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	Braniff History - The Early Years
		Braniff International’s history can be traced back to 1928, when Oklahoma insurance man and financier Thomas E. Braniff, organized and founded an aviation company with his brother Paul Revere Braniff, a former WWI pilot.
		A new independent Braniff airline operation was incorporated in Oklahoma City on November 3, 1930 under the name of Braniff Airways, Inc. Tom Braniff served as president and Paul Braniff served as secretary-treasurer.
		In 1959, Braniff entered the jet age with the introduction of Boeing 707 and British BAC-111 jets in 1965.
	www.braniffinternational.org /history/history1.htm (747 words)

	Dallas Historical Society - Dallas History: Braniff in Brief, 1928-1992
		Braniff revolutionized the concept of how an airline should look and operate, and in the process created an industry legend.
		Braniff focused its attention on the war effort during the early Forties.
		Braniff entered the jet age in 1959 introducing Electra Prop jets and then the Boeing 707-227.
	www.dallashistory.org /history/dallas/braniff.htm (600 words)

	The History of Braniff International Airways
		May 12, 1982 was the sad and fateful day Braniff Airways ceased all operations, thus ending sixty four years of distinguished and pioneering airline service.
		Braniff International was a pacesetting and pioneering airline that revolutionized the art of flying.
		It is operated as a not-for-profit educational resource, for the general public, friends and former employees of the original Braniff Airways (1928-1982).
	www.braniffinternational.org (305 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		In 1930 Braniff Airways was incorporated and went public as a subsidiary of the Universal Air Lines System, with Paul Braniff as secretary-treasurer and Thomas Braniff as president.
		Braniff was close to insolvency when the United States Post Office awarded it an airmail route between Dallas and Chicago in 1934.
		By 1948 Braniff routes were opened to Ecuador, Panama, and Cuba, and in 1952 Braniff International merged with Mid-Continent Airlines, thus adding thirty-two routes to the twenty-nine domestic and nine international routes the company operated at the time.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/epbqm.html (1496 words)

	Blogway Baby: Medicine for the Fabulous Invalid \| Braniff Airlines: The World's Greatest Airline?
		Braniff Airways is the inspiration behind the airline Venus Airlines in my musical, Plane Crazy.
		She hired the designer Alexander Girard to redesign Braniff terminals and repaint its planes, and she hired Emilio Pucci, himself a "bomber" (he flew missions in WWII), to design new stewardess uniforms.
		Braniff stewardesses were soon accepted as the best-looking women in America, leggy birds of paradise in their bright Pucci plumage, feathery exotics who might have picked up their colors on one of Braniff's South American flights (routes exclusive to Braniff).
	www.blogwaybaby.com /2005/02/braniff-airlines-worlds-greatest.html (1089 words)

	Braniff Remembered
		Braniff sought advise from an advertising agency to change its image into something dynamic and Mary Wells came up with the "end of the plain planes" campaign.
		Braniff tails, stored engine-less at Miami and with sandbags on the wings to prevent them from flying away on the winds of Hurricane Andrew...
		The Hyatt company bought Braniff out of this bankruptcy and a new Braniff emerged in 1984; the fleet only consisted out of Boeing 727s and the route network was limited to US domestic services.
	www.ruudleeuw.com /rem-braniff.htm (696 words)

	The Charles Beard Years - The Braniff Pages
		Braniff dubbed these new planes "the El Dorado" fleet and painted an "El Dorado" crest on the aft fuselage with a quote reading, "Serving The Americas." An additional perk on these flights was Braniff's new Silver Service.
		Braniff used these new Boeing 707-227 "El Dorado" Super jets on the Dallas-New York and the Dallas-Chicago routes and were inaugurated in 1959 from Dallas Love Field's Yellow Concourse.
		Braniff put in a bid early, and saw this as an opportunity to be the only United States to South American carrier.
	www.braniffpages.com /1954/1954.html (2518 words)

	Braniff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Braniff Airways which was Texas-based, had a lot problems piled up during the early 1960s.
		His analysis of what Braniff needed was "combination of modernizing the fleet, and improving its services, and changing its marketing approach.
		Because Braniff was unknown in the big cities and known as a small-town airline in the little ones, she decided to emphasize that Braniff was a big, long-distance, international airliner giving the domestic operation an aura of excitement, authority, and power.
	www.ciadvertising.org /studies/student/96_fall/lawrence/braniff.html (401 words)

	CONCORDE SST : Braniff Concorde Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		British Airways, at the behest of their insurers were forced to fly a captain and flight engineer as cockpit observers for US segments as in reality the aircraft were still BA owned for insurance purposes.
		14 Braniff pilots (3 captains, 5 First offices, 4 flight engineers, a check pilot and check engineer) were trained in both France and the UK to operate Concorde, not just at the subsonic speeds that their services would operate at but also up to its Mach2 cruising speed.
		Braniff terminated Concorde services at the end of May 1980 due to the high cost of operating the service with load factors at only 20%, coupled with Braniff's general financial woes at the time.
	www.concordesst.com /history/events/braniff.html (447 words)

	Thomas E. Braniff \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Braniff received his first airmail contract from the federal government in 1934, four years after founding Braniff Airways.
		In 1952, Braniff acquired Mid-Continent Airlines, which made Braniff Airways the sixth largest airline in the U.S. and the twelfth largest in the world.
		Braniff built a $35 million dollar airline, the only major airline named for an individual.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/93 (57 words)

	Braniff International Airways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Braniff International Airways (IATA: BN, ICAO: BNF, and Callsign: Braniff) was an American airline that existed from 1928 until 1982.
		Both Braniff and National were chosen after Greatamerica CFO C. Edward Acker identified them as particularly poorly managed companies (which was not the case); as part of the acquisition, Acker became Executive Vice President and CFO of Braniff as well.
		Harding viewed Braniff as a "backwater" airline — despite the facts that the airline had routes from North Dakota to Argentina, and was already the 11th-largest airline in the world—and sought to re-image Braniff into his "vision".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Braniff_Airways (2752 words)

	Dallas Historical Society - Dallas History: Braniff Airways Fashion Designer Pucci
		Difficult to hear in, and not altogether popular with the hostesses, the space helmet-style bubble headdresses were used primarily for publicity purposes.
		With inspirations drawn from heraldic symbols and the hues of the Italian landscape, the dashing Italian aristocrat was well known for his rich colors, supple fabrics, and dramatic prints.
		Between 1965 and 1974 he produced six distinctive hostess uniforms for Braniff International Airways that revolutionized the airline industry and still affect the design concept of flight attendant uniforms today.
	www.dallashistory.org /history/dallas/pucci.htm (365 words)

	AAHS Vol. 46 No. 3 - Fall 2001
		The first Braniff was founded on June 20, 1928 by brothers Thomas E. and Paul R. Braniff.
		The company's name was Paul R. Braniff, Inc. The first service was a daily round trip, with a five-place 90 mile-per-hour Stinson Detroiter, flying the 116 mile route between Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
		On November 3, 1930 a new airline was incorporated as Braniff Airways with T. Braniff as president.
	www.aahs-online.org /BackIssues/v46n3.htm (2284 words)

	Fred Cox DC-8 Jet Collection - BN DC-8-62
		Braniff Airways was created in 1930 by brothers Paul and Tom Braniff.
		The Boeing 727-200 (N408BN), the backbone of Braniff's domestic fleet, was introduced that year as "The Flying Colors of The United States" and was painted in "wild" stripes of red, white and blue.
		Sadly, though Braniff was brilliant in their marketing with these colorful paint schemes, after deregulation they made the fatal mistake of expanding way too fast and then collapsing due to over-capacity in most of their markets during a time of recession in the world economy.
	www.dc-8jet.com /bndc862red-dfm.htm (923 words)

	Virtual Poster Museum - Tourist Central: New York: 16. Braniff Airways - New York - Wher 1950s
		Not so when this poster was made for Braniff (the signature appears to be Wher, but is partially illegible).
		The image is less interesting as a draw to the destination and more interesting in its details -- a rooftop swimming pool, the shadow of the airliner, a pair of men looking up at the plane from another rooftop (a spectacle for them in the 1950s, a potentially terrifying sight in this day and age).
		Braniff was a small regional airline with enough Latin American routes to be made into a force by act of Congress -- wanting to keep Pan Am from gaining a monopoly on service to Central and South America, the government made sure Braniff was there to compete.
	ordinaryleastsquare.typepad.com /photos/nyc/braniff_new_york.html (198 words)

	The Braniff Family - Flying Memories!
		To enhance the memory of Braniff International Airways, a Braniff Friend is offering a $25,000 challenge grant to former employees, their families, and friends of Braniff.
		The matched grant would place the name "Braniff Airways Chapel" over the entrance to the existing chapel in Terminal B (the former Braniff Terminal).
		The 2004 Braniff Reunion is going to held on May 16, 2004 12:00 pm until 5:00 pm.
	thebranifffamily.org (2280 words)

	The Braniff Family - Events & News
		The Braniff Family is not stating knowledge of this case or guit in anyway.
		I was a passenger on a Braniff flight that landed at Oklahoma City or Tulsa or Norman, OK in 1996, 97 or 98.
		By the way, The Braniff Family is a legally registered nonprofit with the State of Texas and we are in the process of registering with the IRS, currently we are registered with the IRS as a C corporation, but we hope to be a reclassified as a nonprofit corporation soon....
	www.thebranifffamily.org /events.asp (11125 words)

	TIME.com: The South American Way -- May 22, 1950 -- Page 1
		Not till Braniff got the State Department, which was considering economic assistance to Argentina, to do some diplomatic stiff-arming for him did President Perón decide to play ball.
		Although Braniff bought planes and expanded north to tap the rich traffic at Chicago, Kansas City and Denver, he kept right on losing money.
		Braniff finally lost the Mexican routes when he made the Mexicans mad by sounding off against local government officials.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,812528,00.html (744 words)

	TIME.com: New Course for Braniff -- Feb. 19, 1965 -- Page 1
		Dallas-based Braniff Airways never went in much for the frills with which most large U.S. airlines woo the customers.
		Braniff, for example, is a leader in the fight against in-flight entertainment.
		Even before his Greatamerica Corp. bought control of Braniff last summer and installed him as chairman, he had carefully compared Braniff's record with those of five other airlines of comparable size.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,940974,00.html (739 words)

	Braniff International Airways, History - braniffpages.com
		Hattie is an accomplished poet and writer, and is a Maritime historian in the County Kent (near Canterbury), England.
		Braniff employees were invited to attend the September 16th "Wings and Wheels" event.
		Watts' article on the history of Braniff Airways in the August issue of Air International Magazine.
	www.braniffpages.com (510 words)

	Braniff Airways Trip One Douglas DC-2 NC13727 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By 1936, Braniff Airways was a well-established airline, having been founded in Oklahoma City by Paul Braniff and his brother, Tom.
		The first Braniff flight with a DC-2 took place on 1 June 1937, in ship number NC13727.
		Nearly two years later, NC13727 was being operated as Braniff's Trip One, from Chicago, IL, to Dallas, TX.
	okwreckchasing.com /nc13727.html (291 words)

	History of Braniff
		Braniff Air Lines was founded by Oklahoma City insurance man Tom Braniff and several other partners, including his brother Paul.
		November - Braniff Airlines became Braniff Airways, Inc. A clause in the incorporation papers stated that as long as an airline operation was maintained, it must keep the name of Braniff.
		Braniff's new Boeing hostess uniform was worn on the inaugural flight 707-227 on December 19 and were referred to as "jet jackets".
	www.clippedb.org /history_braniff.htm (8453 words)

	1975 commercial - Braniff Airways - The Supersonic Future VideoSift
		In this 2-minute commercial, Braniff Airways gives us a glimpse of the wonderful future to come, in the form of supersonic air travel.
		There were just a few things they didn't figure on: The exclusivity and eventual failure of Concorde jets, the growth of global terrorism which would require increased pre-flight screening, and the biggest thing of all: that Braniff Airways wouldn't survive to the end of May, 1982.
		At the end of each “South Park” episode, there is a Braniff plane flying by.
	www.videosift.com /story.php?id=9668 (422 words)

	Braniff Airways Postcards
		This checklist of postcards that show Braniff aircraft is by no means complete.
		Those who have Braniff cards not listed here are invited to submit images and descriptions to expand this list.
		I'm told that the second plane is a Braniff.
	www.postcardpost.com /braniff.htm (413 words)

	AAHS V46N3, Fall 2001 - Braniff Int'l Airways Propeller Aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Braniff received it July 10, 1937 and it was drafted by the USAAF on June 1, 1942 as a C-32A (4261095).
		Photos and images found on this Web site are the property of the American Aviation Historical Society or have been reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
		They are presented here solely for your interest and education and may not be used or otherwise reproduced without the written permission of the American Aviation Historical Society.
	www.aahs-online.org /BackIssues/Imagev46n3_3.htm (105 words)

	Airfix 1/144 BAC 1-11
		Braniff Airways subsequently doubled it's order to 12 aircraft while Aer Lingus ordered 4 aircraft.
		Western Airways ordered 10 aircraft but later it was cancelled.
		Braniff took delivery of their first aircraft N1543 on 11 March while Mohawk Airlines took their first aircraft on 15 May. Deliveries continued to take place and by the end of 1965 34 aircraft had been received by their customers.
	modelingmadness.com /scotts/civil/bac111preview.htm (887 words)

	Braniff International Airways pictures from aviation photos on webshots
		Braniff International Airways pictures from aviation photos on webshots
		Braniff was and still remains the most colorful airline in the history of the business.
		Many 1/400 scale models have been produced recalling the days of the andquot; Long gone are the days of the most colorful airline in history, Braniff.
	community.webshots.com /album/128945966KZxQAE (225 words)

	Airliners.net Photos: Braniff International Airways Boeing 727-27
		A collection of photos of all Braniff livery variants.
		Braniff International JELLYBEANS :D by member BRANIFF place
		The most beautiful colourscheme Braniff ever adopted out of the other wonderful Braniff liveries
	www.airliners.net /open.file/228497/M (128 words)

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