The restaurant is near the 1929 hangar that once housed Curtiss Wright Flying Service. The firm's name came from aviation pioneers, Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur. Many people remember the restaurant as the Red Baron with an aviation motif. For three years it has been JB Milano's with nary a decoration associated with aviation. The Cuyahoga County field is also called Robert D. Shea Airport.
Bigger airport eating spots are more frenzied.
Bomber squadron restaurants at Akron-Canton, Cleveland Hopkins and Port Columbus are fun. Amelia Earhart suggested the name when 99 charter members signed up. After the famed aviatrix disappeared on a Pacific flight in 1937, a scholarship honored her. The 1948 winner was Akron schoolteacher Jean Hixson, who was in the WASPs. She died in 1984.