JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
There were a number of interesting/unusual/bizarro ideas for air travel int he heady aeroplane decade of the 1920's (search for "airport" in the google search box at right to find some of this blog's posts on the subject). This one appeared in Popular Mechanics for July, 1927--a 14-story "Air Garage" that would serve to launch 14 planes from its 14 floors, times four, I guess. I reckon that the interior of each floor would function like a garage/taxi/pre-flight area, and the planes would use the areas closest to the exterior of the structure as a runway. No doubt the writer was envisioning the need for this as the popularity of the airplane was, well, soaring, and the vision may have inched the airplane close to the ubiquity of the Model A. I commend the writer for thinking Big.
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