Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport PDF Author: Bruce A. Bleakley
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467130400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Encompassing 27 square miles, Dallas/Fort Worth International is one of the world's largest and busiest airports, accommodating more than 150,000 passengers each day. The 1974 opening of "D/FW" was preceded by nearly half a century of an often acrimonious aviation rivalry between Dallas and Fort Worth that featured a colorful cast of business leaders, municipal officials, and airline executives. Through its first 40 years, D/FW grew from a regional hub into a global crossroads for passenger and air cargo service. Bold, imaginative leadership sustained the airport through the failure of its largest tenant airline, the effects of 9/11, an air traffic controllers' strike, and more than one fuel crisis. An extraordinary economic engine for North Texas, D/FW stands poised to become home to the world's largest airline, validating the original planners' dream of a dynamic focal point for domestic and international commercial aviation.

A Giant in Texas

A Giant in Texas PDF Author: Stanley H. Scott
Publisher: Quanah, Tex. : Nortex Press
ISBN:
Category : Airports
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
"The spirited competition of Fort Worth and Dallas blossomed in many areas, beginning in the late 1900's with the fight for the railroads and climaxing in the jet age with the question of public air transportation. The authors trace the two city "flight plan" from the 1911 arrival of a journeyman pilot, Roland Garros, to Fort Worth to the establishment of Love Field in 1917 in Dallas to train pilots for the fledgling Army Air Corps, down to the arrival of today's jet airliners." -- front flap of dust jacket.
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