Boeing Field (Images of Aviation: Washington)

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Even before there have been runways, the area south of town of Seattle was once Washington’s aviation hub. Charles Hamilton, a daredevil dubbed “Crazy Man of the Air,” was the primary flyer Within the state when he coaxed his Curtiss biplane into the sky over Meadows Racetrack in 1910. He promptly crashed. With the assistance of William Boeing and his growing aviation company, Boeing Field opened in 1928. In the ones early days, brave air travelers could hitch a ride at the side of bags of mail in cold, noisy biplanes. Bigger, better aircraft soon followed, but wartime intervened. Thousands of Flying Fortress bombers emerged from Boeing’s Plant 2 on the edge of the airfield and winged off to war. Within the years after, Boeing Field served a dazzling array of winged machines―from the smallest Piper Cub to Air Force One.

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