If flying was to supplant driving, airplanes would have to be able to land and take off in the middle of towns and cities. Many promoters of this dream envisioned facilities to make this possible. Here the chief engineer of Los Angles, O.R. Angelillo demonstrates a model skyscraper air terminal. Twelve stories high and 980 feet by 152feet at the base, the combined office building and airfield was expected to cost ten million dollars but never was built.

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