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1932
1932 - 0122.PDF
FLIGHT, FEBRUARY 5, 1932 CWifwvt Keun The Shushan Airport An Ambitious Scheme for New Orleans By E. ALLEN RICE vVELVE minutes from the City Hall, on the south and will be executed by the National Airport Engineering I") I shore of Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, is III building one of the finest airports in the world, which will accommodate every type of modern aeroplane and seaplane. When completed, it will meet the requirements of the Depart ment of Commerce for an A-l-A rating. Concrete mixers and pile drivers are building a bulk head into the lake enclosing a triangular-shaped area of 310 acres, a mile and a-half along the shore and over two miles around. Dredges are working day and night filling the in side of this bulkhead with sand from the bottom of the lake. The State of Louisiana, through the Orleans Levee Board, is financing this $2,000,000.00 development. To Mr. A. L. Shushan, Presi dent of the Orleans Levee Board, goes the credit tor the accomplishment of a task more difficult than is usually encountered in even so large a project. His far-sightedness and persistent efforts in over coming apparently insurmount able legal obstacles has been rewarded by the beginning of actual construction. In his honour the airport has been named the Shushan Airport. Experienced Engineers Chosen Plans for this gigantic undertaking have been designed * s *** PROPOSED AERODROME (nfi' '.\^fh»^vv ^0®&9 NEW ORLEANS*? ^•', Jj|v G-OXF OF MEXICO , W*P New Orleans, showing the location of the Shushan Airport. Co., Ltd., of Los Angeles, Cleveland, and New York. This company was selected as the most experienced and responsible organisation for this work, after months of investigation bv the Orleans Levee Board. Mr. William E. Arthur, President, is one of the oldest and most experienced airport engineers in the United States, having designed many large and important airports in the United States and foreign countries. His organisation includes some of the foremost engineers and aero nautical men in the aviation world. Some of these are: — Col. Eddie V. Rickenbacker, Maj. James H. Doolittle, Col. John " H. Jouett, E. W. " Pop " Cleveland, Bernt Balchen, and Col. Charles Wayne Kerwood. The com bined knowledge and experi ence of these men has gone into the plans and designs for the Shushan Airport. John Klorer, Chief Engineer of the Orleans Levee Board, from his knowledge of engineering problems under local condi tions, is giving valuable assist ance in the design and construction of the airport. Five Year Building Programme A five-year building programme has been planned and designed for the Shushan Airport, which anticipates the essential requirements for an airport of this magnitude SHUSHAN AIRPORT: This drawing shows a bird's eye view, from the north, of New Orleans and the Shushan Airport on Lake Pontchartrain. 114
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