EARLY DAYS OF AVIATION - 1933 - Model of a SEADROME airport with hotel , planned for the middle of the Atlantic (designer Edward Robert Armstrong (1876–1955). He was a Canadian-American engineer and inventor who in 1927 proposed a series of similar "seadrome" floating airport platforms for planes making transatlantic flights. Though they were never built, the principals of design were used in the construction of maritime oil rigs

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