On January 18, 1911, the first landing on a ship was completed on the third attempt in San Francisco bay using a specially constructed landing platform built on the fantail of the battleship USS Pennsylvania On October 5, 1914, a French pilot made the first air-to-air kill in a Voisin …

When Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport began commercial air service in 1946 it was the largest commercial airport in the United States, twice the size of LaGuardia, NY, or the Chicago airports New Orleans is home to both the longest continually operating cathedral and restaurant in the U.S. Contrary …

North, south, east, and west mean nothing in New Orleans; use uptown, downtown, riverside, and lakeside for reference instead New Orleans’ City Park is the largest municipal park in the country At 20, New Orleans has the largest number of historic districts of any U.S. city Even today people of …