{"id":10030,"date":"2023-11-12T06:41:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T06:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2023-11-12T06:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T06:41:15","slug":"when-aviation-was-more-than-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=10030","title":{"rendered":"When Aviation Was More Than the News"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

Air aviation news – In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum of The Times, for which he is curator.<\/p>\n

In charting the\u00a0flight of the battery-powered CX300 aircraft<\/a>\u00a0recently, The New York Times was back where it has spent a lot of time over the last 120 years: in the clouds.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, The Times missed the first flights by the Wright brothers near Kitty Hawk, N.C., on Dec. 17, 1903. But nine days later, the newspaper ran a short article on Page 1 about the Wrights\u2019 desire to sell their \u201cNorth Carolina Box Kite Machine<\/a>\u201d to the government, possibly for use in \u201ctorpedo warfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the dynamic managing editor\u00a0Carr V. Van Anda<\/a>\u00a0(1864-1945), The Times embraced the pioneering field of aviation. In May 1910, Van Anda hired a special express train to follow under Glenn H. Curtiss as he made one of the earliest cross-country flights, from\u00a0Albany to New York City<\/a>. A month later, The Times and The Philadelphia Public Ledger (both owned by Adolph S. Ochs) awarded $10,000 to Charles K. Hamilton for flying\u00a0round-trip between those two cities in a single day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Times took the brazen step in 1916 of\u00a0slapping its name on a 200-horsepower Curtiss biplane<\/a>, piloted by Victor Carlstrom, that was supposed to make a sunrise-to-sunset voyage from Chicago to New York, carrying more than 1,000 letters and postcards for the United States Post Office, in an early demonstration of airmail. A photo of \u201cThe New York Times\u201d aircraft is in the\u00a0Museum at The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n