The history of planes in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Aviation in Albuquerque and in New Mexico was booming in the early 1900's. By 1913 some pilots were  using a simple landing strip at the end of the University of New Mexico. In 1928, two Santa Fe rail road employes  built a private airport in Albuquerque using equipment from the city and they made two run ways on  the east mesa four miles from downtown. In the ten years from 1920-1930 Albuquerque grew from 15,000 to 26,000 people. Some people saw Albuquerque as a cross roads location. The two competing  airports eventually join to make TWA the first national airline to fly out of New Mexico.  In 1955 TWA flight 260 became an historic  flight that crashed into the the Sandia Peak (the watermelon mountains). Later that year the city was talking about making a public airport with WPA money. The airport opens with two paved run ways and a pueblo style terminal building. In April 1941 a B-22 bomber lands on the strip. Today this is  known as Kirtland Airforce Base. In 1962 President John F. Kennedy  visits Sandia National labs for a weapons debriefing. In 1965 construction is completed on a building called  The Albuquerque International Sunport.


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motorcycles

Motorcycles and New Mexico

In 1926 when Route 66 was produced as a stretch of highway from Chicago all the way to Los Angeles, California. Route 66 passed through Albuquerque. According to the Albuquerque transit history Route 66 made a big curve in New Mexico because it followed already existing roads. The route went through Santa Rosa after it came through Tucumcari and then went on to Santa Fe. The Old 66 used to go down Fourth Street and then to Gallup and for the next 880 miles to Los Angeles. In 1937 the curve was redrawn and Central became the new 66 and it was paved!

            Motorcycles have always been part of the Route 66 culture and the New Mexico culture. The weather is beautiful and the scenery is even more spectacular. The Harley Davidson is probably the most popular motorcycle in New Mexico and has a long history. Howard Roper who lived from 1823 to 1896 invented a motorcycle powered by coal that was the first two-cycle steam engine motorcycle (Subaru-Official website).

            In 1885 a German named Gottlieb invented was a wooden frame attached to a gas engine. The engine that Daimler used was invented by Nicolaus Otto who built the first four-stroke internal combustion engine (Subaru-Official website). After these inventers went on to invent cars two brothers and William Harley developed the motorcycle. The brothers were named Davidson and their company became Harley Davidson. The motorcycle had a quality engine and was used for racing but was also manufactured as a transport motorcycle. As a result the first official Harley-Davidson dealership opened in Chicago. These machines that could travel at 58 miles per hour rapidly moved west. The Harley Davidson was used for World War I and even was bought by Poncho Villa and his fighters and shipped to Mexico for the Revolution. The Harley-Davidson survived the Great Depression and moved on to World War II (Harley-Davidson History). New Mexico has always been a part of the War Movements with Los Alamos Labs and the development of the atomic bomb, Sandia Labs, and the testing facility for the atomic bomb. The Harley-Davidson has grown side by side with New Mexico and its people.

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http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/motorcycle.htm 

http://www.wheelsmuseum.org/011505.html 

http://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/news.php?id=42 

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http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/motorcycle.htm

http://www.wheelsmuseum.org/011505.html

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Santa Fe Trail

     Highway in NewMexico have a long history, especially the Santa Fe Trail. The Trail way was the one of the most important highway in New Mexico. It became America's first great international commercial highway in 1821, and for nearly sixty years after, the Santa Fe Trail became one of the nation's great routes of adventure and western expansion. It was an ancient passageway used by merchant-traders who took manufactured goods to Santa Fe in exchange for furs and other items available in Santa Fe. Also the Mexican traders provided caravans to go to western Missouri in this international trade.

     Basically there are two kinds of route on the Santa Fe Trail. The first route is the Mountain Route. The mountain route(long route) of the Santa Fe was 230 miles of unprotected campsites between Fort Larned and Fort Lyon in Colorado. It followed the Arkansas River into Colorado before turning south. The second route is the Jornada Route. The Jornada Route is very dry and has less water.(desert route). It stretchs cuts southwest at Cimarron Crossing and other Arkansas River crossings. This route saved ten days and would carry75% of all future trade. And lots of traders went and back to used this route for trading their goods.

     In 1821, William Becknell, the trader who came from Missouri, first to follow the route that later became known as the Santa Fe Trail. He used his mule train to pass through Morris County, later became known as Council Grove. The Santa Fe Trail was established to transport freight from Kansas City to Santa Fe, New Mexico and to trade with the spanish. Also in 1822, William Becknell found a good mode of transportation and a passable wagon route. So he started using wagons for take trade goods over the Santa Fe Trail, instead of mule train or horses. and when the time past. People start to call him as the Father of the Santa Fe Trail.

     

     The Santa Fe Trail start heavily used when the Mexican War begin. Because of the large military supplies. it was transported from the Missouri River Towns to the Southwest. Santa Fe Trail was the main transportation route until 1872. When the Santa Fe Railroad became the Colorado border, the days of the Santa Fe Trail as a main transportation route were over.

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