Mark Gale, PHL CEO addressing crowd along with Congressman Chaka Fattah, Sir Richard Branson, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Virgin America CEO David Cush. Also seen are Virgin America Flight Attendants ith Pom-Poms and Cheerleaders.
Today marks a number of aeronautical milestones: The first balloon flight, the first French airmail flight, the first nonstop flight across the South Atlantic, the first transatlantic flight by an airship, birthdays celebrated ...
A mayoral tantrum, the drudgery of prohibition and the Great Depression teamed up to build New York City’s first major airport, which opened on October 15, 1939.