Flight Over Midtown Size:20" x 25" This photo was published on

This photo was published on the front page of The New York Times on October 24

They needed a man on a wire to inaugurate the resumed construction on the world's largest Gothic cathedral

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Flight Over Midtown Size:20" x 25" This photo was published onA pilot named Ted Herbert goes for a spin over midtown Manhattan in February 1937. He is operating a new type of sport plane dubbed a "flivver" in The New York Times, which houses a V 8 automobile engine. This latest invention would reportedly solve New York's traffic problems since the engine "could be taken from a Ford and installed in the plane when the owner decides to quit the road and take to the air." Mr. Herbert reportedly flew out of