Flight Over Midtown shape-square The Times front page on

The Times front page on Oct

Many cars had bullet-nose front ends (a shape meant to suggest aircraft engine housings)

The next day The New York Times headline declared

The building was called Times Tower and at 375 feet the gothic fortress was the second-tallest building in the world

Flight Over Midtown shape-square The Times front page onA pilot named Ted Herbert goes for a spin over midtown Manhattan in February 1937. He is operating a new type of sport plane dubbed a "flivver" in The New York Times, which houses a V 8 automobile engine. This latest invention would reportedly solve New York's traffic problems since the engine "could be taken from a Ford and installed in the plane when the owner decides to quit the road and take to the air." Mr. Herbert reportedly flew out of