With the possible exception of Ohio, no other state is more synonymous with aviation Connecticut. Inextricably linked to many of the world's most prestigious aircraft, engines, propellers and manufacturers and is promoted by people such as Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Pratt and Whitney, Chance Vought, Avco Lycoming, Hamilton Standard, United Technologies and the community. Many of his valuable contributions can be seen visiting his interest in aviation.
National HelicopterMuseum
Avco Lycoming located between Stratford and at one end of the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, on the other, and is located in the abandoned, 48 feet in length Railroad North East underground station, the National Helicopter Museum traces the historical evolution of the Technological and rotorcraft.
Idea of Dr. Raymond E. Jankovich, a pediatrician, and Robert McCloud, founder of the newspaper The Stratford Bard, was designed in 1978 for hisHelicopter associated position and potential benefit to the city. The reality was cemented by a grant from Avco Lycoming.
Billing itself as the only museum as for airplanes, rotorcraft, and inaugurated in 1983 completely by volunteers, many of whom are former Sikorsky employee to run, and offers a chronological photo essay displays, models, and some sections, the cell work together in designing the nature of helicopter, the flight had tried traditionalto emulate the 21 Century.
The same helicopter traces its origins to fly on China tops already registered in the fourth century BC. Composed of short round stick, used "Blade helicopters" or shovel-like, with springs. Rotated back and forth and rubbed or pulled by a string, turned and bent lift generated sources, which rise vertically.
Leonardo da Vinci also made numerous sketches of gliders beating of wings,Parachutes and propellers with a load of people who have lives by ropes to force the air through which he leads the theory "when the force to move faster than the air create escape without resistance, in the manner of compressed air this spring are compressed and crushed by the weight of a sleeper. And that has pushed the air resistance can be found in it a way to bounce a ball to hit a wall. "
The museum itself, "In the Beginning" displayillustrates these concepts early. It 'was the first rotary-wing boomerang on the top of the prehistoric and Chinese out there stranded Vinci, the first recorded design "helicopter".
His "first dreams" drawings from 1843, show is round, like a fan and side-by-side rotors, while those produced by Sir George Cayley was flat and forms a wing in flight.
The "Early Prophets" survey shows that the first successful ascent of a powered 40-foot altitude reached by a 20-secondFlight.
A 60-rotor helicopter, designed by Gustave Whitehead in 1911, appears in the collection "First Sikorsky", while the '"International Achievement" panel shows the period of evolution between 1930 and 1935.
Prof. EH Henrich, as evidenced by the "German dominance" panel, a new company for his dreams of designing a helicopter, after pursuing a lead designer Focke-Wulf, and did 28 seconds of flight June 26, 1936.
A mural with the title"The birth of the first flight" and was given by the Sikorsky plant is a brief chronology of his drawings, starting with the VS-300-V1 in 1942.
Motor development can be found from "The Revolution gas turbine." The steam engine, for example, has had to bear too much weight on the famous structural technology vertical lift, but the gasoline engine lighter, appear shortly after the turn-of-the-century building has been used ubiquitously. The engine relatively light, but powerful rotary wasused for experiments in 1920 by helicopter, the entire engine block rotates around a stationary crankshaft and thus the production of meaning, creates the flow of cooling air cylinder.
The "State of Art of Craft" survey reveals significant helicopter manufacturers, including Sikorsky, Bell, Hughes, Kaman, Piasecki, Boeing Vertol and Robinson, while half a dozen windows characteristic of rotary wing models.
Despite the small size of the museum, artifact, limitingDoor, shows a series of recent helicopter components. The main rotor of an S-58, for example, weight 110 pounds and measuring 28 feet from its center of rotation is seen near a Sikorsky S-76 assembly of the tail rotor blades. Avco Lycoming engines include a T800-APW-800 and a turbine T55-L-714, driven like designs like the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, Model 234, the MH-47E Chinook, and the model 360 also includes a RAH-66 " shadow "Commanche fly-by-wire test SikorskyMockup, and the cockpit section of a Sikorsky S-76 in utility / offshore-oil-configuration, the design has a hull length of 43.4 meters, a 44-foot diameter rotor and is 155 knots forward to achieve flight speed.
The museum offers a small but precious space through the rotary wing technology and history, which is often taken for granted in aerospace studies, but here in Stratford individually responsible for its existence can be explored.
New England Air Museum
The hotel is located in Windsor Locks nextBradley International Airport, the New England Air Museum, the largest such facility in the North East Aviation, presenting more than 80 aircraft, often focusing on air transport services in Connecticut, about 75,000 square meters of indoor exhibition space, which is divided in three hangars. His complete collection includes 125 cells and 200 engines.
The Hangar Military Show, for example - with a focus on pure-jets - the Republic of features such as aircraft 105BThunderchief, P-47D Thunderbolt Republic, North American F-86F Sabre, the F-14B Tomcat Grumman, Fairchild / Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II, and the North American F-100A Super Sabre.
His first design, a Sikorsky S-16 biplane, dates back to 1915. With a length of 19.33 meters and 26.25 meters wingspan, the fighter, with a 897-pound curb weight, resting on a gear wheel quad main landing gear wheel and tail area to facilitate smooth, and it was first with a propellerarc synchronized machine gun. Speed has reached 74-mph speed limit.
World War II-era fighters, the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat and Vought F4U-4 Corsair Connecticut, it wears proudly showed his classic inverted gull-wing and prop appear oversized. Example of the museum is the name of a famous naval pilot who fought in the Pacific Theater, "Pappy Boyington".
World War II bomber, as represented by the North American B-25H Mitchell, the high-wing,twin-engine medium-range aircraft that had served on all fronts with the Air Force, Navy, and several countries, including England, France, China and the Soviet Union, in the role of low-and middle-level bombers, submarine-patrol and traffic, and flew with the famous Doolittle Raid. The New England Air Museum is an example of this is the last surviving B-25H variant and the most widely used by the allied armed with a.75 mm cannon nose, eight forward-caliber machine facing.50Six.50 caliber weapons back, life and the tail turret-mounted machine guns.
Several rotorcraft including the UH-1B Bell Iroquois, the Kaman K-225, HH-43H and Kaman, complete the collection.
Harvey H. Lippincott, Civil Aviation Hangar shines with some rare gems.
Silas H. Brooks, basket ball, for example, is both the oldest survivor of a trash can and lighter than air craft in the world. Brooks, of Plymouth, Connecticut, built andflew his balloon over Hartford and New Haven, a five meters long, 200-pound-hosted wicker basket made in about 1870 Today you can see in a glass case at the entrance of the building.
Another piece of pioneer, built a replica of a Curtiss Pusher Model D biplane 1912 Howard Bunce, the museum is the oldest surviving aircraft which are heavier and one that was on the ground were born Connecticut.
The result of his multiple inspections Model D, it first appeared on paperlike his sketches before going into details, and then assembled, a non-standard four-cylinder, air-cooled Nels J. Nelson, New Britain, Connecticut led constructed sublimated. Although there are only a few meters above the ground had risen and then crashed to the exhibition in Berlin because of inadequate performance, lent itself to a second copy in the form of parts cannibalized, and this example, discovered in a barn in 1962 were made by the museum with an exhibition of 30 hp KempI-4 engine.
Other projects include a pioneering monoplane Bleriot XI from 1909 and a special Nixon in 1918.
Another part of the lighter than air craft on display is a Goodyear ZNP-K self-control by a K-28 non-rigid airship in 1942, and two floors with A representing Gee Bee Model 1930 A, 1930 A Laird LC-DW 300 solution, and A 1933 Viking "Kitty Hawk" Model B-8.
Two historically significant aircraft of the first piston are also visible.
The first of these, the Lockheed 10AElectra is a low-wing twin-engine, ten passengers, rear wheel design that the manufacturer was the first all-metal cell, and formed the basis for the largest L-14 and L-18 Lodestar. The museum, for example, with serial number 1052, was initially the U.S. Navy was delivered in 1936 for use as staff transport.
The second, just two engines, aircraft wheels tail, the Douglas DC-3, which produces the massive, multi-role military and civil design,For the first time the supplier to generate a profit only in the transport of passengers and has revolutionized the airline industry. Dubbed "one of the four most important weapons of the Second World War" by General Eisenhower, or the layers of the sky more than three quarters of a century after it first took it.
Museum's DC-3, with over 53400 hours in the air, his log book, with different capacities, first served in a military role as a transport C-47 and then in a spotwith Eastern Airlines, Purdue University, and a series of small carriers.
Center and flagship of the hangar for aviation, however, is both the largest cell in him and the only surviving example of Connecticut-Sikorsky VS-designed and built Excambrian 44A. One of three in 1942 for the American Export Airlines non-stop transatlantic routes, the high wing, four-engine, long-range aircraft flying boat hull with a 79.25 meters long, 124 meters arc completed and57 500 pounds gross weight was obtained for the war operations, passenger and cargo priority among Army and Navy contracts before serving with some charter airlines. Damage has resulted in his 1968 collection service.
Broke from the Gulf of Mexico in Bridgeport, has undergone a restoration by the team of Sikorsky employees who had been instrumental in its original construction.
Today the plane, draped in its original American Export AirlinesLivery, bristles with a first glance work rolls.
Another handy and only 58 in this case the heart Bomb Wing Memorial Hangar is the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the hangar, even after the wing, which he called decisive Japanese defeat in World War II. The stylish silver, 135,000 pounds, four-engine, 3250 miles bomber extends 99 feet long and features a 141.25-meter wingspan, and carries 11 crew members. Drop the atomic bomb on Japan, has completed the finalCurtain on the Pacific theater.
Out there, ready to passengers as expected, Sud-Aviation Caravelle SE.210, is the world's first short-range, pure-jet airliner. With the nose section was originally developed for the de Havilland Comet, swept low, low-wing, triangular window of the front passenger, two aft-mounted Rolls Royce Avon, as well as a tail-Cross of Lorraine, the plane as elegant as the basis Most later served bioreactor configurations, such as the British AircraftGroup-BAC-111, the McDonnell-Douglas DC-9, Fokker F.28 and the Fellowship. Two hundred and eighty Caravelles all versions were built.
He donated Operated by United Airlines, Sterling Airways of Denmark, and small package carrier Airborne Express, found the way to the museum after his support them.
Apart from the air the New England Air Museum, several thematic exhibitions, which showcase some of the contributions Connecticut aviation, including "History ofSikorsky Aircraft "," Lafayette Squadron "," AVG Flying Tigers "," leaflet Tuskegree "and" History of the Pratt and Whitney. "There is also a theater aviation pioneer.
Days open cockpit, computer simulators, tours, speakers, special events, workshops, educational programs, a research library and a significant aviation Wings' n Things gift shop complete their offer.
Sikorsky Memorial Airport
The roots of the grass-covered slope area of Avon, who hadfirst experiment was in favor of planes and had hosted the first air shows in the country in 1911, Sikorsky Memorial Airport, a public facility in Stratford, later known as "Field Mollison" 1933 crashed after landing there by Captain Jim Mollison, during his Transatlantic attempt.
Despite his position had been renamed "Bridgeport Municipal Airport" four years later, when the town of Bridgeport had even bought.
Because of the prevalence of ConnecticutManufacturers of engines and aircraft, had as part of the "arsenal of democracy" during World War II and was later renamed "Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport" in 1972 in honor of the man who transformed the city was the birthplace of ' helicopter, and whose work was largely responsible for the expansion.
Today, its facilities include a passenger terminal with check-in, three doors, a restaurant and car rental, general aviationTerminal, hangars and a private two-lane landing - 0.677 4-foot Runway 6 / 24 and 4761 meters of runway 11/29. There is also a 40 - by 40-foot helipad.
Progressive Suspension Service will hold three regional airlines, including Continental Connection, in 1994, Delta Connection, in 1997, and U.S. Airways Express in 1999, because the current takeoff runway lengths and more profitable operations prohibited, even if he had planned commercial rotary wing service was back after seven yearsRange of U.S. helicopter with its roots back to the operation of helicopters from downtown New York City heliport. Wiggins Airways, FedEx and courier supply goods to the field.
During the period of 12 months to 28 February 2007 recorded 77 617 Sikorsky Memorial Airport operations and had 241-based aircraft, of which 72 percent were single-engine, 11 percent were multi-engine turbine were 15 percent and two percent have been turnedWing.
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