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[[image No. 87 - black & white photograph of Hervey Law sitting in a WW I biplane]]

[[image No. 88 - black & white photograph of Hervey Law sitting in Curtiss Hydroplane]]

[[image No. 89 - black & white photograph of Abbey Wolf and Hervey Law on top of Port of New York Authority office building heliport]]

[[caption]] Hervey Law during World War 1 (87), and in Curtiss Hydroplane on Connecticut River, near Springfield, Mass., 1913 (88), when he was 14 years old. Atop Port of New York Authority office building heliport, New York City, 1955, the first of its kind in nation, with Abbey Wolf, left (89).[[/caption]]

Hervey Fuller Law

"My first real interest in aviation began in December, 1910, at the Los Angeles Air Meet.  Arch Hoxsey let me be his greasemonkey. The next month, I performed the same services for Charles F. Willard and Eugene Ely, when they performed in Pasadena."

Few men can claim a more creditable entree as a youngster, but when Hervey Law told his mother he wanted to enroll at the Curtiss Flying School, Newport News, Virginia, she wavered. "My God," she exploded, "I know you are going to your funeral," and demanded that he rush to the local studio and have his picture taken. When he walked away from his first crash with instructor Eddie Stinson, Hervey gleefully sent a photograph of the wreck.

At 18, he became a civilian instructor of Army pilots at Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, Long Island, and was probably the youngest man to assume such duties in the AviationSection of the SignalCorps during the First War.

With a B.S. degree in Landscape and Civil Engineering, Fuller eased into airport design, construction, and administration--a calling that has earned him world fame. In 1939, he toured the entire U.S. securing data for the first National Airport Plan, and for the next several years helped design and engineer more than 160 airports in 13 Eastern states. The diamond in his crown was appointment as first General Manager of Airports, Port of New York Authority.

[[image - drawing of propeller]]

Hervey Fuller Law: born Springfield, Mass., December 26, 1898.

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