Tag: Roosevelt Field
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Cradle of Aviation Exhibit: Roosevelt Field Aviators at the Mall
Roosevelt Field Aviators: Exhibit will be on display at the Roosevelt Field® shopping center from through March 13th.
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Mystery Friday Foto #1 Solved: A 1956 aerial over the Meadowbrook Parkway Extension
The Cradle of Aviation challenged you to identify another aerial.
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Mystery Friday Foto #27 Solved: An amazing 1951 aerial over Roosevelt Field and Mitchel Field
My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to solve this holiday Mystery Foto.
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Cradle of Aviation Archives: An amazing 1936 aerial of the Motor Parkway, Roosevelt Field and Roosevelt Raceway
Through the joint efforts of the Cradle of Aviation and VanderbiltCupRaces.com, treasures of Long Island history continue to be uncovered including this 1936 aerial.
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Hot Post Alert & Update: Beneath the shadow of wings: Mitchel Field and the Motor Parkway (1924-1948)
Author/historian Paul R. Martin III is working on the first ever comprehensive history of Long Island's Mitchel Field "Beneath The Shadow of Wings". The aerials from Paul's website have resulted in 37 Comments and 42 East Meadow Facebook Comments and counting.
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A rare 1936 amateur film of airplanes at Roosevelt Field
Earlier this month I purchased a 19-minute amateur 16 mm film of the 1936 and 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Races. A big surprise was this rare one-minute color clip of airplanes taking off and landing at Roosevelt Field.
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Mystery Foto #6 Solved: The Open-Air Roosevelt Field Mall in 1957
Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto?
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A 1936 flying car, Roosevelt Field and a Tucker engine
Joel Friedman, archivist of the Cradle of Aviation, has forwarded these exclusive Roosevelt Field photos of one of the first attempts to build a flying car... later linked to a Tucker engine.
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Mystery Foto #47 Solved: A 1956 Aerial of the Motor Parkway Behind Stewart Field in Garden City
Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto from the Cradle of Aviation Archives?
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Exclusive: VanderbiltCupRaces.com and Cradle of Aviation to Digitize Thousands of Previously Unpublished Long Island Historic Photos
I am pleased to announce that VanderbiltCupRaces.com and the Cradle of Museum have reached an agreement to digitize thousands of negatives and glass plates that will further document the history of Long Island.
Bob, the plates were purchased by members of the Wheatley Hills Golf Club and Links Golf Club. Both clubs had private…