I was surprised when Flying celebrated its 90th birthday last August. Could the magazine really be that old? Heck, am I really this old? And then I realized that daredevil aviators — followed by legions of prudent and prosaic corporate airplane drivers — have been launching themselves into the air from the Turkey Bottoms, aka Cincinnati’s Lunken Airport, for even longer than 90 years.
Unusual Attitudes: Turkey Bottoms, Lunkenheimers and Embry-Riddle
Key Takeaways:
- Cincinnati's Lunken Airport was established in 1928 on land donated by Edmund H. Lunken, growing into a significant early municipal airport despite its challenging "Turkey Bottoms" location prone to flooding and fog.
- The Lunken family legally changed their name from Lunkenheimer to Lunken in 1892 following an incident of anti-Semitic discrimination encountered by Frederick Lunkenheimer.
- The airport served as the original site for the flying school founded by Paul Riddle and T. Higbee Embry, which later evolved into the globally recognized Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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