Browsing: New York Aviation History

Both birds and airplanes attain lift with wings. But one of the former species has none at all and is therefore…

Lower-demand, shorter-range routes inappropriate for larger-capacity aircraft dictated the types that could be operated during the first few decades of…

Internal need sometimes leads to external purpose. Midwest Express Airlines, a unique, post-deregulation carrier, successfully demonstrated this concept. From Corporate to…

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…