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	Floyd Bennett Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Floyd Bennett Field, New York City's first municipal airport, was located in Brooklyn on Barren Island, which is now physically part of Long Island due to the filling in of the channel.
		New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia pushed for Floyd Bennett field to replace Newark Airport in Newark, New Jersey as the city's main air terminal.
		Later, the aviation program at Floyd Bennett was abandoned in favor of a new airport in Queens, which took advantage of the then-new Queens-Midtown Tunnel to Manhattan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floyd_Bennett_Field (631 words)

	Floyd Bennett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bennett was born in Warrensburg, N.Y., 25 October, 1890.
		Bennett was at the controls on May 9 as the two men made their attempt, returning to their base at Spitzbergen the same day.
		Floyd Bennett Field, New York City's first municipal airport, and the destroyer, USS Bennett (DD-473), were named in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floyd_Bennett (407 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field
		The story of Floyd Bennett Field, from garbage heap and glue factory, to municipal airport, to Naval Air Station, was a saga of continual controversy, progress, and achievement unmatched in aviation history.
		Bennett was not acquainted with any ofthe pilots on board the 'Bremen', but they were fellow fliers and explorers in trouble, and despite his fever, he took off immediately from Detroit to try a rescue.
		The field was expanded in size from 387 acres to 1288 acres by reclaiming large portions of Barren Island.
	www.aero-web.org /history/fbennett/cgasb_fb.htm (1058 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field
		The decline in the population of grassland birds throughout the northeastern region of the country is reflected in the loss of their breeding populations at FBF.
		FBF is bounded by Jamaica Bay on its north, east and south shores.
		From the entrance of FBF, drive straight down Floyd Bennett Drive to where it turns sharply to the left, proceed north and make the first right on a road that will take you to a parking area near the bay.
	www.brooklynbirdclub.org /floyd.htm (1186 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The combination of the field's location, it's long runways and very low air traffic made it an ideal airport for use by pilots attempting record-breaking trans-continental and trans-Atlantic flights during the 1930s.
		Once the field was transferred from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior in the early 1970s, the Naval Air Station closed.
		Floyd Bennett Field is part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.
	www.geocities.com /fort_tilden/fbf.html (395 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field Historic District--Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places ...
		By 1933, Floyd Bennett Field was the second busiest airport in the country, with 51,828 landings and takeoffs, but only a minor percentage of this actively consisted of the mail, freight and commercial passengers which generated revenue.
		Floyd Bennett Field Historic District is part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of the National Park Service's Gateway National Recreation Area in New York, across the Marine Parkway Bridge from Jacob Riis Park and the U.S. Coast Guard Station and U.S. Military Reservation Fort Tilden.
		Floyd Bennett Field is the subject of an online-lesson plan produced by Teaching with Historic Places, a National Register program that offers classroom-ready lesson plans on properties listed in the National Register.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/flo.htm (983 words)

	Hiking Floyd Bennett Field
		The entrance to Floyd Bennett Field is on Flatbush Avenue.
		The field is the official eastern terminal for all coast-to-coast record flights made under the supervision of the National Aviation Association Contest Committee.
		A party of three Torreyites including the field leader met at 9:00 at the entrance of Floyd Bennett Field for the purpose of identifying the late spring flora of the area.
	nynjctbotany.org /lgtofc/lgbennet.html (954 words)

	The Floyd Bennett Field Task Force
		The Field was headquarters for the commissioning and deployment of the Navy's aircraft.
		Floyd Bennett Field was at the center of the nation's most stunning industrial transformation: the WW2 mobilization of automobile and "job-shop" aircraft plants to mass producing hundreds of models of quality military aircraft.
		The Field was the hub for deploying nearly 100,000 Navy aircraft from manufacturing centers in the greater New York area, southern California, Ohio, Kansas and Texas.
	kerrdrill.tripod.com (719 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field --Reading 3
		Former Floyd Bennett Field pilot Giles Gianelloni explained that fleet pilots were sent directly from their carrier or home base to the factory to fly the new aircraft back to their ship or base.
		When Floyd Bennett Field became a naval air station, instructor pilots would split their time between ground and air training during the mornings and in the afternoons flying newly-built aircraft from the factories back to the station until dark.
		Notable among the aircraft tested and commissioned at Floyd Bennett Field was the Grumman F6F Hellcat, which finally bested the Mitsubishi Zero fighter, and is considered by many to be “the plane that won the war in the Pacific.” The Grumman TBF Avenger was to become an effective torpedo bomber against Japanese aircraft carriers.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/120floyd/120facts3.htm (1580 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field
		Floyd Bennett Field, long a project of Mayor Walker, has been given a rating of A-1 by the Department of Commerce.
		Floyd Bennett, wife of the martyred flyer, concluded the exercises in the grand stand.
		Mayor Walker, wittily comparing the wilderness of what is now Floyd Bennett Field with the airport, characterized Barren Island as the area was once named as the "stench of America"--with which laughter resounded from the farthest hanger.
	www.gerritsenmemories.com /hist_stor/floydbennet.htm (1268 words)

	Warrant Mechanic Floyd Bennett, USN (1890—1928)
		Floyd Bennett was born at Warrensburg, New York, on 25 October 1890.
		Bennett was appointed second-in-command of Byrd's 1928—30 expedition to the South Pole, most of the details he had planned.
		New York City’s first municipal airport, Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn (later Naval Air Station New York), and Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport in Glens Falls, New York, were named for him.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/ussbennett/namesake473.html (458 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field: Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn
		alking along Floyd Bennett Field's historic hanger row today you can almost hear the roar of the mighty engines that powered aircraft on their way to patrol the vital sea lanes of the Atlantic during the German U-Boat offensive of 1942.
		Floyd Bennett Field's heritage in both civil aviation and military aviation is long and rich.
		The lesson is based on the Floyd Bennett Field Historic District, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/120floyd (373 words)

	Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: New York City, Brooklyn
		Floyd Bennett Field, as depicted on the 1934 U.S. Navy Aviation Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy).
		The Floyd Bennett administration building and control tower are in the background.
		Floyd Bennett Field, as depicted on the 1935 Regional Aeronautical Chart.
	www.airfields-freeman.com /NY/Airfields_NY_NY_Brooklyn.htm (1627 words)

	NYC Audubon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was clear that at Floyd Bennett Field, no longer an active airfield, trees and shrubs would soon invade the open grasslands in the process of natural plant succession.
		The Northern harriers have been breeding successfully in Floyd Bennett Field in recent years and can often be sighted gliding over the grasslands, as can hovering kestrels during spring and fall migration.
		The GRAMP areas are compatible with the historic district of Floyd Bennett Field and add to the variety of wild- life habitat in Gateway.
	www.nycaudubon.org /projects/gramp (1110 words)

	Marine Park, Brooklyn
		Floyd Bennett Field, Flatbush Avenue and Jamaica Bay, one of New York's two municipal airports, covers a rectangular expanse of 387 acres surrounded by fens bordering Jamaica Bay.
		Blind landings at the field are facilitated by directional radio beam and a special runway bordered by contact lights.
		Its site on Jamaica Bay makes Floyd Bennett Field particularly suitable for seaplanes, an advantage impressively demonstrated in 1933 by the visit of twenty-four giant Italian seaplanes under General Italo Balbo on their way home after a transatlantic trip to the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.
	www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/marine_park.html (598 words)

	The Boßecker Newsletter Winter 1998
		Floyd Bennett Field is located near the western end of Long Island.
		The Naval Reserve unit at Floyd Bennett Field said the plane, a Vought scouting model attached to the plane carrier Yorktown, had taken off at Squantum, Mass., for Bennett Field.
		David Dows Jr., son of the former Nassau County Sheriff, was repairing his own plane on the private landing field of his father's estate, adjoining the Smith place, when the navy fliers roared overhead at a low altitude.
	www.mindspring.com /~sbosecker/04_01_01.htm (1205 words)

	Weiner (NY09) - Press Release - Media & Public Get First Detailed Look At $15 Million, 150,000 Square Foot Family ...
		An 82,500 square foot artificial turf soccer and football field featuring bleachers and lighting will be established to the northwest of the hangars, along with two 50 by 110 foot indoor soccer fields in hangar eight.
		The eight hangars at Floyd Bennett Field have stood sentry along Flatbush Avenue since 1931, when construction was completed on New York City’s first municipal airport.
		Currently, the areas in and around the hangers at Floyd Bennett Field play host to a variety of activities, none of which should be disrupted by the construction of the complex.
	www.house.gov /list/press/ny09_weiner/060203sportcomplex.html (840 words)

	Corners Project Services Index
		Captain C. Brownell's level fields at Miller Hill came to the attention of the U.S. Government as a desirable airport location, when army planes used it as a base to search for a navy balloonist.
		Glens Falls Chamber of Commerce leased 80 acres from Captain Brownell and the field was christened Floyd Bennett Field.
		August 1,1941 commercial airline operations were inaugurated at Floyd Bennett Field with the arrival of two passenger Canadian Colonial Airways airliners.
	www.sunyacc.edu /corners/services/transportation/1transportation.htm (438 words)

	Welcome to Historic Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Prior to the construction of Floyd Bennett Field.
		The control tower at Floyd Bennett Field was modified by the US Navy during World War 2.
		It runs from the vicinity of the front gate to the North corner of the field near the Mill Basin inlet.
	www.geocities.com /floyd_bennett_field (677 words)

	Historic Floyd Bennett Field as part of Gateway NRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Navy maintained Floyd Bennett Field as a Naval Air Reserve Training Station until it was deactivated in 1971.
		The headquarters of Gateway NRA and the Jamaica Bay Unit were established on the field, but it remained relatively abandoned except for an Armed Forces Reserve Center and the helicopter operations of the USCG Air Station Brooklyn, and the NYPD Aviation Unit.
		Portions of Floyd Bennett Field have also been used as an Armed Forces Reserve Center, a Job Corp training facility, the NYPD Police Academy Driver Training (PADT) and Emergency Services Unit (ESU) training site, military housing, an FAA Doppler radar site, a radio-controlled airfield, and Gateway's Ecology Village.
	www.deepcreekyachtclub.com /WebPage/NPSFBF.html (330 words)

	AAA Observing -- Floyd Bennett Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The AAA meets monthly for stargazing on a Friday night at Floyd Bennett Field in Gateway National Park, Brooklyn.
		Floyd Bennett Field is located at the end of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn (the "end" if coming from Manhattan).
		The entrance to the field is on the left side at a traffic light.
	www.aaa.org /aaafloydbennett.htm (266 words)

	A weeklong journal of a sanitation worker in training. By Robin Nagle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		DSNY trucks in front of an old hangarWe're on the backside of Brooklyn at Floyd Bennett Field, where the rising sun is red as blood and the air is gauzy with the smell of the sea.
		The field Floyd Bennett, located on the edge of Jamaica Bay, was inaugurated in 1930 as the city's first municipal airport.
		Though it is an obscure corner of the city, many of us already know Floyd Bennett Field because we were here earlier in the summer to learn the fine art of truck driving, a prerequisite to becoming a sanitation worker.
	www.slate.com /id/2106849/entry/2107834 (1027 words)

	CNN - History takes off at legendary airport - December 13, 1997
		NEW YORK (CNN) -- Aviation is still alive at the legendary Floyd Bennett Field as veterans lovingly restore vintage aircraft.
		Bennett and Adm. Richard E. Byrd made history in 1926 by being the first men to fly over the North Pole.
		Gateway historian John Gallagher said the field was the first municipal airport in New York City, where Wiley Post took off to set his round-the-world flying record in 1933, and Howard Hughes departed to break that record in 1938.
	www.cnn.com /US/9712/13/flying.memories (363 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Floyd Bennett Field was NY City's first municipal airport.
		The airport was opened in 1931; in 1936, the Coast Guard opened an airstation; in 1941 the field was transfered to the U.S. Navy for use as a Naval Airbase; it remained active until it was decommissioned in 1971.
		Most of the field is used for various recreational activites.
	members.terracom.net /~sobering/Floyd_Bennett_Field (393 words)

	FLOYD BENNETT FIELD
		Opened in 1931, Floyd Bennett Field, located at the southeastern end of Brooklyn, was New York City's first municipal airport.
		But with its long concrete runways and unobstructed approaches over Jamaica Bay, Floyd Bennett Field in the 1930's made an ideal airport for record-breaking flights.
		With frequent visits by famous pilots such as Wiley Post, Howard Hughes, and Amelia Earhart, Floyd Bennett Field became one of the most important airfields of its time and helped usher in the aviation era.
	www.mindspring.com /~jaytee/blimp.htm (167 words)

	Deadprogrammer's Cafe
		As it turns out Floyd Bennett Field used to be a small, money-loosing airport that had one big draw.
		It was a starting point for Hughes's famous around the world in 3 days flight, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan's transcontinental "wrong way" flight which is a story in itself and numerous other flights by the likes of Alexander de Seversky, Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh.
		Of course, not being able to compete with JFK and La Guardia, after the war Floyd Bennett Field airstrips and hangars fell into disrepair, and were used for ventures similar to that summer camp.
	www.deadprogrammer.com /?m=200504&paged=2 (545 words)

	NYC ARTS - Organization Details
		Also here is the North 40 nature trail and Floyd Bennett Field, the city's first airport, later a naval air station, now known for its great abandoned runways upon which cyclists and in-line skaters frolic.
		Athletic fields, a model airplane field, walking trails and educational programs are open to the public.
		Environmental field trips can be taken here by school groups during spring and autumn.
	www.nyc-arts.org /oDetail.aspx?OrgID=1311 (593 words)

	Floyd Bennett Field: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Floyd Bennett Field: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		(and many passengers complained that Floyd Bennett was farther from Manhattan Manhattan quick summary:
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fl/floyd_bennett_field.htm (1358 words)

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