   Examples on view - from an early United Airlines badge depicting the company’s logo and route map (late 1930s); to an Olympic Airways badge with the five-ringed symbol of the Olympic Games (1970s); to Qantas Airways’ current badge featuring a kangaroo, emu and Southern Cross Constellation from the Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia (2008) - demonstrate this ongoing role of the cap badge.

Brimming with Confidence is located pre-security on the Departures/Ticketing Level of Terminal 1 through February 2009. There is no charge to view the exhibition.

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