In our travel roundup this week: How a forgotten airport was once the gateway to Europe and the tale of a 19th-century waterway that became “the heart of the universe.” Aviation history Croydon Airport, near London, was once the gateway to Europe, opening up commercial air travel and breaking world records. But after a lifetime of glamor, hosting notables such as Charlie Chaplin, John F.
Kennedy and Charles Lindbergh, it faded into obscurity. Here’s why it shouldn’t be forgotten. Concorde, the legendary supersonic plane, was built in Bristol, England, and Toulouse, France.
Flight engineer Warren Hazelby talked to CNN last year about what it was like to operate the pointy pioneer. For a while in the 1950s, Canada also had supersonic ambitions. Here’s how the Avro Arrow interceptor dream became a national nightmare .
Trump’s global ambitions US President Donald Trump had no shortage of surprising moves in the first week of his return to power, including signing executive orders restoring the name of the Alaskan mountain Denali to Mount McKinley and renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America . The engineering marvel that is the Panama Canal has also been in his sights , with Trump asserting that it should be returned to the United States. Here’s how this incredible piece of infrastructure became “the heart of the universe.
” Trump has also mused about America taking over Greenland, an autonomous crown territory of Denmark, which has protested that its Ar.
