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The Nassau Boulevard Airfield, or the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome, was a short-lived airfield located at Garden City, Long Island, New York, in operation from 1910 to 1913. ==History== Due to the restricted space available at nearby Mineola Airport, a new 350-acre flying facility was created in Garden City, New York, in 1910. It was considered one of the finest flying facilities of its era, with 31 wooden hangars, 5 grandstands, workshops, a refreshment stand, and a headquarters.〔Stoff, Joshua, "Long Island Airports", Arcadia Publishing, an imprint of Tempus Publishing Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Charleston, South Carolina, Chicago, San Francisco, 2004, , ISBN 9780738536767.〕〔https://books.google.com/books?id=zDcW-WWiedMC&pg=PT22&lpg=PT22&dq=nassau+boulevard+airport&source=bl&ots=b3TCGlagcQ&sig=SzAARKgaNH5CR9uHsFLrTdEx_qA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBQQ6AEwADgUahUKEwiLhv3ug_rGAhVGlQ0KHcfzDZg#v=onepage&q=nassau%20boulevard%20airport&f=false〕 "Nassau Blvd. Airfield was large, stretching from Stratford to the Long Island Railroad’s Main Line and from Roxbury to Clinch. It had 30 hangers, a 3,000 person grandstand and other facilities. It was surrounded by a 15-foot tall board fence."〔Petrellese, Stephanie, "Philatelic Buffs Celebrate Centennial", ''The Garden City News'', Garden City, New York, 30 September 2011, page 1.〕〔 Following the meet, producer William J. Humphrey filmed the first aviation film, ''The Military Air-Scout'', at the aerodrome, with Army Signal Corps flier Lt. Henry Arnold as the stunt pilot.〔Copp, DeWitt S., "A Few Great Captains: The Men and Events That Shaped the Development of U.S. Air Power", The Air Force Historical Foundation, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, Library of Congress catalog card number 78-22310, ISBN 0-385-13310-3, p. 7.〕 By 1913, however, the facility was seen as too small, and the land too valuable, so it was closed and all flying operations moved to the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome.〔Stoff, Joshua, "Long Island Airports", Arcadia Publishing, an imprint of Tempus Publishing Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Charleston, South Carolina, Chicago, San Francisco, 2004, , ISBN 9780738536767.〕 "Stratford School sits epicenter on what was that airfield."〔Petrellese, Stephanie, "Philatelic Buffs Celebrate Centennial", ''The Garden City News'', Garden City, New York, 30 September 2011, page 1.〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nassau Boulevard Airfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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