************ 1959 New York La Guardia Airport Scenery **************

by Tom Gibson, Jaap de Baare, and Mike Stevens

Version 2, 6/17, for FS2004 only.

Support available on  the CalClassic Discussion Forum:  
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NOTE: This file, AI traffic, and lots of classic airliners can be 
downloaded free from Tom Gibson's California Classics at - 
http://www.calclassic.com/ 

We've produced this scenery to provide GMAX terminals, taxiways, buildings and details as they were around 1959 for La Guardia airport in New York City (USA).  A new terminal was built in the early 1960's, opening in 1964.  La Guardia was the major domestic airport in New York City.  Other airports included Idlewild (now Kennedy) which handled both domestic and international flights, and Newark (in New Jersey).  Jaap created the Pan American 5 sided hangar and Marine Air Terminal, while Tom created the rest of the buildings.  Mike Stevens created the version 2 update with lots of new features.  Thanks to Brady Fowler for most of the pictures used in this project.

Some history from Wikipedia:

The initiative to develop the airport began with a verbal outburst by New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (in office from 1934 to 1945) upon the arrival of his TWA flight at Newark — the only commercial airport serving the New York City region at the time — as his ticket said "New York".[citation needed] He demanded to be taken to New York, and ordered the plane to be flown to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, giving an impromptu press conference to reporters along the way. At that time, he urged New Yorkers to support a new airport within their city.

American Airlines accepted LaGuardia's offer to start a pilot program of scheduled flights to Floyd Bennett, although the program failed after several months because of Newark's relative proximity to Manhattan (LaGuardia went as far as to offer police escorts to airport limousines, in an attempt to get American to stay).

During the Floyd Bennett experiment, LaGuardia and American executives began an alternative plan to build a new airport in Queens, where it could take advantage of the new Queens-Midtown Tunnel to Manhattan. This was the site eventually chosen for the new airport.[citation needed] Building on the site required moving landfill from Rikers Island, then a garbage dump, onto a metal reinforcing framework. The framework below the airport still causes magnetic interference on the compasses of outgoing aircraft: signs on the airfield warn pilots about the problem.

It cost New York City $23 million to turn the tiny North Beach Airport into a 550-acre modern facility. Newark Airport began renovations, but could not keep up with the new Queens airport, which Time called, "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world." Even before the project was completed, LaGuardia had won commitments from the 5 largest airlines (Pan American Airways, American. United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air) that they would begin using the new field as soon as it opened.

The airport was dedicated on October 15, 1939, as the New York Municipal Airport, and opened for business on that December 2. The modern name was officially applied when the airport moved to Port of New York Authority control under a lease with New York City on June 1, 1947.

Because of American's pivotal role in the development of the airport, LaGuardia gave the airline extra real estate during the airport's first year of operation, including four hangars (an unprecedented amount of space at the time) and a large office space that would be turned into the world's first airline lounge, the LaGuardia Admirals Club.

Marine Air Terminal

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York City remains the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation of passenger travel in the United States--the "Golden age of the flying boat." The Marine Air Terminal, an Art Deco building designed in 1939 by William Delano of the firm Delano & Aldrich, is comprised of a central circular core of two stories with an attic from which a rectangular entrance pavilion and two symmetrically opposed one-story wings project. Inside the terminal hangs "Flight," a mural measuring 12 feet (3.7 m) in height and 237 feet (72 m) in length, the largest mural created as part of the Great Depression-era Works Projects Administration (WPA).[1] Completed by James Brooks in 1940, "Flight" depicts the history of man's involvement with flight. The mural was painted over without explanation in the 1950s, possibly because some saw left-wing symbolism in it.[2] After an extensive restoration project, the mural was rededicated on September 18, 1980.[3]

Pan American Airways' Yankee Clipper, a Boeing 314, made its first flight across the mid-Atlantic on March 26, 1939.

By the early 1930s, commercial airlines and airports were developing due to the Federal government's use of private contractors for postal transport and Charles Lindbergh's famous transatlantic flight. New York was in dire need of a new airport by 1934 when Fiorello H. LaGuardia was elected mayor. Plans for the airport, which was to be federally sponsored and funded through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), were approved by President Roosevelt on September 3, 1937. Only six days later, the Mayor presided over groundbreaking ceremonies and construction proceeded rapidly. At 558 acres (2.3 km˛) with nearly four miles (6 km) of runways, the $40,000,000 airport was the largest and most expensive in the world. New York Municipal Airport--LaGuardia Field opened on October 15, 1939 and the Marine Air Terminal was dedicated in March 1940. The first flight from the Marine Air Terminal by a Clipper departed on March 31, 1940, carrying a crew of 10, nine passengers and over 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of mail and landed in Lisbon, Portugal 18 hours and 30 minutes later. These Clippers--with a wing span of 152 feet (46 m), a cruising speed of 200 mph (320 km/h) and a capacity to carry 72 passengers--were luxurious. The two-deck interior featured dining rooms, private compartments and sleeping sections. However, this glamorous era of the Clippers was brought to an abrupt halt by the outbreak of World War II. By the end of the war, technological advances in airplane design had made the Clippers obsolete and the Marine Air Terminal was converted for the newer airplanes.

Today, the Marine Air Terminal is used by commuter airlines, air taxis, private aircraft, Sheltair Aviation Services (a fixed base operator) and a private weather service. The Delta Shuttle uses the terminal for arriving and departing flights.

Suggested Additions:

If you do not have another airport texture addon, I suggest that you download and install airland1.zip from AVSIM or elsewhere.  It increases frame rates while adding detail to the concrete and asphalt aprons, taxiways, and runways.

AI propliner and GA traffic matching this scenery is available separately from www.calclassic.com (AI Aircraft page).  

Credits:

Airport surfaces created with AFCAD2, by Lee Swordy - thanks Lee!

Produced using SceneGenX by Tom Hiscox, GMAX by Discreet, ExcBuilder by Paavo Pihelgas, Ground2K4, EZ-Scenery by Konstantin Kukushkin (Abacus).  Thanks to all!


INSTALLATION

This EXE installer will NOT create a Start Menu entry, registry entry, uninstall program
or anything else, other than copying the relevant files to the proper folders.  You may
install to a temporary folder by pressing the ... button and copying things by hand if you wish.

1. ***IMPORTANT*** Download and install the scenery libraries contained in the Classic Scenery Libraries v4 (files 1 and 2) as compiled by Wolfgang Gersch from http://www.calclassic.com/scenery.htm, if you have not done so already.

2. Download and install the EZ-Scenery Libraries, available from: http://www.abacuspub.com/pub/AbacusEZLibraries.exe

3.  Open this KLGA_1959.zip file archive by double clicking it.  You will find this text file and a file called Setup.exe.

4. Double click the Setup.exe file to start the installation.  Press 
the Run button at the warning screen.  If it doesn't find your FS2004 folder automatically, 
press the ... button and browse to it.  Then follow the instructions to install.

NOTE FOR NEXT STEPS:  If you have already installed some of the CalClassic scenery packages, 
you may have at least some of the required scenery layers installed.  If so, skip that 
step (see below).

5. Start FS2004, and go to the Settings/Scenery Library choice on the 
opening screen.  If you are currently flying, press Escape (Esc) and then End 
Flight to get to this screen. Look at the top portion of the list.  

6.  If there is no La Guardia 1959 area listed there, click on the Add Area button.  
Double click the ADDON SCENERY folder.  Click the La Guardia 1959 folder once.  
Click OK.  If using Windows 7 or later, click the white area of the box to finish 
the process.

7.  If you have any addon scenery for La Guardia airport, jetways, etc. uncheck 
that scenery's Active box to inactivate it.

8.  Click OK.  Quit and restart FS.

9.  If at the main screen, choose Create Flight at the left, select desired items, and
press Fly Now.  Choose Options/Settings/Display.  Under Scenery Objects set the
Scenery Density to Dense or less (setting to Very or Extremely Dense will display modern
jetways at default airports).  Also, set the Autogen Density to Dense or less 
(any higher may display telephone poles in odd places at the airports); this will also 
simulate the less dense cities found in the era.  Click OK.

10.  OPTIONAL:  If you use the Long Island Coastlines package by Dan Baisley (longislc.zip) copy the files found in the FS2004/Addon Scenery/LaGuardia 1959/scenery/If using Long Island Coastlines folder and paste them into the FS2004/Addon Scenery/LaGuardia 1959/scenery folder, overwriting the original files.  The Long Island Coastlines layer in the Scenery Library should be placed below all other addon scenery layers.

NOTE: This file, AI Traffic for this scenery (and the world), and lots of classic 
airliners can be downloaded free from Tom Gibson's Classic Airliner web site at - 
http://www.calclassic.com
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