Overview :Constructed closer to Manhattan than the commercially unsuccessful Floyd Bennett Field, LaGuardia Airport was conceived in the mid-1930s as ... Read More
Overview :Long Island is a natural airfield. The central area of Long Island s Nassau County known as the Hempstead Plains is the only natural prairie... Read More
Overview :John F. Kennedy International Airport opened in 1948, after the realization set in that the newly built LaGuardia Airport was unable to hand... Read More
Overview :During the first fifty years of American aviation, Long Island was at the center of aircraft innovation and flight. There were more aircraft... Read More
Overview :One of the greatest industrial feats of World War II -- indeed of all time -- was the massive production of military aircraft by American ma... Read More
Overview :In 1961, after the United States had acquired a total of fifteen minutes of spaceflight experience, President John F. Kennedy announced his ... Read More