The dawn of the aviation age opened up a world of possibilities for the passenger transportation industry. The first American commercial airline flight in a fixed-wing plane took place on New Year’s Day in Miami in 1914. Though excitement about aviation quickly reached a fever pitch, the early generation of airplanes had severe limitations whenContinue reading “Seadromes: Ocean landing strips for airplanes seemed like a good idea for a time”
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The worst accident in LAX history took place miles away from the airport itself
The 80th anniversary of the first commercial flights at Los Angeles International Airport will arrive this December. The former Mines Field west of Inglewood became the city’s first official airfield, Los Angeles Municipal Airport, on Oct. 1, 1928, but the first commercial flights to use the facility didn’t do so until Dec. 9, 1946. ItContinue reading “The worst accident in LAX history took place miles away from the airport itself”
Aircraft firm based at Torrance Airport created an innovative crop duster in the 1950s
Until I heard from Carlos Gomez, I hadn’t given much thought to agricultural aviation, more commonly known as crop dusting, and its relation to the South Bay. Gomez mentioned that his father Antulio once worked as an engineer for Transland, a company based at the Torrance Airport that built the AG-2, one of the firstContinue reading “Aircraft firm based at Torrance Airport created an innovative crop duster in the 1950s”
