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Preparing for Takeoff: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
In the mid-1920s, when the U.S. Post Office Department proposed to expand its daily transcontinental airmail service by adding nighttime flights, the City of Cleveland raced to build a well-lit airfield that would meet the night pilots’ needs. The result was the nation’s first municipal airport and the birth of modern air traffic control.
Preparing for Takeoff: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
In the mid-1920s, when the U.S. Post Office Department proposed to expand its daily transcontinental airmail service by adding nighttime flights, the City of Cleveland raced to build a well-lit airfield that would meet the night pilots’ needs. The result was the nation’s first municipal airport and the birth of modern air traffic control.
Preparing for Takeoff: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Brown, Jeff L. (author)
Civil Engineering Magazine Archive ; 83 ; 48-51
2016-01-01
42013-01-01 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1940
| British Library Online Contents | 2003
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1929
Online Contents | 1998