Talk:Bader Field

Cessna Citation Jet (Registration) OY-JET crash off runway
In May 2005 a Citation jet landing downwind on the Bader airport ran off the runway into the bay. The event was captured on video, viewable in many places on the web. It would be very interesting to note that event here. It's a very interesting situation. The airport diagram was attached to the pilot's control column stating the airport was "closed to jet traffic."

Also of interest is the fact that the jet was owned by Weibel Scientific, a world leader in doppler radar. Curiously, one of their foremost contributions to world science is to supply radar to NASA for the purposes of tracking falling debris during nighttime shuttle launches.

This information traced to an article in Lloyd's Casualty Week - May 27, 2005 according to the discussion found here: http://sunairexpress.com/saxforum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=404

Wiebel Website, with reference to their radar expertise http://www.weibel.dk/pageView.aspx?ID=113&pageid=43&SubMenuID=dropmenu2&GrandMenuID=0&ParentMenuID=dropmenu2

Weibel Scientific - Aviation Safety Network citation of jet accident http://aviation-safety.net/database/operator/airline.php?var=7615

The plane's replacement is a Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign, registered as OY-WET. http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=OY-WET&distinct_entry=true Gungasdindin (talk) 04:36, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

First use of word "airport"
The assertion that the 1919 reference to the Bader airport is the first use of the word is is disputed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amckie (talk • contribs) 19:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


 * That's putting it mildly. The sources listed for the claim that the first use of the word “air-port” referred to the Atlantic City Municipal Airport were a September 26, 2006 article by Geoff Mulvihill of the Associated Press and a piece by Barbara Harris-Para for “Inside the Fence”, a Federal Aviation Administration newsletter. Neither source was fact-checked. Neither source was accurate.
 * Mulvihill wrote: “In the early days of flight, planes took off and landed plenty of places. But it wasn't until 1919 that the name for those places was born: A newspaper referred to Atlantic City's Bader Field, a strip of land surrounded on three sides by water, as an "air-port.””
 * Nope. First of all, there was no “Bader Field” in 1919. It wasn’t until after Mayor Edward L. Bader died in 1927 that the airport was renamed in his honor. More to the point, on page 2 of the June 20, 1912 edition of the New York Sun, in an article entitled “The Passenger in a Zeppelin Airship”, the author describes boarding a dirigible in Germany, and he includes this line: “It is difficult to believe that this is not the seaport of Cuxhaven, but the great airport of Frankfort (sic).” True, he wasn’t talking about fixed-wing aircraft, but the seed was planted.
 * An editorial in the March 5, 1913 edition of the Manchester Guardian, describing the UK’s Aerial Navigation Acts, reports “The rules governing the entry of privately-owned aircraft from abroad seem to be modelled mainly on maritime regulations, with such special precautions and provisions as the differences in physical conditions require. Chief among these is the creation of eight air-ports, specially prescribed areas along the east and south coasts, at which alone our territorial air may be entered by navigators from abroad.” This is the first appearance of “air-port” with the hyphen in any newspaper.
 * Page 18 of the January 14, 1917 issue of the New York Times features this headline: "COL. SQUIER URGES NATIONAL AIRPORTS”. And the story leads with, “The day is near when the great cities in this country will have municipal reservations for the parking of airplanes, when the Post Office Department will send mail-carrying flying machines hundreds of miles to sea to meet incoming liners, when airports will be as common almost as seaports, and when it will be easier and as safe to fly across the Continent in an airplane as it is now to cross it in an automobile.” Weeks later, in an editorial published in multiple papers, the very same Col. Squier, head of the U.S. Army’s aviation section, wrote: “If we are laying out a city anew now, it would be wise to provide plenty of space for airplanes. In other words, I think we must begin to think of our interior cities as air-port towns.”
 * In “Inside the Fence”, Barbara Harris-Para wrote: “Bader Field was the first municipal airport in the U.S. for both land and seaplanes, and became the world’s first “air-port” in 1919. A local newsman, Robert Woodhouse, coined the term, which referred to the aero marine “Flying Limousines,” a passenger service between New York and Atlantic City that was inaugurated under the auspices of the Hotel Traymore.” Robert V. Poricelli inflated this mystery author to “famed journalist Robert Woodhouse” in his Images of America book “Naval Air Station Atlantic City”.
 * Spoiler alert: There was no journalist, famed or otherwise, named Robert Woodhouse. One of the members of the Aero Club of Atlantic City, Henry Woodhouse, was also the editor and publisher of “Aerial Age Weekly”, and he used the May 5, 1919 issue of his magazine to trumpet the opening of the airport (which the Aero Club helped to build). But again, the term had been in use for at least 7 years by then. So no, he didn’t coin it. Clamdigger7 (talk) 17:26, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

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Presidential Visits
The only two presidents to have landed at Bader Field were Kennedy and Johnson, both using Marine One.

Teddy Roosevelt left office in March of 1909 and died in January of 1919, four months before the airport opened.

Taft left office in March of 1913, six years before the airport opened.

Harding - September 11, 1921 - drove in from Philadelphia.

Coolidge never traveled to Atlantic City as president.

Hoover never traveled to Atlantic City as president (though as Sec. of Commerce, he accompanied Harding on his 1921 trip).

FDR never traveled to Atlantic City as president.

Truman never traveled to Atlantic City as president.

Eisenhower - June 9, 1959 - Arrived at Naval Air Station in Pomona, then drove into the city ["20,000 Cheer Ike As Special Car Rides Through Resort", Herald-News, June 10, 1959]

Nixon - June 22, 1971 - Arrived at Naval Air Station in Pomona, then drove into the city.

Ford - October 27, 1976 - Arrived at Naval Air Station in Pomona, then drove into the city.

Carter - September 20, 1978 - Arrived at National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (the former Naval Air Station) in Pomona, then drove into the city.

Reagan - September 19, 1984 - Arrived at National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center in Pomona. Drove into Hammonton for a rally. Never visited Atlantic City proper as president.

George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush never traveled to Atlantic City as president.

Bader Field shut down for good in 2006. Clamdigger7 (talk) 17:11, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Walter Wellman/Airship "America"
The America didn't take off from Bader Field, which didn't exist in 1910. It was kept in a hangar by the inlet and towed by yacht just offshore before the moorings were cut and the airship took off from over the water. Clamdigger7 (talk) 18:53, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

First passenger service
The first passenger service, between New York and Atlantic City, was offered by the Travellers' Company - not by Glenn Curtiss. Clamdigger7 (talk) 19:05, 14 January 2023 (UTC)