Presenters Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly wait backstage at the RKO Pantages Theatre during the 1956 Academy Awards.
In a picture that captures the violence and sheer destruction inherent in war perhaps more graphically than any other ever published in LIFE, Marines take cover on an Iwo Jima hillside amid the burned-out remains of banyan jungle, as a Japanese bunker is obliterated in March 1945.
Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727-2J7, “Ixtapa” N128NA, date of manufacture: 1974, at LAX circa August 1987. A Mexicana Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is in the background.
Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727; “Puebla”, circa 1981.
Mexicana Airlines advertisement; circa September 1961. The The classic De Havilland Comet 4C jet appears in the photo.
Compania Mexicana de Aviacion ordered three Comet 4Cs in October 1959. Mexicana became the first Mexican airline to operate jets, taking delivery of the first Comet on January 14, 1960. The Comet entered revenue service on the Mexico City-Los Angeles route on July 4, 1960 billed as Azteca de Oro (Golden Aztec). The type would also serve main routes to Chicago, New York, San Francisco and San Antonio. The type was relegated to domestic service in 1967 before the type was retired from the fleet in December 1970, replaced by Boeing 727s.
Mexicana Airlines Airbus A319 “Durango”; XA-UAQ; MMMX Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juarez, circa April 2002.
Mexicana Airlines A320; at CUN airport, Cancun, Mexico, circa 2008.
Mexicana Airlines Airbus A320; N368MX; at CUN airport, Cancun, Mexico, circa 2008.
Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727-200; “Puerto Vallarta” XA-DUJ. LAX
Mexicana 727-200.
Mexicana Boeing 727-200; LAX circa 1992.
Dina Olimpico; Pullman de Morelos.
Dina Olimpico; Flecha Amarilla.
Dina Olimpico; ADO.
Dina Olimpico; circa 1975. Pullman de Morelos.
