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·occ HE T ____ c __ LA .- AND . ·., DIRECTOR HISTORY 1942-1962 •' TilE HISTORY OF B0·7 LAKE AIRPORT The first part of this article was furnished me by Chet Clausen, Port of Seattle (retired) Office Engineer who recorded the Informa- tion of the beginning of Bow Lake Airport in February, 1962-63. In the early forties, Seattle, like most of the nation's air-minded communities, who Here suffering. from an acute case of "Airportitis". Airliners carrying passengers and cargo eased carefully in~o Boeing Field, a landing strip built by Xing County in 1928 on drained land, close to sea level, where the Duwamish River flows into Puget Sound. If fog settled anywhere in the area, it could be counted on to sulk at the croHded Boeing Field. At that time, the ..ZI.irpo:ct ,.1as not con- sidered adaptable for instr~~ent landings because of meterological conditions and surrounding natural and man-made hazzards. The volume of co!:lmercial air traffic vas increasing. As airplanes grew faster, larger areas were needed to accommodate them. In view of the grm-;ing world tension, the Boeing Aircraft Factory was expanding rapidly and needed the :adjoining Boeing Field facilitie for its own use and for Army Air Force experimental and technical purposes. source: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: Reports on operations, 1953-1960 Sundry newspapers and magazine reports and articles. Donald G. Shay: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport As early as January, 1941, the aviation committee of the Seattle Chamber of Cor.u-:1erce concei•ed the idea of another major airport, for Seattle, and ir:1mediatelv…