Bettis: Where Pittsburgh Aviation Took Off by Brian Butko and Sue Morris

Posted by on Jan 14, 2026 in | Comments Off on Bettis: Where Pittsburgh Aviation Took Off by Brian Butko and Sue Morris Bettis Where Pittsburgh Aviation Took Off by Brian Butko and Sue Morris Senator John Heinz History Center, 124 pp., paperback $19.95 Most of the 9 million people flying to or through Pittsburgh know only Pittsburgh International Airport, a sprawling, 10,000-acre facility, the largest civil-aviation field in Pennsylvania today. But in fact, it’s only the latest in a succession of four major...
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Ahead of Her Time: Pennsylvania Aviator Helen Richey

Posted by on Oct 9, 2020 in | Comments Off on Ahead of Her Time: Pennsylvania Aviator Helen Richey It was the era of plucky barnstorming aviators. Charles Lindbergh had flown across the Atlantic in 1927 and in the ensuing decade the romance of the skies was in full flower. Flight records were being chased and broken with regularity. Faster, sleeker airplanes were being introduced. Air races with cash prizes were in vogue across the country. The public, fed by an eager press, was fascinated....
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Taking Flight! Pittsburgh’s Gateway to the Skies

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Taking Flight! Pittsburgh’s Gateway to the Skies More than twenty million passengers found their way into, through, and out of Pittsburgh International Airport during 1999 alone. (The figure breaks down to six hun­dred flights daily to one hundred and nineteen domestic destina­tions and ten foreign destina­tions.) Had they been attempting to reserve seats on a flight departing Pittsburgh in 1927, passengers would have had to vie for one flight...
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