Read Midway Airport (Images of Aviation) by David E. Kent Online
Midway Airport (Images of Aviation) Aspiring to be first in aviation, the City of Chicago considered each of its existing airfields to develop into its new, modern municipal airport.In 1903, Chicago fell in love with flying. Enterprisi
| Title | : | Midway Airport (Images of Aviation) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (952 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 073859850X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-25 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
In 1903, Chicago fell in love with flying. Enterprising people opened airfields and designed and built aircraft, and aviators won big money at air meets. After World War I, aviation was a serious matter with explosive commercial potential. A transcontinental airmail service was established and became the impetus for the first airlines. Aspiring to be first in aviation, the City of Chicago considered each of its existing airfields to develop into its new, modern municipal airport. It chose none of them and instead decided on a square mile of property 10 miles southwest of the city as the location for what would soon become the “World’s Busiest Airport.”
Images of America: Midway Airport contains images and stories from the Midway Historians, of which author David Kent is a founding member. The book captures the ethos and thrill of the Midway experience during a time when people dressed up for air travel or just visited the airport, dined at the Cloud Room, and gazed from Midway’s observation platforms at the incredible aerial ballet before them. It was a magical time, when flying off into the clouds in beautiful silver airliners meant traveling in style and following aviation’s romantic call. Today, Midway Airport remains a roaring, rumbling, bustling center of air transportation and the busiest square mile in the world.
From hotrod infancy in the 1920’s and 1930’s with Dry lakes racers, flats at Muroc, to the first drag strips, first speed shops, and first car shows, and more up to and including the 1950’s, “Hot Rod Gallery” by Pat Ganahl has pictures of it all.
Rare photos and many never seen before photos abound in this book such as Von Dutch pin striping a car inside and out, the first car shows, the first drag strips and more. He’ll be very impressed!. Not as complete as the title implies; really another formwork book.. David Kent has been collecting photos and stories about Chicago's Midway Airport for many years. Also sections for race and high performance tuning. Definitely worth it.. Covered many areas and ideas that were new to me (like rebar chairs and footing brackets), but I wish more coverage had been shown on dealing with hydronic tubing in slabs. I learned a lot and my dear hubby was ecstatic to learn that we get to keep the book! Go out an
Rare photos and many never seen before photos abound in this book such as Von Dutch pin striping a car inside and out, the first car shows, the first drag strips and more. He’ll be very impressed!. Not as complete as the title implies; really another formwork book.. David Kent has been collecting photos and stories about Chicago's Midway Airport for many years. Also sections for race and high performance tuning. Definitely worth it.. Covered many areas and ideas that were new to me (like rebar chairs and footing brackets), but I wish more coverage had been shown on dealing with hydronic tubing in slabs. I learned a lot and my dear hubby was ecstatic to learn that we get to keep the book! Go out an
Ebook Library Online is in no way intended to support illegal activity. We uses Search API to find the overview of books over the internet, but we dont host any files. All document files are the property of their respective owners, please respect the publisher and the author for their copyrighted creations. If you find documents that should not be here please report them. Read our DMCA Policies and Disclaimer for more details.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.