Current Info 5/25/07
May 25th 2007FTCFTC Private Terminal
MMU FTC Celebrates the 80th Anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh’s non-stop Transatlantic solo flight.
May 20-21, 1927- Transatlantic non-stop solo flight - Charles A Lindbergh, in Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis, from Long Island to Paris, in 33h:32m (>33h:39m). Although 91 persons in 13 separate flights had crossed the Atlantic before him, he flew directly between two great world cities and did it alone. Incidental to that= flight, he also set several new intercity speed records in flying the Ryan from San Diego to New York.
May 20, 1911- Military flight school - The Army established its pilot training school at College Park MD, and bids were taken for hangars.
May 19, 1917 - National aircraft insignia - A white star with a red dot in its center on a blue circle, and vertical red-white-blue stripes on the rudder was approved by the Army. This was temporarily replaced in Feb 1918 by a concentric red-blue-white circle until the end of World War I.
May 16-31, 1919 - Transatlantic flight - USN LtCdr Albert C Read and pilot Lt Walter Hinton, in Curtiss NC-4, one of a flight of three, from Long Island to Plymouth, England, via Newfoundland, the Azores, and Lisbon, 4,514 miles in 53h:58m.
May 19, 1924 - Altitude record - 35,239′ attained by USAS Lt John Macready in a LePere fighter over Dayton OH.
May 20, 1926 - Air Commerce Act - President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the first Federal legislation regulating civil aeronautics.
For more “This week in Aviation History,” be sure to check back.
Welcome to the MMUFTC Private Terminal, a full service private FBO.
Arriving aircraft are requested to provide a two hour notification for guaranteed services.
The MMUFTC can be reached at 973-401-0106.
The MMUFTC frequency is 130.95.
Remember that the MMUFTC ramp provides direct vehicle access to your aircraft.
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Currently, there is construction taking place on the bravo taxiway. All aircraft are requested to enter via the Hangar 5 ramp and then proceed to charlie, lima, kilo taxiways.
