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Showing posts with label Aviation history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aviation history. Show all posts
Monday, June 12, 2023

What you didn't know about Goodyear blimps in South Florida, always a WOW

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  Goodyear Blimp 1980 State Archives of Florida/Hastings Goodyear Blimp Base 1500 NE 5th Ave., Pompano Beach, Fl 33060 Passenger rides no lo...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Arthur Burns "Pappy" Chalk and Chalk's Flying Service, once oldest in the world

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Chalk's seaplane landing 1974  State of Florida Archives   By Jane Feehan The history of his eponymous airline is better known than the ...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Aeromarine Airways launches flying boat service in 1920s: breakfast in Miami, lunch in Nassau, dinner in Palm Beach?

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  Flying boat used by Aeromarine in 1920 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feehan Flying boats. Flying luxury boats. That’s ho...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Merle Fogg: Fort Lauderdale's first aviator a man of several firsts

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Merle Fogg Florida State Archives/Florida Memory   By Jane Feehan    Fort Lauderdale’s first airport, Merle Fogg Field, opened on an abando...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Celebrated Graf Zeppelin lands in Miami with big plans

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Graf Zeppelin arriving at Opa-Locka naval base Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feehan The German-built airship, th...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Why Fort Lauderdale was the last major city in Florida to get northern air service

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By Jane Feehan Once a nine-hole golf course, then the  Merle L. Fogg Air Field in the 1920s and the Naval Air Station in the 1940s, ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Mackey Airlines, its colorful founder ... and Fort Lauderdale

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Mackey 1972 destinations -  Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feehan Fort Lauderdale’s Mackey Airlines played a leading ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum: a salute to the missing of Flight 19 and ...

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Fort Lauderdale News , Dec. 6, 1945; newspaper displayed at Naval Air Station   Thirteen more airmen were lost in a search for the missi...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Flying Clipper service: Only six days from Miami to Buenos Aires

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Pan Am flight routes 1936 By Jane Feehan For those who bemoan flights today over the Atlantic to reach Europe or parts of South ...