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Dallas Aviation

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Since Otto Brodie�s airplane flight at Fair Park in 1910, the city of Dallas has seen over 100 years of rich and diverse aviation activity. Many of those years were spent on a long and complex road to a consolidated airport for the Dallas�Fort Worth area, an impasse finally resolved with the dedication of Dallas�Fort Worth Regional Airport in 1974. Central to Dallas aviation history is Love Field, established as a military base in 1917. A waypoint for famous flights such as the first round-the-world flight in 1924, a venue for colorful characters like barnstormer and bootlegger �Slats� Rodgers, and the site of World War II�s largest Air Transport Command base�Love Field was all this and more. Although no longer the region�s primary commercial airfield, Love Field remains a major aviation facility as the home of Southwest Airlines and several internationally recognized business aircraft operations.

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Series: Images of Aviation Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.

Kindle Book

  • Release date: April 11, 2011

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781439624883
  • Release date: April 11, 2011

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781439624883
  • File size: 43564 KB
  • Release date: April 11, 2011

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

History Nonfiction

Languages

English

Since Otto Brodie�s airplane flight at Fair Park in 1910, the city of Dallas has seen over 100 years of rich and diverse aviation activity. Many of those years were spent on a long and complex road to a consolidated airport for the Dallas�Fort Worth area, an impasse finally resolved with the dedication of Dallas�Fort Worth Regional Airport in 1974. Central to Dallas aviation history is Love Field, established as a military base in 1917. A waypoint for famous flights such as the first round-the-world flight in 1924, a venue for colorful characters like barnstormer and bootlegger �Slats� Rodgers, and the site of World War II�s largest Air Transport Command base�Love Field was all this and more. Although no longer the region�s primary commercial airfield, Love Field remains a major aviation facility as the home of Southwest Airlines and several internationally recognized business aircraft operations.

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