“I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I learned to watch, to put my…
A familiar and sometimes iconic site at airports across the globe, the air traffic control tower, celebrated its 100th birthday on February 28th. The world’s first air…
You could say Viola Gentry was a rebellious teen. In 1910, when she was just 16 years old, she had already run away to join the…
On June 12, 2001, a JetBlue airliner touched down at JFK International and taxied to its gate after a two-and-a-half-hour flight north from West Palm Beach.…
Only a few nautical miles from Idlewild Airport; Rockaway Airport debuted on July 16, 1939, and was originally called the Edgemere Airport. The airport was opened…
“I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability, but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has…
The journey of Mitchel Field was similar to most of the closed as well as the currently operating airports on Long Island.* They all had their…
Long Island may not be the birthplace of aviation but it is certainly the birthplace of international air travel. On the morning of May 20, 1927,…
Jackie Cochran climbed to 45,000 feet in a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet, leaving a contrail of ice crystals behind her path. Achieving the highest altitude necessary,…
Holmes Airport existed for about eight years, from 1929 to 1940, and was located in Jackson Heights, approximately a half mile southwest of the current site…