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A silver bullet that turned camping into a chrome cathedral on wheels.
means A flowing current of air, whether the wind over an aircraft wing or — capitalized as Airstream — the iconic riveted-aluminum travel trailer.
from A plain compound of 'air' and 'stream,' the second from Old English 'strēam,' a flowing body of water, later stretched to mean any steady flow. As a brand name, Airstream was coined in the 1930s by Wally Byam, who wanted his trailers to suggest gliding along 'like a stream of air' — the polished aluminum skin borrowed straight from aircraft fuselage techniques of the era.
- founder
- Wally Byam built his first in his backyard, 1929
- survival rate
- Roughly 70% ever built still roll today
- riveted skin
- Aircraft aluminum construction borrowed straight from airplanes
- moon quarantine
- Apollo astronauts isolated in a modified Airstream
- caravan club
- Owners convoy across continents in glinting silver herds
airstream flying cloud — 1931 silver bullet trailer designed by wally byam that revolutionized rv travel
airstream international — current production line still manufactured in jackson center, ohio since 1931