Falcon Field Advertising Analysis

Falcon Field, This historic part of Arizona was built in Mesa in 1941 with many factors contributing to its construction (Arizona Aircraft Wrecks). The Construction of Falcon Field started with Mesa’s Major George N. Goodman talking with local military officers and saying that construction of this airfield would cost the city of Mesa $50000 dollars to build (BREAK GROUND). While at Falcon Field there would be a large building housing the kitchen and the mess hall, and to the right of it was the control tower for the military airport (FALCON FIELD). Furthermore, Falcon Field would be built on 720 acres of land donated by the city of Mesa- which was already funding it (BREAK GROUND). Falcon Field would also have many “carpenter and plasters” …show more content…
The people of Mesa changed when the Royal Air Force Pilots came. One example is the advertisement built specifically for them. One advertisement said, “Welcome RAF! Make the friendly Apache fountain you meeting place in Mesa”(Advertisement directed). Further advertisement for Fall weather clothing said “R.A.F have come to Mesa!... Coats... $12.95 - $29.95”(Advertisement directed). These advertisements show that the shopkeepers of Mesa made specific advertisements to the Royal Air Force pilots to gain more profits. Furthermore, The intake of “Four Thousand Officers and Men” will put a “Tremendous load” on the city of Mesa to deal with (Unbounded Confusion). One way they dealt with it where people were asked to house Royal Air Force cadets, “Want British Boy As Guest?”(Want British Boy) having British military officials stay at other people’s houses like this shows the community that was created by having Falcon Field built-in Mesa. The population of Mesa also changed, in the 1930’s before the war, Mesa had only 3,711 people during the 1940’s that number soared to 7,224 a 94.7% increase in population (FactFinder). The population increased because of the new military base in Mesa- Falcon Field. The postal service also increased over time because of the increased population, “Postal Rush Grows” according to Mesa Journal-Tribune Newspaper(POSTAL RUSH). This growth in the postal service is …show more content…
Problems that did occur were the validation of the year Falcon Field was built. Many sources said different dates but after heavy research, the date it was built was in 1941. The sources were a mix of both Primary and secondary sources. Some sources had a biased view but none had it to an extent that bogged down the searching machine that was finding the data. When searching for everyone’s perspective it was hard to find it. Almost all views were in the positive for Falcon Field and the Royal Air Force cadets. There was little to no arguments against the pilots or the Airfield. This, of course, is not true there are always people who are against a certain idea but finding that information was not successful and could not be found. Groups that had little to no information on was the Pima Indians that worked for the airfield. It is seen in a photograph that they did work there but any other information on them could not be found. There was a lack of information on the Royal Air Force numbers. when finding out information about their lives is easy, but how many were trained during one year or the other cannot be found. How fast did it take for the army to train these cadets? How many pilots came through the doors of Falcon Field to become pilots? the number questions on exact people could not be found. In addition to this, there was not a lack of reliable sources. Some had