Well-mannered women were not supposed to engage in the daring and dangerous pursuit of aviation when a journalist named Harriet Quimby talked her editor into paying for her flying lessons in 1911.

(For the next several weeks, columnist Jim McKee will be contributing new columns on alternating weeks. On other weeks, the Journal Star will publish some of McKee's past columns. This one ran on Sept ...

If you live on Long Island, you've probably shopped at Roosevelt Field. And you may not have known it, but you were walking in the footsteps of aviation's pioneers. The site of the massive shopping ...