Long Island Aircraft Crashes : 1909 - 1959

by Stoff, Joshua

• ISBN13: 9780738535166
• ISBN10: 0738535168
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781439631812
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Arcadia Pub
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Summary

During the first fifty years of American aviation, Long Island was at the center of aircraft innovation and flight. There were more aircraft manufacturers and airports located on Long Island than in any other part of the United States. Due to the extraordinarily high volume of air traffic, Long Island also led the country-if not the world-in aircraft crashes. Long Island Aircraft Crashes: 1909-1959 portrays the daring flights, accidents, and mishaps of pioneer pilots, and the conditions that contributed to many crashes. Long Island ultimately saw the earliest air-traffic control systems, airport lighting, aviation weather reports, paved runways, and professional flight schools.Long Island Aircraft Crashes: 1909-1959 contains captivating images from Mitchel Field and Roosevelt Field, the two most active airfields on Long Island. In addition to airfield activity, this book illustrates some of the first experimental flights over Hempstead Plains; military training at Hazelhurst Field; the L.W.F. Owl bomber (the largest landplane of its time); the world's first instrument-guided flight; and Amelia Earhart posing with the new Sperry Gyropilot.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(2)
The Pioneer Years: 1909--1914	9	(8)
World War I: 1914--1918	17	(14)
The Golden Age: 1919--1939	31	(56)
World War II: 1939--1945	87	(8)
The Postwar Years: 1946--1959	95	(24)
Toward Safer Flying	119