Browsing: New York Aviation History
When a passenger approached his departure gate at the dawn of the Jet Age in the early-1960s and noted propellers…
Many small, independent airlines, which operated a handful of turboprop aircraft within a limited catchment area, were later propelled into…
Located in the mid-Hudson Valley, Newburgh’s Stewart International Airport (SWF), south of Kingston and some 65 miles north of Manhattan,…
Deregulation offered entrepreneurs opportunities to craft their own versions of airlines, which varied in concept, fare structure, and destination, and…
On Monday, June 10, Metropolitan Airport News Editor-in-Chief Julia Lauria-Blum had the honor of representing pioneering pilot Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Cochran,…
When technological innovations occur, someone or some company becomes the first to invent and introduce them, and others often follow,…
States carry associations. In the case of California, it is Hollywood. In the case of Colorado, it is the Rocky…
The third of eleven children, General Irene Trowell-Harris, was born in Aiken, South Carolina; she has fond memories of childhood,…
During an annual Black Pilots of America General Membership meeting, I had the privilege of interviewing one of New York’s…
Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were…