Re: One Story Assembly Plant What If?
Posted by Steve203 On 2014/5/17 21:12:21
<i>Thus evolved Detroit Metropolitan Airport which was much closer in, but still considered out in the sticks for those times.</i>
If I trace a path from the bomber plant to Middlebelt, where the entrance to Metro used to be, it's about 15 miles.
For chuckles, I found a photo of Metro, or "Detroit-Wayne Major Airport", from 1949. There is a subdivision on the west side of Middlebelt just north of the highway. I looked on a current satellite photo. The streets of that subdivision are still there, but almost all the houses are gone. Guess they didn't like living right under the approch to the runways.
<i>I am told that the Packard company plane was kept for a time at Willow Run, but I know it was also at Detroit City Airport for a long time.</i>
Packard did a lot of work in aircraft engines in the 20s, using both City Airport and a runway in the infield of the high speed track at PPG. for test flights. I learned some time back that the PT boat engines were developed from an aircraft engine Packard designed in the late 20s. The Henry Ford museum had a plane with one of Packard's experimental diesels on display in the 60s.
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If I trace a path from the bomber plant to Middlebelt, where the entrance to Metro used to be, it's about 15 miles.
For chuckles, I found a photo of Metro, or "Detroit-Wayne Major Airport", from 1949. There is a subdivision on the west side of Middlebelt just north of the highway. I looked on a current satellite photo. The streets of that subdivision are still there, but almost all the houses are gone. Guess they didn't like living right under the approch to the runways.
<i>I am told that the Packard company plane was kept for a time at Willow Run, but I know it was also at Detroit City Airport for a long time.</i>
Packard did a lot of work in aircraft engines in the 20s, using both City Airport and a runway in the infield of the high speed track at PPG. for test flights. I learned some time back that the PT boat engines were developed from an aircraft engine Packard designed in the late 20s. The Henry Ford museum had a plane with one of Packard's experimental diesels on display in the 60s.
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