Dec 5, 03:28 AM
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air
On a frigid December morning in 1909, a pair of innovative inventors launched mankind into the skies for 12 seconds, and just a decade later Queens was joining the race to fly, in days when what is now John F. Kennedy Airport was just a golf course and LaGuardia Airport was a beach-front amusement park.
Numerous small airfields, like Holmes Field in Jackson Heights, peppered the borough following the Wright brothers’ accomplishments. Some of these Queens fields were home to other notable achievements, like the first transatlantic flight that was launched in 1919 from Rockaway Naval Air Station (later Jacob Riis Park)... more
