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The Little Airport That Could: La Guardia’s Tri-Jet Heavies
The NYCAviation.com domain name was purchased in the Spring of 2003. That year saw the birth of our message boards, a listing of short news events, and our first article that September. In terms of...
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Fred Noonan: More Than Just Amelia Earhart’s Navigator
Early aviation history is no stranger to outsized personalities and tall tales, but the story of Amelia Earhart’s attempted around-the-world flight and subsequent disappearance is perhaps the most...
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Gustave vs. the Wright Brothers: Who Was Really First?
(A version of this article was originally published on thepublichistorian.net. It’s used here with permission.) Today, we celebrate the 111th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ famous first flight....
View ArticleAn Ode to the Observation Decks at JFK
You might notice the silhouetted figures of several individuals on the roof of the building above and behind the photo of this Pan Am DC-8-33 taken in the 1960’s. They are members of the public...
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The World’s Last Martin 202 Lives… in New Jersey!
One of the few remaining vestiges of the golden age of piston powered air transport in the New York area can be found in the outside display yard of a small air museum in Teterboro, New Jersey. The...
View Article“The Wings of Man” at Walt Disney World
Many visitors to the early days of Orlando’s Walt Disney World in the 1970s and 80s may remember a Tomorrowland ride called “If You Had Wings.” Like many of the attractions of that era, it was...
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