Back in the '80s, I used to write a newsletter for an aircraft trade school then called the Academy of Aeronautics (now the Vaughn College of Aeronautics) that trained young men (and they were all men in those days). The school was located across the Grand Central Parkway from LaGuardia Airport. When a small plane (I can't remember what kind) was donated to the school, it was flown into LGA and then was to be airlifted, dangling from a helicopter, across the highway. During those few minutes, the NYPD closed all eight lanes of traffic between the airport and the school. I tried desperately to interest the local television news and the three big New York daily newspapers to send a crew (TV) or photographer (print) to capture this remarkable sight in the middle of the day. No luck. It appeared in the AoA newsletter, and that was just about all.
Fast forward to 2010 and the Internet age. American Airlines donated an MD-80 to the George T. Baker Aviation School, similarly across a highway from Miami International Airport. A Florida construction and engineering company lifted the 39-ton plane across he highway using a 500-ton crane outfitted with a 400-foot telescoping boom. Photographer Joe Pries captured the procedure for airport authorities, and undoubtedly, everyone around with a cell phone got it too. I couldn't get a lone cameraman to LGA back then, and this photo is now all over the Internet.
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