TWA's Kansas City Overhaul Base at its peak in the 1960s and 1970s was Kansas City's largest employer, with 6,000 employees.Īlthough Mid-Continent merged with Braniff in 1952, Kansas City decided to name the new airport on the basis of Mid-Continent's historic roots (serving the Mid-continent Oil Field). The first runway opened in 1956 at about the same time the city donated the southern Grandview Airport to the United States Air Force to become Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base. Cookingham Drive is now the main access road to the airport. The site just north of the then-unincorporated hamlet of Hampton, Missouri was picked in May 1953 (with an anticipated cost of $23 million) under the guidance of City Manager L.P. TWA moved its Fairfax plant to the new airport and also its overseas overhaul operations at New Castle County Airport in Delaware. Dillingham, president of the Kansas City Stockyards, which had also been destroyed in the flood.
Kansas City already owned Grandview Airport south of the city with ample room for expansion, but the city chose to build a new airport north of the city away from the Missouri River following lobbying by Platte County native Jay B. Kansas City was planning to build an airport with room for 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runways and knew the downtown airport would not be large enough. TWA's main overhaul base was a former B-25 bomber factory at Fairfax, although TWA commercial flights flew out of the main downtown airport.
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Global Village remembers George Harrison on his birthday with the music he did with The Beatles, on solo albums, and as a guest artist with Ravi Shankar - plus covers of his songs from BeatleJazz, Soulive, the Easy Star All-Stars, the Skatalites, Larry Coryell and more.Kansas City Industrial Airport was built after the Great Flood of 1951 destroyed the facilities of both of Kansas City's hometown airlines Mid-Continent Airlines and TWA at Fairfax Airport across the Missouri River from the city's main Kansas City Municipal Airport (which was not as badly damaged). We also head to Mexico for Los Rurales and Canada for a new album from the Heavyweights Brass Band. – among them, the Funky Butt Brass Band, Black Masala, the Raya Brass Band, and in a jazzier vein, trombonist Ray Anderson’s Pocket Brass Band. We’ll also hear other bands from across the U.S. Of course, the Crescent City is represented with music from the pioneering Dirty Dozen Brass Band and later groups like the Rebirth Brass Band. In conjunction with the February Global Brass Bands feature, Global Village devotes this show to contemporary brass bands of North America. We’ll hear music from guitar hero and English folk-rock pioneer Richard Thompson, the eclectic Afro Celt Sound System, the U.K.’s Rheingans Sisters, Estbel from Estonia, Canadian singer-songwriter Jon Brooks, the Quebecois group Genticorum, Scotland’s Talisk, and acclaimed Cajun band BeauSoleil. Global Village hosts a little folk fest this time, with traditional, contemporary, and folk fusion sounds. We’ll hear music from groups he cofounded (Transglobal Underground, Dub Colossus) and worked with (Temple of Sound, Samuel Yirga, Syriana) in this special edition of the show. Global Village remembers Nick Page (aka Dubulah), the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and bandleader who passed away last year.
Global Village celebrates Presidents’ Day with music from artists who ran for or won the office of president – including Dizzy Gillespie, Fela, Rubén Blades, and Michel Martelly – plus Les Ambassadeurs (because every president has some), and Brenda Fassie’s tribute to South African President, Nelson Mandela.