1 There are an increasing number of New York-area airports, including those involving long-Iceland, Westchester County and New Jersey, but few are able to name the very first airport in New York. Even fewer are able to explain why it no longer exists. The airport is located at Floyd Bennett Field, and has had three different historical periods.
Trace its origins to the historic Lindbergh, New York-Paris flight solo, she had the world by the fact that leave the aircraftNew York at all, but instead of Long Island, and that the only true "New York" airport had on the state border, was in New Jersey. Thus the need for an exhibition, New York neighborhood, municipal airport, was designed to create a panel of famous aviator Clarence D. Chamberlain for a suitable site for a survey.
The following selected route, a 387-acre wetland south of Iceland at a bar in Brooklyn, New York, a small community had put aHorse-rendering plant, and according to the above, a single dirt landing strip bars Iceland Airport, which was owned by Paul Rizzo and was used for the periodic-passenger sightseeing flights. The site, part of 33 small islands, has had favorable winds, missed approach obstacles that had been largely free of fog and coverage for future growth. The airport, a state-of-the-art gateway to what was seen as one of the largest cities in the world, had the name "FloydBennett Field "Brooklyn-based and naval aviator who served as Richard E. Byrd 's historic North Pole flight pilot in 1926. Both had received the Congressional Medal of Honor for performance.
Construction, an increase of the city Department of Docks, coincidentally occurred on October 29 in 1929, pumped the same day that the stock market collapsed and took the connection of the islands by filling the channels with interspersing six million cubic meters of sand fromthe bottom of Jamaica Bay and the consequent increase in altitude 16 feet above tidewater, to connect it to Long Island.
Track 15-33, spanning 3100 feet, and Track 24/06, had set up the airport at 4,000 meters, the first topographic construction projects, along with a track. During the two years between 1929 and 1931, four pairs of hangars were also increased from the previous swamps: interior measures 120 by 140 feet, the buildings on steel trusses, arched roofs,Floor slabs of concrete and wooden platforms and has been supported by concrete piles 45 feet long.
A neo-Georgian style, brick reds and blacks, two-story administrative building, completed in 1931, was among the now expanded, the airport accessible to Flatbush Avenue and take-off and landing strips were blocked, and possession of a semi-octagonal three-story, stand control project on top of glass and steel. The building had served as a passenger terminal.
Floyd Bennett Field, which hadwas given the three-letter code of "NOP", 26 June 1930 had been conducted in the middle of a flight of 600 armed U.S. Army Air Corps flight of Charles Lindbergh and Jimmy Doolittle and accompanied by a strong 25,000 paying spectators . Its modern terminal, paved runways, and his: the airport, which was officially opened, a year after May 23, 1931, had the U.S. Department of Commerce A-1-A rating, the highest so far for her art facilities, where the lighting for the nightOperations.
These facilities and attracts a growing number of famous "Golden Age" drivers like Wiley Post Jacqueline Cochran, Roscoe Turner, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, and Clarence Chamberlain has allowed them to start or stop, speed and distance traveled here because Flights of its strategic location along the east coast and take-off and landing strips, which had allowed a lot of weight of fuel begins to run.
You need this expansion. In 1936 he had two runways were morecompleted: 3,500 meters and 3,200 meters Runway 1-19 Runway 12-30. The original runway 15-33 to 3,500 meters had been extended to this date. Between 1936 and 1938 was the Works Progress Administration of additional service between each wing hangars house workshops and maintenance of the plants built.
Although Floyd Bennett Field was the United State's second largest airport, opened two years later, with 51 828 takeoffs and landings annually, some of them hadestablished commercial operations that are normally transported passengers, baggage, cargo and mail. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia had repeatedly tried to establish the plant as a new principle Yorker Municipal Airport, ripping the role played in Newark, New Jersey, but the incremental revenue passenger had then only to the profitability of the carrier and not a part of it, such as e-mail, and since the U.S. Postal Service had refused to transfer its New York operations centerFloyd Bennett Field Newark, the airport could never viable commercial plant will be presented during their training. Unlike American Airlines temporarily move ', was left in the first general aviation airport.
However, the most important chapters of the Golden Age of aviation had been written here. Between 1931 and 1939, ten major cross-country and 16 had trans-Atlantic and around the world, all the flights originated or terminated from the swamp to the concreteappendaged transformed patch south of Brooklyn.
In July 1931, for example, had a Bellanca CH Pacer, a high-wing aircraft from a single, 300-horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine driven J-6, has established a distance record of 5,011.8 miles, if, after Floyd Bennett Field flew to Istanbul, Turkey. On 29 August the following year, had a Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior Waddell-powered Williams a new transcontinental speed record of 10.19 hours based on their flight to Los Angeles. InJuly 1933, Wiley Post was a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine, called the Lockheed Vega "Winnie Mae" around the world in seven days, 18 hours, 49 minutes and 30 seconds flew. He was also the first in the world alone, to go to around 15596 miles in four days, 19 hours and 36 minutes was.
Ala had stretched from Brooklyn to the Middle East. In August, for example, a Hispano-Suiza-powered Bleriot had flown the 110 5,657.4 miles in Syria in 55 hours.
In 1934, eightTransatlantic flights from Floyd Bennett Field was gradually improved and many of those transcontinental occurred. Major James H. Doolittle, evidence of a cyclone-powered American Vultee Wright had a record for a transcontinental passenger transport category aircraft, the completion of New York to Los Angeles-area 11.59 hours. A second category of records has been shipping in April of this year, when a TWA DC-1 was from Burbank to 11 hours, 5 minutes, 45 seconds has been reached flown. DouglasDC-1 later established 22 world speed records from Floyd Bennett Field with a high gross weight, the simulation of payload and range commercial transport.
A year later, April 21, 1936 Howard Hughes had an inter-city speed records set, as he powered the Wright Cyclone Northrop range between Brooklyn and Miami in 4 hours, 21 minutes 32 seconds of flight. By the end of the year in the month of October has had a flash of an engine Bellanca Pratt & Whitney Wasp driven, flownNewfoundland and London-Croydon in 13 hours, 17 minutes.
Howard Hughes, with the focus again in 1938, was a Lockheed Electra 14N delivery of two Pratt & Whitney-powered 900-hp Wright Cyclones, piloted on a record circumnavigation of the globe, completing the flight in three days, 19 hours, 8 minutes and 10 seconds.
Perhaps the most famous flight failure, or so the argument goes, even before, is that in July, when Douglas Corrigan, who has denied permission to flyEurope has submitted a flight plan in effect in California. After starting in his Curtiss Robin, a 165-horsepower Wright Whirlwind J-6-powered engine, the plane non-stop went to Ireland in 28 hours, 13 minutes, presumably because of the "compass difficulties," said the earned him the nickname "Wrong Way Corrigan."
The Germans had Floyd Bennett Field in 24 hours, 50 minutes, 12 seconds, flew in August 1938, when their Focke-Wulf FW-200 prototype, which is powered by four engines of 875 hp Hornet, which hadIntersection of Berlin. The return trip was 19 hours, 55 minutes, 1 second is completed, Wiley Post suggests record of five and a half hours.
Despite all this activity, the first municipal airport in New York will be developed as a gateway impressive most fascinating cities in the world, never in the normal position, a general aviation airport will take place. Several reasons could be cited why.
a). Flatbush Avenue had served as the only reason is access.
b).Newark Airport had more transport connections are available in Manhattan.
c). The airport had started construction and is trying to operate within the Great Depression.
d). Air travel had not yet been accepted as public transport.
s). Air travel costs were prohibitive for the general public.
f). On October 15, 1939, the 558 acres, had two $ 45 million Municipal Airport, at the site of the old North Beach Airport, and then closer to Manhattan, has beendedicated. Would later become La Guardia Airport.
g). Floyd Bennett Field second place, large areas of Idlewild Airport, is also found in Jamaica Bay would also be constructed as soon as possible.
The U.S. postal service is March 22, 1936 marked the rejection of Floyd Bennett Field Air Terminal application's largest airport and the final sentence of death.
Floyd Bennett Field last commercial flight, which started May 26, 1941, but with war clouds drape over large partsthe world, had shown more of rain from them, had assumed a new purpose.
2 expansion was triggered by the U.S. Navy who first Floyd Bennett Field Hangar 1 Hangar 5 and above, had engaged in any of the $ 9,000,000 sale of the airport from the city of New York, was due, and June 2 1941, is back as "Naval Air Station, New York."
Because of its proximity to New York and Long Island Marine aircraft manufacturers, Chance-Vought of the GeneralEngine, and Grumman was able to prove logically the closest airport and ferries to take their designs to their respective theaters of war, processing everything from amphibious patrol aircraft to the carrier-based fighters and bombers. Until 1943 the process was completed in just three days.
The war has had a significant expansion of airport infrastructure is needed. The original track 15-33, for example, 4,500 meters, the track had T-10 has been extended to 1942. Thesecond runway was built to 6-24, was the same in traffic routes and T-1 T-2 has been converted and was replaced by a new runway of 5,000 meters with the same titles magnetic compass. Runway 19/01 was also extended to 5,000 meters this year and then the airport would be longer, when it was extended to 7,000 feet. Runway 30/12 and was extended to 5,000 meters, and still later, at 5,500 meters.
In addition to fixed-wing aircraft has been the activities of the Navyfounded the first helicopter training center at Naval Air Station in New York for air-sea rescue helicopters with Sikorsky R-4, with the practical tasks occurred directly from the airport in Jamaica Bay. Army Air Corps, Coast Guard, Navy and Royal Navy pilots had trained all this before he was sent to the China-Burma-India and Pacific theaters.
PBY Catalina patrol aircraft and the other had regularly flew from Naval Air Station in New York to escort and protectShips carrying equipment for the Lend-Lease program of the underground German U-boat.
To sea or women Exceptional Volunteer Service Accept, direct traffic to and from the airport to operate radio equipment in the control tower.
During the Second World War, the Air Station, as the basis for many of the unity of the Atlantic fleet, three patrol squadron, submarine, a scout watch service units and two Naval Air Transport Squadron served, had the busiest and most hadtreated more than 46,000 aircraft.
The airport was to play a post in reserve role in the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and had served as the basis for the National Air Guard during the Cold War. It was also the position of civilian pilots, mechanics and flight engineer training was.
If all of these military conflicts were ultimately resolved, however, had degraded the air station gradually purpose.
3 Discontinued and is no longer active, both asCommercial or general aviation airport, was transferred in 1972, Floyd Bennett Field at the National Park Service, part of Gateway National Recreation Area's. Includes one of the largest urban park in the National Park System, there are three units in two countries: the Jamaica Bay Unit in Brooklyn, New York, the Staten Island Unit in Staten Island, New York, and the Sandy Hook Unit in New Jersey.
Floyd Bennett Field, only air activity, except for an occasional air show, is thatNew York City Police Department, their Bell Jet Ranger helicopter fleet based here and uses a portion of a track former track for operational purposes. As a helicopter landing pad, there is a "NY22".
Four of the eight original hangars had re-adjusted award in 2006.
The first administration building / Passenger Terminal, now William Fitts Ryan Visitor Center is called, opened to the public, and even though its halls and rooms offer little moremay interpretive displays and a small gift shop, we have the concrete stairs to climb on the facade of the building where the passengers of taxis, buses and cars had been transferred, and enter the main lobby, the position of the passenger check-in was plants. After application and a weight of luggage and receive a directory board, then they had left the rear doors to the balcony overlooked observation that propeller airplane wheel on the ramp and had to waitAccess from mobile boarding ladder. Shopping bags from the cellar was clearly inclined ramp and onto the field for the plane itself was wheels. The control tower was directly above them, on the tip of the terminal.
Although the building is now silent and deserted, you can still make sense in the era of recorded history has there been, the life of the scenarios adopted in this and thus facilitated. His silence tells her story ironically, as the line of contrast betweenwhat was and what was not.
Its internal roads, when Floyd Bennett Field runway and taxiway infrastructure wear, but their magnetic compass headings, and may be freely distributed.
Compared to the Visitor Center, on the east side and at a considerable distance on the former runway 24/06, is a more accessible public building, hangar, the Navy during World War II built for his four-VRF basis of a Naval Air Naval Air Station in New York Ferry Command squadrons, which hadwas to prepare a training facility for Naval Air Reserve pilots and ground personnel for the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Now, using the National Park Service, the volunteer-in-Park Historic Aircraft Restoration Project Program (ARPA), dedicated since 1995 to preserve the history of aviation in Floyd Bennett Field and the interpretation of his role, houses a collection of fixed and rotary wing aircraft that make the airport two times, its basic municipalAirport and its function was 1931-1941 Naval Air Station 1941-1971 and the five services that had operated on him, the Air National Guard, the New York City Police Department, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy.
Floyd Bennett Field, a small piece of land that had been transformed from a swamp to cement, and had played an important role in the Golden Age of New York and eras Air Force, has been reduced to silence and inaction as it is nowShadow of the substitution, JFK International Airport, the mulitple takes, Europe offs related matter of routine, a shadow from which European flights, as shown in irony. As such, he acted as a stage, where a short but important part of New York has served in aviation history, so that only his memory and his impact, yes, in fact, demonstrating the true purpose of the Planet saying that if a life cycle is completed and has met hisFor the fact that only pave the way for those to follow, but it can never be reused.
