Long Island Aircraft Crashes: 1909-1959 (Images of America) by Joshua Stoff

By Joshua Stoff

through the first fifty years of yank aviation, ny used to be on the middle of plane innovation and flight. there have been extra airplane brands and airports situated on ny than in the other a part of the U.S.. a result of terribly excessive quantity of air site visitors, ny additionally led the country-if now not the world-in plane crashes. ny airplane Crashes: 1909-1959 portrays the bold flights, injuries, and mishaps of pioneer pilots, and the stipulations that contributed to many crashes. big apple eventually observed the earliest air-traffic regulate platforms, airport lights, aviation climate studies, paved runways, flight faculties. ny airplane Crashes: 1909-1959 comprises appealing photos from Mitchel box and Roosevelt box, the 2 such a lot energetic airfields on manhattan. as well as airfield job, this e-book illustrates a few of the first experimental flights over Hempstead Plains; army education at Hazelhurst box; the L.W.F. Owl bomber (the biggest landplane of its time); the world's first instrument-guided flight; and Amelia Earhart posing with the recent Sperry Gyropilot.

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