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Monday, February 20th, 2006 at 11:47 pm

Attractions aviation in New Jersey

When Pierre Blanchard had risen from Philadelphia in a hot air balloon, on January 9, 1793 and made the trip of 15 miles across the Delaware River to Depford, New Jersey, who had made the flight in the Western Hemisphere air in the first place, causing a long list of achievements of aviation in the Garden State.

Charles Durant, of Jersey City, for example, subsequently become the first American airman flight In 1830 and Dr. Solomon Andrews, the construction of the airship first three years later, rose above Perth Amboy and flew to Long Island, then a feat never before seen in the air.

The brothers Boland, Rahway, built the first airplane in 1909 and became the first to fly in South America. Three years later, in 1912, Oliver Simmons led the first official sack of mail across Raritan Bay from South Amboy to Perth Amboy, in a Wright Flyer. The first five World War I flying aces had hailed from New Jersey, winning the title in 1918. The first airship, the USS Shenandoah, Lakehurst was built in 1921. The Barling Bomber was built in Teterboro airport in 1922 by brothers Wittlemann, then was the largest aircraft ever conceived.

The air-cooled Whirlwind engine built in Princeton, powered aircraft had many of the principles of the 1920 center airmail. Metropolitan New York, created in 1925, had been located at Hadley Field in South Planfield. Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett had been the first to sail Teterboro built a Fokker tri-motor, powered by Whirlwind on the North Pole in 1926. However, the feat had been one of many possible by the engine: In 1927, Charles Lindbergh had flown across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis, Clarence Chamberlin had tickets to Germany two weeks afternoon, and Richard Byrd and a crew of three had traveled to France, all powered aircraft in the whirlwind.

Newark Metropolitan Airport, the world airfield busiest, had opened in 1928 and became the site of America's first air traffic controller, William "Whitney" Conrad.

The 1930s continued to see the achievements of aviation in New Jersey. Fokker, for example, had devised largest passenger aircraft the world, F.32, Teterboro Airport, in 1930, while Amelia Earhart had prepared for his solo transatlantic flight here, and the first year of aviation high school was established in Teaneck Chester. Glen Rock, Decker became the National Champion up in the two years 1936 and 1939. Lakehurst Naval Air Station had been the point of attachment to the Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin.

Between 1942 and 1945, General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division to build 13,500 Grumman fighter planes and plants in Tilden Trenton for the war effort, while Curtiss-Wright Corporation produces 146,468 engines and 281,164 electric propellers six locations in northern New Jersey. Major Thomas McGuire of Ridgewood, New Jersey, became the second leading country flying ace after shot down 38 enemy aircraft, while Castle Frderick mountain lakes and First Lieutenant Kenneth Walsh, of Jersey City, along with McGuire, had received from Congress Medals of Honor for his exploits.

The first rocket engine, developed by jets of Danville, in 1947, had prompted the Bell X-1, the first designed to break the sound barrier, while his subsequent rocket engine had powered the X-15 in North America, the first aircraft to fly in space.

The world's first hovercraft was designed by Charles Fletcher of Sussex in 1953.

Beyond the atmosphere, Walter M. Schirra of Oradell is became the only astronaut to fly in the nave of the three in 1968 - Mercury, Gemini and Apollo - while in Montclair Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first astronaut to land a vehicle on the moon, a year later.

New Jersey's rich heritage of military and civil aviation can be explored in several strategically located airports and museums.

The Hall of Fame and the Aviation Museum of New Jersey, for example, founded in 1972 and located in the east side of Teterboro Airport, is dedicated to the preservation of the Garden State distinguished two century of aviation and space heritage. The first installation of such a state created for that purpose, is devoted to the men and women whose achievements brought worldwide recognition aircraft to New Jersey.

Apart from the Hall of Fame itself, its small screen area covered with several important functions engines, including a two-cylinder, 28 horsepower and 1400-rpm, horizontally Lawrence opposed Model A, 1916, which was the forerunner of the Wright Whirlwind, a model j44 turbojet engine of the School of Aeronautics Teterboro, liquid engine XLR99 of rockets that had driven the first X15 in 1960, the XLR-25 Curtiss-Wright CW-1 motor assembly, a Wright Cyclone R-1820, a tornado Wright R-2160, which had developed 2350 b / h at 4150 rpm and an air-cooled Wright Whirlwind J-5 Aviation.

Several helicopters are also represented, as that of a helicopter Super Scorpion, who had won the 1977 Earth Rotorcraft Experimental Aircraft Association Championship, an H-13 (Bell 47), and Apache.

A Curtiss-Wright Dehmel Flight Simulator has been used by Eastern Airlines.

Some major exposures are kept out. AM * A * S * H unit, for example, has a hospital, an operating room, a dining room, an ambulance, a truck and a Bell helicopter, and serves as a living monument to veterans of the Korean War. Two rare, commercial aircraft, is also out, including a 202A Martin registered N93204, which was made on July 8, 1950, and the nose section of a Convair 880 registered N803TW. The four-engined plane, the third as Convair 880 built, was delivered to TWA in 1961.

Airport Teterboro, the location of the museum, is equally important. Owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jesey, installation, covering 827 hectares, had originated in 1917 when Walter C. Teter had acquired the property for this. The oldest operating airport in northern New Jersey and New York metropolitan area which had been the site of the manufacture of aviation planes in North America during the First World War and later served as the basis for Anthony Fokker. It had submitted its first flight on the current site in 1919.

After being operated by the Army and Air Force during the Second World War had been acquired by the current Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on 1 April 1949. Serving as a general aviation reliever airport in the Federal Regulations Aviation 139, the airport, with approximately 200,000 annual aircraft movements, has two runways-6 ,015-foot runway 6-24 and 7000 meters of the runway 1-19; 4.2 miles of taxiways, a control tower, FAA, and 19 hangars of a group with 412,000 square feet. Is a founding member of the Hall of Fame and Museum Aviation New Jersey.

The Museum of Victoria Air, located in Lumberton Regional Airport in South Jersey, is another important center of military aviation and focuses in aircraft and power plants. "an educational organization dedicated to inspiring today's youth through the technology and achievements in aviation," according to its mission statement, the museum, which is partially certified and approved by the U.S. Air Force and fully approved by the U.S. Navy and the National Museum of Naval Aviation, is to "educate, celebrate the progress of aviation, and honor those who made them."

His collection covers a McDonnell-Douglas A-4D Skyhawk attack aircraft and ground support in Blue Angels livery, an F-4A Phantom, a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, an American F-86-D / L Saber Jet, a Lockheed P-80A Shooting Star, a Ling Temco Vought A-7 Corsair and an F-14 Tomcat. The exposure of the engine are also significant and include a German War Rocket World Help out the engine, a Junkers Jumo 004 axial turbojet eight stages, which had fueled the Messerschmitt Me-262, a Curtiss-Wright J-65, a 2,000 hp Pratt & Whitney power double row, 18-cylinder, air cooled R-2800 radial, a Pratt & Whitney TF-30, its first engine equipped afterburner and a General Electric J-79. Centerpiece of engine parts, however, is a work of Pratt and Whitney R-4360. The piston largest ever designed, which has four rows, seven banks, and 28 cylinders, and was the only engine capable of developing its weight of 3670 pounds of equivalent power. It had been used by terrorists several, including the Goliath, ten engines, B-36 Peacemaker.

The contributions of the Wright Brothers are represented by a full-size reproduction of the Wright 1903 Flyer 1 Flyer replica of the engine is clearly showing the transfer of technology from the bike chains and sprockets, a representation of Kitty Hawk, with the Wright Flyer has just split with his track acceleration on the sand, and a real wind tunnel built under his supervision.

Space is represented orbital plane for a booth space docking Mock-Up simulator-TV ITOS D. Improved infrared observation satellite system built by RCA in Hightstown, and Ant Colony Orbit Experiment '81 prepared by students of Camden High School and launched the space shuttle.

Research can be done in the Raymond Harold Watson Sleeper Stephen Snyder Memorial Library.

The South Jersey Regional Airport, the location of the Museum of Victoria's air is a field with nontowered a single asphalt runway 3,911-foot (08-26) and about 113 aircraft based at the Department of Transportation property in New Jersey.

Southern New Jersey is rich in historic Army and Navy air bases.

The Millville Army Air Field Museum, the first of which is located in Millville Municipal Airport and had been used for Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt pilot training during World War II.

Drive into the airport, now a center general aviation, is like entering a portal of World War II time: ashes of several blocks of buildings and barracks, characteristic of the war, are strangely quiet and empty, as if the area had once been the scene of some important results, but his players had long gone. The tracks are to be supported routine field takeoffs and landings, but mostly single-engine Cessna and Piper. However, in the place had been an integral part of the Second World War and therefore continues being historically significant.

He had been one of the 900 airports in the defense mandated by the U.S. government to be placed strategically throughout the country to be immediately convertible civilians for military use and to train opposing forces in the event of war. Unlike others, however, Millville Army Air Field had been the first and thus was dedicated as "airport of first line of defense of the United States' local, state and federal when was inaugurated on 2 August 1941 in the midst of a ceremony than 10,000 strong.

The current 923-acre Millville Municipal Airport, the second largest in New Jersey general aviation field, sporting a instrument landing system (ILS) and a flight service station by the FAA (FSS), the City of Millville lease its financial management to the Delaware River and Bay Authority.

Today, the echoes of its role as airport WWII. Of the 100 buildings occupying the site during the four years between 1941 and 1945, 20 remain and form the world's largest collection of original structures of the war era, and preservation of the main area, two sheds, and 18 buildings, has been ensured by their inclusion in New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places.

The Henry H. Wyble Historical Research Library and Education Center, one of them is in one of the original store base and sport extensive war-related book collection, videos, historical documents and models of aircraft, and serves as a large-screen theater. The center, which opened its doors in 2007, includes two eight-foot-ten, "imitation" partially open the door murals painted by local artists on its facade.

The Link Trainer construction from 1942 and that requires two years of restoration, houses one of five coaches who still have operational links. Designed by Edwin Albert Link organ of his family construction business in Binghamton, New York, to conduct training tool for pilots of World War II, during the poor visibility and night conditions, the device, the indebtedness of the organ bellows to simulate inclines, declines, and banks had taken into account sales from 6271 to the Army and 1,045 to the Navy and is currently available for use by visitors for a small fee.

A collection of vintage aircraft, privately owned by Thomas Duffy and stored in one of two historic hangars, including the P-47 Thunderbolt "No Guts, No Glory", one of the ten still airworthiness and aircraft type for which the airbase had been created.

The original Day Pilot Ready Room, built in 1943, now houses Ops-Hall crew from Big Sky Aviation.

Nucleus of historical material, however, is the Millville Army Air Field Museum located in the original world Air Force Army War II artillery School of Management building used between 1943 and 1945 and renovated in 1988. The museum, founded by Michael T. Stowe to preserve the history of U.S. military aircraft, most displaying artifacts, equipment, photographs, and the engines supplied by veterans airbase.

A Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp two-row radial engine that had powered the P-47 based here along with another army and various designs Navy, the emphasis of the sheer force of this powerful engine and is a highlight of the exhibition. A ceiling light had been measured cloud height, while a directional gyro had served as a navigational aid pilot training.

The metal locking Mardson Mat, designed by the British, has facilitated the takeoff and landing operations in places ill-equipped. According to George Canning, a current Millville Army Air Field Museum members who had enlisted in the Air Corps Army in December 1941 and had served in the South Pacific, "which is the best invention of the entire war. reassemble the pieces and immediately have a clue!"

The seaplane base of Philadelphia Museum, founded in 1915 by the Mills family, Robert and moved to present site in 2000, shows Aeromarine wings, struts, and pontoons.

A bomber Nordon, mahogany, the nose of a Curtiss seaplane, a collection of model aircraft in memory of Robert Wilinski, photographs, a collection of uniforms, and a typical Army barracks set up complete the internal screen, while two planes appear outside. The first, an A-4F Skyhawk, was assigned to Attack Squadron 192 to board the aircraft carrier USS Orskary in 1968 during his visit Viet Nam war fighting, while the second is a Short Brothers SD3-30 called "Atoll Kwajalein. "

Besides exhibitions, the fields of World War II pilot Museum meetings, movies, school education, planes fly-ins and outdoor shows, and events for veterans.

Millville Army Air Field, the time to the site of the Second World War and the once an important driver of gunnery training on the east coast with a fleet of P-47 Thunderbolt, is an experience that transcends the living history of the past and tells her story visitors at present.

The historical basis for second in the southern New Jersey, the Naval Air Station Wildwood is located at Cape May Airport. Built in 1942, has provided training dive bombing with a fleet of Douglas SBD Dauntless, SB2C Helldiver Curitss, Grumman TBM Avenger and F4U Corsair Vought Aircraft in the drivers of his time, placed in groups of air, had moved to their respective aircraft carrier in the Pacific.

When victory had closed the doors of the theaters of World War II in 1945, the Navy had interrupted their training in the Naval Air Station Wildwood and in December the following year, had been deactivated, its 109 buildings have been declared surplus. Of these, 79 had been offered by the War Assets Administration, which had acquired property intermittently, for off-site, while several larger structures had been given to Cape May County, which had resumed operation of the station. Hanger Number One, which was designed by architect Albert Kahn and whose construction had begun in October 1942, was one of them.

Formed by wooden pins Pratt trusses subdivided into ten foot panels on the roof, the cavernous, 2,558,000-cubic-foot structure was 290 meters long, 219 feet wide and 51 feet high, and had concluded with the cross-braced vertical supports in the north and south elevations and a central support, which had provided the division between the two internal bays. The ridge of east and west had been created by 12 full-height telescoping doors. Besides once the station air of the air fleet of housing, has also stressed the offices, workrooms, and maintenance facilities.

The structure later dropped, after falling into a state of deterioration of wood rotting and broken windows, had been raised by Dr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Salvatore in 1997, which had formed the nonprofit organization Naval Air Station Wildwood Foundation to save and preserve as a memorial to the 42 pilots who had lost their lives during their training here from 1943 to 1945 and subsequently listed on the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places in the level of national importance. hangar that now houses the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, which has about 30 aircraft, engines, interactive displays provided by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, film, a library and gift shop.

The hangar, commissioned by the Navy in April 1943 and one of the few World War II all wooden structures, is impressive in size and magnitude, and represents the conversion of resources created by nature for use by man.

Propeller planes are represented by the Vultee BT-13 trainer, the EMB-2 "Bird Dog", the Boeing Stearman PT-17 Kaydet, the North American T-28C Trojan, and the Grumman TBM-3E Avenger, one of eight designs contained in the National Register of Historic Places, while pure fighter planes include McDonnell-Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, Grumman F-14B Tomcat, and MiG-15. Rotary-wing aircraft include the UH-1 Huey, the AH-1F Cobra, the Hughes OH-6A "Cayuse", the Bell OH-13C "Sioux" and the Sikorsky HH-52 "Seaguard" while fixed and rotary wing engines include a J-33 Allison, a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, a Wright Cyclone R-1820, a Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major, T53, and up to 98,000 pounds of thrust Pratt & Whitney PW4098, which powers the giant Boeing 777.

Apart from the aircraft and engines themselves, the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum often hosts fly-ins, veterans ceremonies, historical lectures, and field trips.

The 1,000-acre Cape May Airport, the location of the museum, is itself of historical value, which evolved from the naval air station. Sporting two runs of 4,998-foot (1-19 and 10-28), six taxiways, and three parking ramps, installation of general aviation fields 39,000 movements annually mainly composed of pilots as a testament to the location in the fields after the corn crop, later had grown businesses, recreation and the aircraft charter and is diving skills whose attack was instrumental in the Pacific theater and final victory of World War II.

Pierre Blanchard in hot air balloon ascension in 1793 had led to a long list of accomplishments of aviation in New Jersey, a path that may again today by visiting its airports major museums and Teterboro Airport in the north to the Naval Air Station Wildwood in the south.

About the Author

A graduate of Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus with a summa-cum-laude BA Degree in Comparative Languages and Journalism, I have subsequently earned the Continuing Community Education Teaching Certificate from the Nassau Association for Continuing Community Education (NACCE) at Molloy College, the Travel Career Development Certificate from the Institute of Certified Travel Agents (ICTA) at LIU, and the AAS Degree in Aerospace Technology at the State University of New York – College of Technology at Farmingdale. Having amassed almost three decades in the airline industry, I managed the New York-JFK and Washington-Dulles stations at Austrian Airlines, created the North American Station Training Program, served as an Aviation Advisor to Farmingdale State University of New York, and created and taught the Airline Management Certificate Program at the Long Island Educational Opportunity Center. A freelance author, I have written some 70 books of the short story, novel, nonfiction, essay, poetry, article, log, curriculum, training manual, and textbook genre in English, German, and Spanish, having principally focused on aviation and travel, and I have been published in book, magazine, newsletter, and electronic Web site form. I am a writer for Cole Palen’s Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York.

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