My Friend, the Invincible Teresa James
On June 12, 2001, a JetBlue airliner touched down at JFK International and taxiied to its gate after a two-and-a-half-hour flight north from West...
Rockaway Airport
Only a few nautical miles from Idlewild Airport; Rockaway Airport debuted on July 16, 1939, and was originally called the Edgemere Airport. The airport...
Alexander de Seversky and The Renaissance of American Airpower
“I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability, but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I...
Mitchel Field
The journey of Mitchel Field was similar to most of the closed as well as the currently operating airports on Long Island.* They all...
Long Island’s Roosevelt Field
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,...
Jacqueline Cochran
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...
Holmes Airport
Holmes Airport existed for about eight years from 1929 to 1940 and was located in Jackson Heights, approximately a half mile southwest of the...
Flushing Airport
Flushing Airport was one of New York City’s early municipal airports and was located only a mile east of present-day LaGuardia Airport.
Opened in 1927...
Glenn Curtiss Airport
If the photo map of Glen Curtiss/North Beach Airport appears to be in a familiar place; you’re right. The airport is on the same...
The Flying Hutchinsons
The 20-year period between World War I and World War II, commonly referred to as the ‘Golden Age of Aviation’, was an exhilarating era...