Long Island Aircraft Crashes

1909-1959

Joshua Stoff

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN: 9781439631812
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

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

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• One - THE PIONEER YEARS 1909–1914
• Two - WORLD WAR I 1914–1918
• Three - THE GOLDEN AGE 1919–1939
• Four - WORLD WAR II 1939–1945
• Five - THE POSTWAR YEARS 1946–1959
• Six - TOWARD SAFER FLYING