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The Floating Airports We Never Got

Two real plans, neither would be successful for a while.

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Aug 22, 2026
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By the summer of 1926, one problem remained unsolved in aviation: nobody had flown nonstop from New York to Paris. A single page of The Sunday Star that August laid out one very fun idea, and another…

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