Produced in the 1940s, this wonderful movie takes you back to an era when flying was fun. Grab your trunks, prop off your plane & head for the beach. Members of the Long Island Aviation Club are shown headed out on a flying field trip. (The Club was based in Hicksville, but eliminated after World War II with the development of Levittown.) Gyrocopters, bi-winged stunt planes and amphibian planes that land near Wall Street in New York City for commuting. The film also contains rare footage of Garfield ‘Gar’ Arthur Wood (December 4, 1880 — June 19, 1971), who was an American inventor, entrepreneur, motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour on water. Here’s the original description of the film from the 1940s: “The pastime of aviation is shown, and the development of the sport in different sections of the country among enthusiasts. All sorts and types of flyers are shown, from a gent who uses a barn as a hangar for his plane, to the luxury passenger plane of Gar Wood which he uses to fly from his Florida estate to his office in Detroit. This is a very entertaining short, indicating the development of general flying at an early date among many classes of people for all sorts of pleasure and business purposes. Produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr.”

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