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Except, perhaps, of Ohio, another state is no longer synonymous with aviation in Connecticut. Inextricably linked to many of the world's most famous aircraft, engine, propeller and manufacturers, is contacted by the likes of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Pratt and Whitney, Vought Chance, Avco Lycoming, Hamilton Standard, United Technologies and the collective. Many of his valuable contributions can be viewed by visiting the sights on their aircraft.
National Helicopter Museum
Sandwiched between Avco Lycoming in Stratford and one end of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, on the other, and situated abandoned in the east, 48 feet long Metro North Railway Station, National Museum of traces of helicopter technology development and historic of rotary-wing aircraft.
Brainchild of Dr. Raymond E. Jankovich, a local pediatrician, and Robert McCloud, founder of newspaper The Stratford Bard, which was designed in 1978 because of its associated local helicopter and the potential benefits to the city. His reality was cemented with a grant from Avco Lycoming.
Billing itself as the only museum dedicated to such rotary-wing aircraft and opening in 1983, is entirely run by volunteers, most of whom are former employees Sikorsky, and offers a photo essay in chronological order, displays, models and some sections of fuselage that collectively trace helicopter design of nature, which had traditionally tried to emulate aerial flight, until the 21st century.
The helicopter itself traces its origins to the tops Chinese recorded flying in the fourth century BC. Composed of round, short sticks, they were placed with the "helicopter blade, or airfoil, resembling, feathers. be run on any front and back rubbed or pulled by a rope, he turned and raised his feathers angular lift, causing them to climb vertically.
Leonardo da Vinci, later made several sketches of beating paragliding, parachute, and the bolts of air capable of raising human beings, the screws are made of linen, in order to mount the air, on which he theorized, "when the force generates motion faster than the gentle air flight, air is compressed in the manner of feathers compressed and crushed by the weight of a bed. And what caused the air, finding strength in that rebounds in the manner of a ball slammed into a wall. "
The museum itself "In the Beginning" exhibition illustrates these initial concepts. rotorcraft first prehistoric man was the boomerang, which led to the top of China and the Helix Da Vinci, the first record "helicopter" design.
Your Early Dreams "drawings from 1843, represent either round, resembling fan and rotors, side by side, while those generated by Sir George Cayley were flat, forming a wing in flight.
The Early Prophets "Research indicates that the first successful ascent, fueled reached a height of 40 feet during a flight of 20 seconds.
A helicopter rotor 60, designed by Gustave Whitehead in 1911, appears in "Before Sikorsky" collection, while the "International Achievements" panel portrays the developmental period between 1930 and 1935.
Professor EH Henrich, as evidenced from the German "Ascension" panel, formed a new company to pursue his dream of designing a rotary-wing aircraft, after serving as Chief Focke Wulfe Design, and he made a flight of 28 seconds on June 26, 1936.
A mural entitled "Birth of First Flight", obtained from the Sikorsky factory has a short timeline for their projects beginning with the VS-300-V1, 1942.
Engine development can be gleaned from "The Revolution of the gas turbine. "The steam engine, for example, had much structural weight to support the technology then known vertical lift, but the engine more light gasoline, which appears just after the turn of the century, was used ubiquitously. The relatively light but powerful rotary engine had been used during the 1920 for trial by helicopter, the entire block cylinder rotating around a stationary crankshaft and thus producing significant air flow created cylinder cooling.
The "State of the Art Crafts" presents significant lifting helicopter manufacturers, including Sikorsky, Bell, Hughes, Kaman, Piasecki, Boeing-Vertol, and Robinson, while half a dozen display cases present models of rotorcraft.
Despite the small size of the museum and limiting artifact size door, however, shows several components of the real helicopter. The main rotor of an S-58, for example, weighs 110 pounds and measuring 28 meters its center of rotation is visible near a Sikorsky S-76 blade assembly of the tail rotor. Avco Lycoming Engines include a T800-APW-800 and a turbine T55-L-714, which powered designs such as the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the model 234, the MH-47E Chinook, and the model 360. Also features a Sikorsky RAH-66 "shadow" Commanche fly-by-wire gig test, and the cockpit section of a Sikorsky S-76 on the usefulness of the oil / offshore setting, the project has a fuselage length 43.4 meters, a diameter of 44 meters in rotor, and can reach speeds of 155 to the front of the node.
The museum provides a small but special place through which the technology of rotorcraft and history, often discounted in studies of aviation, but here singularly responsible for the existence of Stratford, can be explored.
New England Air Museum
Located next to Windsor Locks Bradley International Airport, the New England Air Museum is the largest aviation in the Northeast, featuring more than 80 aircraft and often focusing on achievements in aeronautics Connecticut about 75,000 square meters of indoor exhibition area, which is subdivided into three hangars. His collection includes 125 complete airframe and engine 200.
Military Exhibition Hangar, for example – with a focus on pure jet fighters – characteristics the aircraft, such as 105B Thunderchief Republic, the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, North American F-86F Sabre, the F-14B Tomcat Grumman, Fairchild / Republic Thunderbolt II A-10A, and the American F-100A Super Sabre.
His first design, a Sikorsky S-16 biplane, is from 1915. With a length of 19.33 meters, wingspan 26.25 meters, the fighter, with a 897-pound empty weight, resting on a gear wheel quad-main and a tail wheel to facilitate soft field operations, and was the first with propeller arc-synchronized machine guns. Reached maximum 74 mph-speeds.
combatants of World War II-era Grumman F6F include-5 Hellcat and even Connecticut Vought Corsair F4U-4, the latter proudly sporting his classic inverted gull wings, and apparently large prop. example of the museum takes its name from one of the pilots more Famous Navy who fought in the Pacific Theatre, "Pappy Boyington".
World War II bombers are represented by the American B-25H Mitchell high wing, twin engine, medium-range aircraft, which had served on all fronts with the Air Force, Navy, and several countries, including Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union in the roles of low and medium level bomber patrol anti-submarine and transport, and have flown the famous Doolittle Raid. Example The New England Air Museum is the last surviving variant B-25H and the most heavily used by armed allies, with a 0.75 mm nose cannon, eight ahead 0.50 caliber machine guns, six .50-caliber back, waist and tail turret-mounted machine guns.
Several rotary-wing aircraft, including the Iroquois Bell UH-1B, the Kaman K-225, and Kaman HH-43H, complete the collection.
Harvey H. Lippincott Civil Aviation Hangar shines with some rare gems.
Silas H. Brooks balloon basket, for example, is both the basket and oldest surviving part of a craft lighter than air in the world. Brooks, Plymouth, Connecticut, had built and flew his hot air balloon over Hartford and New Haven, housed in a five feet long, wicker basket, made of 200 pounds in about 1870. Today it can be seen in a glass case at the entrance to the hangar.
Another pioneering work, a replica of a 1912 Curtiss Model D Pusher biplane built by Howard Bunce, is the oldest surviving museum, heavier than air craft and land that had been born in Connecticut.
The result of his repeated visits Model D, which first appeared on paper as his own sketches before being sublimated to individual, and then assembled parts, powered by a non-standard motor four-cylinder, air-cooled built by Nels J. Nelson New Britain, Connecticut. Whereas it was only a few feet off the ground and then hit in the Berlin Fair ground because of insufficient power, lent itself to a second replica in the form of cannibalized parts, and this example, discovered in a barn in 1962, had been reassembled to view the museum with a 30 hp Kemp I-4 engine.
Other pioneering projects include a Bleriot XI monoplane, 1909 and 1918 a special Nixon.
Another part of a craft lighter than air in view is a control car Goodyear ZNP-K from a 1942 K-28 non-rigid airship, and biplanes are represented by a 1930 Gee Bee Model A, 1930 DW Laird LC-300 solution, and a Viking 1933 "Kitty Hawk" Model B-8.
Two planes of importance historic, early piston are also visible.
The first, the Lockheed Electra 10A is a twin-engine, low wing, ten passengers, design fuselage tail wheel which was the first all-metal manufacturer and provided the basis for the higher L-14 and L-18 Lodestar. example of the museum, with the serial number 1052, initially was delivered to the U.S. Navy in 1936 for use as personal transportation.
The second, also a twin-engine plane, tail-to-wheels is the Douglas DC-3, the most massively produced, the role of various military, civil and design that the first time, allows operators to generate a profit just on the transportation of passengers and thus revolutionized the airline industry. Dubbed "one of the four most important weapons of World War II" by General Eisenhower, still ply the skies over three quarters of a century after it first took to them.
The Museum of the DC-3, with more than 53,400 hours in the air in his journal, served in various capacities, initially in a military role as a C-47 transport and then a trade with Eastern Airlines, Purdue University, and a number of smaller carriers.
Central and showpiece Civil Aviation Hangar, however, is both structures larger than the sole surviving example and Connecticut designed and built Sikorsky Excambrian VS-44A. One of three completed in 1942 for the Export American Airlines' nonstop transatlantic routes, the high wing, quad-engined, long range, flying plane Boat hull, with a length of 79.25 meters, wingspan of 124 feet and 57,500 pounds of gross weight, was acquired for war operations, carrying passengers loads and priority within the Army and Navy contracts before serving with various charter companies. Extensive damage resulted in their withdrawal from service in 1968.
Collation of the Gulf of Mexico to Bridgeport, underwent extensive restoration by the staff that Sikorsky had been instrumental in its construction original.
Today, aircraft, wrapped in its original livery American Export Airlines, bristles with a first launch factory look.
Another, and quite unique, central, in this case, 58 Bomb Wing Memorial Hangar is the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the hangar itself named after the ward who had been instrumental World War II the Japanese defeat. The silver, sleek, £ 135,000, quad-engine bomber of 3250 km extending 99 feet in length and sports a wingspan 141.25 meters, and carries 11 crew members. Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, closed the curtain on the Pacific Theatre.
Poised off, as if passengers Standby is a Sud-Aviation Caravelle SE.210, the world's first short-range jet, With the pure nose section originally designed for the de Havilland Comet.; modestly-swept, wings down, passenger windows triangular, two aft mounted, Rolls Royce Avon, and a cross-de-Loraine tail, the sleek aircraft was the basis of most subsequent twin-jet configurations, such as the British Aircraft Corporation BAC-111, McDonnell-Douglas DC-9, and Fokker F.28 Fellowship. Two hundred and eighty Caravelles all versions had been built.
Operated by United Airlines, Sterling Airways of Denmark, and small package carrier Airborne Express, it found its way to the museum after the carrier last gave it.
Besides the aircraft, the New England Air Museum presents various thematic exhibitions, some of which Connecticut showcase contributions in aviation, including "History of Sikorsky Aircraft," "Lafayette Squadron," Flying AVG Tigers "," Tuskegree aviators "and" History of Pratt and Whitney. "There is also an Aviation Pioneer Theatre.
Well open-day, flight simulators, computer audio tours, speakers, special events, workshops, educational programs, a research library, aviation and 'N' Wings round things considerable store of their offers.
Sikorsky Memorial Airport
Tracing its origin to lawns Avon Lane Field, who had been sympathetic to the trial early aircraft and had received an indication from the country of first air in 1911, Sikorsky Memorial Airport, a publicly owned facility in Stratford, later became known as "Field Mollison" after 1933 forced landing there by Captain Jim Mollison during his transatlantic attempt.
Despite its location, which had been redesignated "Bridgeport Municipal Airport" four years later, when the city of Bridgeport itself had bought.
Because of the prevalence of Connecticut manufacturers of aircraft and engines, have been considered part of the "arsenal of democracy" during World War II, and was subsequently renamed "Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport" in 1972 in honor the man who had transformed the city to the birthplace of the helicopter, whose factory had been largely responsible for its expansion.
Today, its facilities include a passenger terminal with airline check-in counters, three gates, a restaurant, and car rentals, a general aviation terminal, hangars individuals, and two lanes – four-foot Runway 0.677 6 / 24 and 4,761 meters of runway 11/29. There is also a 40 – by 40-foot helipad.
interruption Progressive's service for three regional airlines, including Continental Connection, in 1994, Delta Connection, in 1997, and U.S. Airways Express, in 1999, had occurred because the existing runway lengths prohibited largest, most profitable aircraft operations, although planned, commercial, service rotary wing had been restored after an interval of seven years by the U.S. helicopter with its helicopter operations to return to the heliport of the roots of New York Downtown. Wiggins Airways offers FedEx feeder load and small package services for the field.
During the 12 months ended February 28, 2007, Sikorsky Memorial Airport recorded 77,617 aircraft operations and had 241-based aircraft, of which 72 percent were single-engine, 11 percent were multi-engine, 15 percent were of the turbine, and two percent were rotary wing.
Conclusion
Connecticut fixed wing aircraft and rich, engine, propeller and contributions aviation, whose seeds were planted by some of the most famous names are worth a visit paid tribute to its many attractions.
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