An airship hovers over Manhattan, New York. From Modern Mechanix, March 1934 In March 1934, Modern Mechanix reported on a plan to fill in the Hudson River and connect the island of Manhattan with New Jersey. The plan, proposed by publicist and engineering scholar Norman Sper, involved damming the Hudson River on the north and south sides of Manhattan and widening the Harlem River in order to…
Rooftop Airports Revisited: An Even Scarier Proposal – but great #dieselpunk inspiration!
Proposed rooftop airport for major cities, from Modern Mechanix, July 1938 Remember those skyscraper-based runways we highlighted here a few years ago? Turns out it can always get worse. From the same magazine — Modern Mechanix — comes this idea by “a French engineer”: Proposed as a solution to the problem of locating an airport in the heart of any big city, a design for a long orientable runway,…
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