Alaska Airlines launches USSR service, a United DC-6 crashes in Pennsylvania, Pan Am begins round-the-world flights, Amelia Earhardt takes off on the world's first transatlantic flight by a woman, and more...
For a short time this past weekend, the sights and sounds of yesteryear returned to Floyd Bennett Field as fabric covered biplanes adorned the flight line, and the sound of radial engines filled the air at the annual Floyd Benn...