Airplane manufacturing in Farmingdale / Ken Neubeck and Leroy E. Douglas ; with the Long Island Republic Airport Historical Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neubeck, Ken, author.

Douglas, Leroy E., author.

Series:

Images of aviation.

Images of aviation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aircraft industry--New York (State)--Farmingdale--History.

Aircraft industry.

Aircraft industry--New York (State)--Farmingdale--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages).

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Farmingdale, located in west-central Long Island on both sides of the Nassau-Suffolk County border, was an important center of airplane manufacturing from the First World War until almost the end of the Cold War. Aviation pioneers like Lawrence Sperry, Sherman Fairchild, Leroy Grumman, Alexander de Seversky, and Alexander Kartveli directed the manufacture of aircraft, aircraft engines, and key subassemblies as they evolved from the propeller, biplane era to the jet and space age. Farmingdale witnessed the creation of such cutting-edge aircraft as the Sperry Triplane Amphibian and Messenger; the Fairchild FC-2; the Grumman FF-1, JF-1 Duck, and G-22 Gulfhawk; the Seversky P-35; the Republic Aviation P-47, F-84, and F-105; and the Fairchild Republic space shuttle tails and A-10 Warthog. Airplane manufacturing in Farmingdale ended in 1987 with the demise of Fairchild Republic, but this book offers a comprehensive pictorial history of the outstanding achievements of so many talented men and women over seven decades.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4396-5498-0