![]() ![]() These skeptics left Wichita satisfied and endorsed the Air Capital as the primary location of B-29 production. air effort officials visited Wichita in August of 1940 to see if the Air Capital was all it claimed to be. General Henry Arnold, William Knudsen, and other U.S. The Chamber of Commerce declared Wichita as the Air Capital of the World as early as 1928. Kansas became the center of the aviation machine. In 1944 a take-off or landing occurred every 90 seconds at the Wichita Municipal Airport. ![]() World War II brought forth many dramatic changes but also enabled the growth of aviation and the final definition of Wichita as the Air Capital of the World. Kansas housed many aircraft companies: Travel Air, Boeing, Stearman Aircraft, Cessna, and Beech Aircraft (Hawker Beechcraft), so when wartime production induced a spike in the aeronautics industry, Kansas aviation companies willingly filled the gap and produced planes on an unprecedented level. December 8, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt appealed to Congress for an official declaration of war and with that declaration, the United States joined in the conflict of World War II. ![]()
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