What was JFK Airport's name before?
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Originally it was named "Idlewild Aiport" (no international in the name) after where it was built when construction began in 1942 on the site of the Idelwild golf course.\n\nIn 1948 it had it's first airline flight and was rechristened as "New York International Airport", although the name "Idlewild" remained in common use and the airport's IATA code was IDL.\n\nThe airport received it's current monkier one month after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The airport received the new IATA airport code of JFK, and since then the airport has become widely referred to by the acronynm.
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Here, check this out.\n\nhttp://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBOS/1977/9/1/MonthlyHistory.html\n\nOr, if you have a specific date you'd like to get info for...\n\nhttp://www.almanac.com/weatherhistory/index.php
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JFK - 1963\nRFK - 1968
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Im an Army guy but love old airplanes!! The B-58 Hustler, a supersonic delta wing airplane. It had this cool centerline fueltank/atomic bomb combination. Lots of pages about it....just google Last time I saw one was at Chanute AFB when I was a CAP cadet in 80's   ....Why would a nice lady like you want to know about an old airplane for?? I would talk to the people in the sight i showed you about the patch...look for other sights by typing B-58 in google..lots of sights with people who flew, sombody would know him .
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OH, THOSE MEMORIES.\nI arrived in Ft Benning, GA, directly from basic training in Nov/'63, weeks before JFKennedy was shot.\nI WAS A MEMBER OF THE THEN-CALLED "11th Air Assault Division", forerunner of the "1st Cavalry Division, AirMobile".\n\nI was transferred from 11th Air to HQ CO,  where I completed my term, never having left Ft Benning. \nMy former unit, the 11th, shipped out, lock, stock and helicopters in Aug/'64.\n\nSorry I can't help you in your quest. Good luck.
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http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KNYC/2005/10/1/MonthlyHistory.html
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Carlsen AFB, Trinidad\nWaller AFB, Trinidad\n\nThese bases were closed in 1949 with the US retaining an option for reentry.  There are some absolutely great photographs of the Army Air Corps in Trinidad and the heritage of "Rum and Coca Cola" by the Andrew Sisters.\n\nThe Navy portion of the Army Carlsen Field was originally designated as NAAF Edinburgh Field in 1943 and redesignated about a year later as NAAF Carlsen.  It was designated as a blimp base which lasted until about 1950.  The last flight into the seadrome by a VP-34 was in 1955.  The base was finally turned over to the newly independent nation of Trinidad in 1967.
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Here's the address:\n\n5303A JFK Blvd. N.\nLittle Rock, AR 72116\n\nThe company was taken over by Remax about a year ago.
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I suggest you begin with two searches on Wikipedia. One is 'space race' and the other is 'John F Kennedy'.
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Personally, I liked the La Guardia airport bathrooms more than the Washington Dulles airport bathrooms.\n\nLa Guardia may not be like the brand-new terminals at JFK, but they are not the worst by far.
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Here is one:\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/biography/jfk/timeline.html
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Finding a runway close by.
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The recent debate about UK airports has had various scare stories about the "biggest airport in the world" being built in some greenfield location as an alternative to Heathrow.\nIt is worth putting this into the context of understanding just exactly what is meant by terms such as "biggest", "busiest", or "busiest international", as is often applied to Heathrow.\n\nThe Biggest Airport in the World\nTaken literally as the airport which takes up the most land mass, this is the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It takes up some 81 square miles - an area larger than many cities.\n\nTrivia: This airport has four terminals, yet only three have ever been used.\n\nThe second biggest airport in the world is Denver International, which takes up 53 square miles.\n\nBy comparison, London Heathrow takes up around 3,000 acres, or just 4.7 square miles.\n\nThe Busiest Airport in the World\nThis depends on whether you monitor aircraft movements (the numbers of take-offs and landings), or passenger numbers. An airport such as Washington National may have relatively high aircraft movements, but as the largest aircraft it handles is a Boeing 757, it handles relatively fewer annual passengers than other airports with similar movements.\n\nMovements and passenger numbers are both acceptable methods of determining the "busiest" airport, although passenger numbers is the generally quoted figure.\n\nMost Passenger numbers\nAtlanta Hartsfield Jackson is the busiest airport in the world, handling 76.7 million passengers in 2002. Atlanta overtook Chicago O'Hare in 1998, and is now significantly ahead. Chicago handled 66.6 million passengers in 2002.\n\nBusiest International Airport\nLondon Heathrow handles the most international passengers (as opposed to passengers on domestic flights, which make up the majority of traffic at US airports). On an overall scale, Heathrow ranks third behind Atlanta and Chicago.\n\nBusiest City (all airports)\nWhen the flights from all airports in a city are combined, London is the busiest aviation centre in the world. \n\nOnly London, Tokyo and New York have two airports in the top 30 worldwide. \n\nCombining New York's JFK (29 943 084) and Newark (29 202 654 ) still does not reach the same level as London Heathrow. Despite being the major international gateway for Japan, Tokyo Narita (28 883 606) is overshadowed by the mainly domestic Haneda (61 079 478). This puts Tokyo on a relatively even keel with Heathrow (63 338 641) and Gatwick (29 628 423). \n\nWhen Stansted (18 750 000), Luton (6 500 000), and London City (1 500 000) are added on top, London handles a total of almost 120 million passengers annually.\n\nSource: World airports Council , BAA, Luton Airport, London City Airport
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American Airlines Flight 11 \nUnited Airlines Flight 175 \nAmerican Airlines Flight 77 \nUnited Airlines Flight 93 \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researchers_questioning_the_official_account_of_9/11
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how about the airlines?\n\n911 was the perfect example.\n\n2 planes leaving Boston 30Min's apart going to the same LA airport and both plans had a half a load.
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The assassination of President John F Kennedy.
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JFK announced to a crowd in Berlin 'Ich bin ein Berliner!' - to great applause and amusement, thinking he was telling them - presumably in a figurative sense - he was a native of Berlin and that he empathised greatly with the problems of that city at the time.\n\nHowever, in German the indefinite article (ein) is dropped before the noun 'Berliner' when it means 'a native of Berlin'.  (He should have said 'Ich bin Berliner').  Leaving the article in would, strictly speaking, suggest that he was a doughnut (US spelling 'donut') - also named after the city of Berlin but used in a slightly different (grammatical) way.\n\nTo say that he 'spoke German' is, however, something of an exaggeration.  If he calls the utterance of those four words 'speaking German' then I, by that reckoning, could claim to speak about two dozen languages - which I cannot!