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Mechanics And Handicraft
Issue: Oct, 1937
Posted in: Architecture, Aviation, Impractical
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Posted: 02/18/2013
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Airplane Field for Tall City Buildings (Oct, 1937)

This is one of those incredibly bad ideas that everyone seemed to have at the same time. Maybe it had to do with the coincidence of a fad for aviation and one for skyscrapers. Whatever the reason, they never really address the catastrophic consequences of a crash, nor the problems of traffic management.

Airplane Field for Tall City Buildings

New invention is expected to solve the problem of providing aviation facilities for large cities. Platforms are designed to operate on the roofs of large buildings and permit happy landings and easy take-offs.

AN invention of J. Herbert Jones of Brooklyn, N.Y., is expected to revolutionize the problem of airplane landings and take-offs in restricted areas, such as on the tops of large buildings, decks of ships, water fronts along the coast, or small land areas.

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Science And Mechanics
Issue: Feb, 1936
Posted in: Aviation, War
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Posted: 12/12/2012
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Underground Nests for War Airplanes (Feb, 1936)

Underground Nests for War Airplanes

THE next war, all agree, will be a war in the air; and the advantage will be with the force striking the first blow. Obviously, the attack will be made on the fixed air bases of the other army, since that will inflict most damage from a military point of view.

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Mechanix Illustrated
Issue: Jun, 1945
Posted in: Aviation, War
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Posted: 09/21/2012
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ROLL OUT THE: BURLAP! (Jun, 1945)

ROLL OUT THE: BURLAP!

by Gilbert Paust,
Mi’s Aviation Editor

The “stamplicker” rolls out long strips of coated burlap to form the latest in synthetic airstrips, the U.S. Army’s “Hessian Mat.”

A FACTOR in Allied victories on the Western Front has been the availability of airstrips for our fighters directly behind the battle lines.

Thanks to a new type of mat which resembles tar paper, Army engineers have been able to lay these emergency fields in record- breaking time.

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Mechanix Illustrated
Issue: Dec, 1941
Posted in: Aviation
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Posted: 05/30/2012
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Back Alley Airport (Dec, 1941)

Back Alley Airport

Requisitioning of most of the private airports in and around New York City by Uncle Sam has more or less put the blight on private flying. However, here’e one airport that is determined not to let national defense throw it for a loss.

Joe Alta and his Alta Fliers, unable to obtain quarters at any one of the established fields, took over a vacant lot in the suburbs, and now they’re going strong again.

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Modern Mechanix
Issue: Apr, 1931
Posted in: Aviation
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Posted: 04/10/2012
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New German Developments in Airport Lighting Devices (Apr, 1931)

New German Developments in Airport Lighting Devices

TWO much needed aids to night flying have recently been developed in Germany. The first of these is the illuminated wind vane. The old type wind-sock was, of course, invisible at night, and almost so in daylight unless its location was familiar to the aviators using the airport. The new vane, on the contrary, may be seen for miles.

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Mechanix Illustrated
Issue: Dec, 1952
Posted in: Aviation
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Posted: 01/12/2012
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Why Don’t We Build… FLOATING AIRPORTS (Dec, 1952)

I love that they made the airport look exactly like a giant version of the plane. Obviously the next step was to make floating airports for flying airports.

Why Don’t We Build… FLOATING AIRPORTS

Then when the inevitable crash occurs, it will be on open water and not a crowded city such as Elizabeth, N. J.

By Frank Tinsley

THE modern four-motored air transport is a flying fire bomb. It takes off with about 5,000 gallons of high test gasoline with the explosion potential of T.N.T. In 90 per cent of all crashes, this liquid dynamite either goes off with disintegrating force or is showered over a wide area in a flaming rain that sets fire to everything it touches. That this can be a deadly menace to people living around air- ports is shown in recent statistics. The Greater New York area alone has suffered five such crack-ups in a period of four months.

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Mechanix Illustrated
Issue: Oct, 1956
Posted in: Aviation, Impractical
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Posted: 01/03/2012
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COMING: Rooftop Airports (Oct, 1956)

COMING: Rooftop Airports

Runway-less air terminals, VTOL’s will greet air travelers of 1965.

STRANGE-looking craft that take off and land on rooftop airports, operate via automatic flight instruments and controlled by electronic traffic cops are some of the things in store for the air traveler of 1965. Dream stuff? Not according to Civil Aeronautics Administration experts who made the above predictions. Many such planes are already working models or on drawing boards. Limited runway space will mean more and more vertical takeoff and land (VTOL) ships in the air. Passenger planes will have tilting wings and power plants on a horizontal body and will rise and land like helicopters. Skyscraper roofs will be the “fields” for the aircraft of tomorrow.

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Modern Mechanix
Issue: Sep, 1931
Posted in: Aviation, Impractical
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Posted: 02/18/2010
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London to Build Mid-City Air Port (Sep, 1931)

London to Build Mid-City Air Port

WITH the rapid growth of airplane transportation, the air port of the future may be moved up into the center of the city where it will be easily accessible. A bold step in this direction has been taken by Charles Clever, a London architect, who has constructed a model for a proposed airport to be located in the heart of London. The landing field consists of four runways arranged in the form of a giant wheel, the entire structure being supported by the buildings over which it is erected, as illustrated.

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Popular Mechanics
Issue: Mar, 1941
Posted in: Aviation
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Posted: 02/14/2008
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“Grand Central” of the Airways (Mar, 1941)

“Grand Central” of the Airways

By Allen Warren Elliott

ON a misty morning a little more than a year ago, one of the most remarkable industrial babies ever born was ushered into existence almost exactly in the geographical and population center of New York City.

The industry was aviation and the infant was La Guardia Field, already something of a whopping prodigy because $40,000,000 had been spent to make it the largest port of the skies, bigger than anything England, France, Russia or Germany could offer.

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Popular Science
Issue: Nov, 1939
Posted in: Aviation, Impractical
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Posted: 01/06/2008
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Skyscraper Airport for City of Tomorrow (Nov, 1939)

Skyscraper Airport for City of Tomorrow

WHAT the metropolitan skyport of tomorrow may look like, as conceived by Nicholas DeSantis, New York commercial artist, is shown in the illustration below. His remarkable proposal, embodied in a model that he has completed after five years’ study of the project, calls for a 200-story building capped by an airplane field eight city blocks long and three blocks wide. A lower level of his “aerotrop-olis,” as he has named it, offers a port for lighter-than-air craft. Hangars for planes and airships occupy the top fifty floors.

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