the City Council approved the Santa Fe Municipal Airport Master Plan which provides for future work over the next 20 years. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AND PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF SANTA FE AVIATION Barnstormers and Early Air Mail Beginning around 1911, barnstormers flew in from the Midwest or California to visit Santa Fe. They landed in nearby fields hoping that in the thin air of the 7,000 foot elevation, they wouldn’t hit a sudden down draft. The tallest man-made obstacles that they had to be aware of was the pair of New Mexico Power and Light smoke stacks near Don Gaspar and Water Street at that time. Ronald E. Gregg and his wife were barnstormers that flew a two-seat parasol-wing Nicholas Beazey light plane over the city. One day, Gregg hit a downdraft of wind and crashed the plane in the Santa Fe area to the point that it was no longer flyable. By 1937, the Beazley Aircraft Company had ceased production due to the Great Depression and no more of these aircraft were built. Barnstorming continued, forging the pioneer spirit of flying until the late 1930s. Ronald and Mrs. Gregg with their Beazley airplane Beginning around 1920, air mail service using an airstrip that a gang of prison inmates had hastily scratched into the dirt at the edge of town. Lindbergh Visits Santa Fe Charles A. Lindbergh lands his plane, THE SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS, in Santa Fe
the City Council approved the Santa Fe Municipal Airport Master Plan which provides for future work over the next 20 years. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AND PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF SANTA FE AVIATION Barnstormers and Early Air Mail Beginning around 1911, barnstormers flew in from the Midwest or California to visit Santa Fe. They landed in nearby fields hoping that in the thin air of the 7,000 foot elevation, they wouldn’t hit a sudden down draft. The tallest man-made obstacles that they had to be aware of was the pair of New Mexico Power and Light smoke stacks near Don Gaspar and Water Street at that time. Ronald E. Gregg and his wife were barnstormers that flew a two-seat parasol-wing Nicholas Beazey light plane over the city. One day, Gregg hit a downdraft of wind and crashed the plane in the Santa Fe area to the point that it was no longer flyable. By 1937, the Beazley Aircraft Company had ceased production due to the Great Depression and no more of these aircraft were built. Barnstorming continued, forging the pioneer spirit of flying until the late 1930s. Ronald and Mrs. Gregg with their Beazley airplane Beginning around 1920, air mail service using an airstrip that a gang of prison inmates had hastily scratched into the dirt at the edge of town. Lindbergh Visits Santa Fe Charles A. Lindbergh lands his plane, THE SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS, in Santa Fe
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