Aerial resources

Subject: Re: 2007 SHA symposium As sort of an off-topic tip to this, there was a report of a proposal during the beginning year of World War II to build an underground bunker system for the support of upwards of 5,000 planes to defend the East Coast of the USA to be built on Long Island the "cradle of aviation". The said proposal was found in a dumpster and reported in the press a few years ago. The location wasn't mentioned I'd expect somewhere "out East" as they say about the Hamptons and other areas out to Camp Hero, there 16" gun emplacements and early radar at Montauk a ferry step off to Block Island, now a NY State Park (stay out of the ordnance demarcated areas and the others still off limits if you go there, part of a coastal defense network that stretched into "private" looking houses (notice the narrow horizontal slit windows, there you have one) to I think Miller Field on Staten Island in NYC, the first "automated firing system in the US" now part of Gateway National Park which includes the explorer/aviator named Floyd Bennett Field, NYC's first commercial airport, where Senator and former astronaut John Glenn once set a transcontinental speed record in a jet. I just read recently that the Montauk Airport was/or had bunkers since buried perhaps part of the airfield. I've looked at in NASA World Wind 1.3 and it appears they might have been. A grandson of Pan-Am Clippers crash boat operator at Flushing Airport (probably the best breeding ground for West Nile virus and a shame, don't emergency land there there's a crane in the runway -FAA). cont'd I was told by him that the first flights to Brazil from NYC were from Flushing Bay by some veterans who had bought two surplus PBY Catalina's (or Cansos?) and flew them to Miami, Florida then to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. As a tourist statistic, I've read more tourists to NYC come from Brazil than any other country. Bom dia!