The importance of the College Park Airport in Maryland 2

Also in 1927, managing the airport has been shut down George Brinckerhoff, which was instrumental in the inclusion in the golden age of aviation, conducting extensive pilot training and staging frequent air shows, the latter in particular has presented was the introduction of image flights.

One of the aircraft most frequently featured at these shows, should have been the 110th Monocoupe Powered by a 145-hp Super Scarab engine piston, high-wing, 1611 kilos of aircraft, with a length of 20.8 m and 32 m span, was fast, efficient, was smooth and streamlined for its day and about 120 to reach - at a speed of 148 mph. He won many speed records in College Park races and meets in the air.

The two-seater, tandem-arranged Taylor J-2 Cub, led four years later, in 1936, had contributed in this period. The good-natured, high-wing trainer with a length of 22.5 meters and 35.2 meters span, had a gross weight of 970 pounds and was 87 km / h speeds, with his single, 40 hp Continental A-40 to reach the engine. Used Brinckerhoff for flight training during a period of 30 years had become the epitome of such private pilot trainer at general aviation airports throughout the country.

Another popular coach, three years later and with improved performance, had the Taylorcraft CL-65. In contrast to the tandem-seat configuration of the J-2, the agreement side-by-side twin was facilitated lessons. The high-wing, air wheel, with a length of 22 feet and 36 feet, flow-related tissue, had a 65 hp Lycoming O-145 were fed with piston engine and a gross weight of 1,150 pounds, were 102 - mph maximum speed reached.

Another provision College Park-indication, the Aeron 65LA "Chief", had applied sky Maryland in 1940. Equating the Taylorcraft speed, had a 65 hp Continental C-65 engine was fired and contained a maximum weight of 1,250 pounds. Only 87 of the type were produced.

During the Second World War had the Women's Air Service Pilots or wasps, trained in College Park, Maryland civilian pilot training program, so they do not struggle to get air duties.

The Boeing Stearman PT-17, an open cockpit two-seater biplane instrumental for the training of pilots, who often competed and performed stunts in the air during the tendering period 1927-1964 Brinckerhoff. to reach the plane, with 24.10 meters long and 32.2 m span, was the 220 hp Continental R-670 radial engine was powered with a maximum gross weight of 2717 pounds, was 124 km / h speed. More than 8,500 in 11 different versions had been produced for the Army, Navy, and various countries.

An aircraft registered N8NP and piloted by Gus McLeod, was the first open-cockpit biplane flying over the North Pole. Starting Gaithersburg, Maryland, in April 2000, had not penetrated and having sub-zero temperatures in the shipment of 13 days provided the last lap of the bar, was on 17 April but mechanical problems forced them to land. The pilot, returning the following month with the necessary replacement battery, found that the ice floe on which they are located about 80 miles towards Norway.

After repairs, the Stearman had to Nunavut in Canada before flying weather hampered the prosecution.

The Ercoupe 415d, the Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO), Henry Berlin had designed himself founded in 1932, was a low-wing uses a tricycle landing gear and twin vertical fins, which were tested in College Park. Powered by a 85 hp Continental A-85 engine, two-bedroom, 1,400 pounds of general aviation aircraft with a wingspan of 30 feet can reach speeds of 117 km / h and was clearly a coordinated control of connecting the aileron and the rudder control offered by the column. Free pedals, had facilitated the training of pilots, and had a slip, stall and spin proof.

In 1973, the Maryland National Capital Planning Commission and Park College Park Airport, and four years after it was purchased has been registered on the National Register of Historic Places.

Today, the world's oldest continuously airport, occupies 40 hectares, is a non-towers, air with 80 general aviation aircraft and a single lighted runway of 2,600 meters (15/33). The hangar airmail original and the compass are from 1919 to the end of the field is below the tracks, while 27 thousand square meters College Park Aviation Museum, a glass and brick, curved roof structure from the beginning Wright Brothers and drawings inspired by a branch of the Smithsonian Institution is located on the page and displays many historical aircraft airport related.

Countless modern turboprop and pure jet aircraft regularly ply the corridor from Maryland and Baltimore-Washington International Airport, perhaps nothing small land called "College Park Airport" between them. But at least a nod of recognition and appreciation at the time should be extended. This is finally where it all began.

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