Airplane Manufacturing in Farmingdale

by Leroy E Douglas, Ken Neubeck, Long Island Republic Airport Historical Society, et al.

Book Overview

Farmingdale, located in west-central Long Island on both sides of the Nassau-Suffolk County border, was an important center of airplane manufacturing from the First World War until almost the end of the Cold War. Aviation pioneers like Lawrence Sperry, Sherman Fairchild, Leroy Grumman, Alexander de Seversky, and Alexander Kartveli directed the manufacture of aircraft, aircraft engines, and key subassemblies as they evolved from the propeller, biplane...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467115622
• ISBN13: 9781467115629
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"