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When Pierre Blanchard from Philadelphia was mounted in a hot air balloon January 9, 1793 and traveled to 15 miles across the Delaware River to Deptford, New Jersey, he had first Western Hemisphere flight air, triggering a long series of achievements of aviation in the Garden State.

Charles Durant, of Jersey City, for example, had the later became the first American balloonist to fly in 1830 and Dr. Solomon Andrews, building the first airship three years later went up to Perth Amboy and flew to Long Island, then an incredible achievement by air.

The brothers Boland, of Rahway, built the first fixed-wing aircraft in 1909 and became the first to fly in South America. Three years later, in 1912, Oliver Simmons brought the first official bag of mail across Raritan Bay, the South Amboy in Perth Amboy, in a Wright Flyer. The first five World War Flying Aces had hailed from New Jersey, winning the title in 1918. The world's first airship, the USS Shenandoah, was built at Lakehurst in 1921. The Barling Bomber, built at Teterboro Airport in 1922 by brothers Wittlemann had was then the largest aircraft ever designed.

Air-cooled Whirlwind engine built at Princeton, has fueled many aircraft in the early 1920. Metropolitan New York by plane pole, created in 1925, was located in South Hadley Field Planfield. Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett was the first to navigate a three-engine Fokker built Teterboro, powered by motors Tourbillon, the North Pole in 1926. However, the feat was one of many made ​​possible by the engine: in 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis, Clarence Chamberlin flew to Germany two weeks later, and Richard Byrd and a crew of three flew for France, all powered by the aircraft in vortex.

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

The 1930 continued to show achievements of aviation New Jersey. Fokker, for example, had developed the world's largest aircraft passenger, F.32 at Teterboro Airport in 1930, all of Amelia Earhart had prepared for his solo transatlantic flight here, and during the first aviation school had been established in Teaneck. Glen Rock Chester Decker became the National Soaring Champion in both 1936 and 1939. Lakehurst Naval Air Station was the mooring point for the Graf Zeppelin Hindenburg.

Between 1942 and 1945, the Aircraft Division of General Motors built 13,500 fighters at the Grumman plant and Tilden Trenton for the war effort, while the Curtiss-Wright Corporation produces 281,164 engines and 146,468 electric propellers in six locations in northern New Jersey. Maj. Thomas McGuire, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, has become the second leading country Flying Ace, having shot down 38 enemy planes, while Château Frderick Mountain Lakes and the first officer Kenneth Walsh Jersey City, with McGuire, received Congressional Medals of Honor for their exploits.

The first rocket engine developed by General Motors Response Danville in 1947, had fueled the Bell X-1, the first design to break the sound barrier, while their subsequent rocket engine was not powered the North American X-15, the first aircraft to fly in space.

First hovercraft in the world was designed by Charles Fletcher of Sussex in 1953.

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

New Jersey is rich civil and military aviation heritage can be explored on several strategically located airports and museums.

Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum in New Jersey, for example, founded in 1972 and located on the east side of Teterboro Airport, is dedicated to the preservation Garden State distinguished two centuries aviation and space heritage. Ease the first such state created for that purpose, he devoted men and women whose achievements brought aviation world famous in New Jersey.

In addition to Hall of Fame itself, its small area display in several important characteristics of the engines, including a two-cylinder, 28 hp, 1400 Towers, A model horizontally opposed Laurent in 1916, which was the forerunner of the storm Wright J44 turbojet model of the School Aeronautics Teterboro, a liquid propellant engine XLR99, who had first fueled the X15 in 1960, a Curtiss Wright CW-25-XLR-1 engine assembly a Wright Cyclone R-1820, a tornado Wright R-2160, which was developed in 2350 bph 4150 rpm and an air cooled Wright Aeronautical J-5 Whirlwind.

Several rotary wing aircraft are also represented, like a helicopter Super Scorpio, who won the 1977 Experimental Aircraft Association Rotorcraft ground Championship, one. H-13 (Bell 47), and an Apache

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

A some major exhibitions are held outdoors. AM * A * S * H ​​unit, for example, has a hospital tent, an operating room, a mess tent, an ambulance, a truck, and a Bell helicopter, and serves as a living memorial to veterans of the Korean War. Two rare, commercial aircraft, also located on the outside, Martin 202A include a registered N93204, which was made on July 8, 1950, and the nose of a Convair 880 N803TW recorded. The plane of ATV engine, the Convair 880 as the third construction, had been delivered to Trans World Airlines in 1961.

Teterboro Airport, the location of the museum, is also significant. Owned and operated by the Authority Port of New York and New Jesey, installation, covering 827 acres, had its origin in 1917 when Walter C. Teter acquired the property for her. The old airport operating in northern New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, it was the site of manufacture of U.S. aircraft aviation War I and later served as the basis for Anthony Fokker. He answered his first, during the flying site in 1919.

After been operated by the Army and Air Force during the war, it was purchased by the Port Authority of New York and current New Jersey, April 1, 1949. Serve as an alternate airport general aviation under the Federal Aviation Regulation 139, the airport, with some 200,000 aircraft movements annually, has two tracks-0.015 6-foot runway and 7,000 feet of runway 6-24 1-19, 4.2 miles of roads, tower control of the FAA, and 19 sheds with a collective 412,000 square feet in area. He is a founding member of the Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum in New Jersey.

The Air Victory Museum, located in Lumberton at South Jersey Regional Airport, is another important aviation facility and focuses on the military aircraft and their powerplants. "An educational organization dedicated to inspiring young people today to through technology and achievements of aviation, "according to its mission statement, the museum, which is partially certified and approved by 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 of aircraft includes a McDonnell-Douglas A-4D Skyhawk attack and aircraft ground support in Blue Angels livery, a Phantom F-4A, a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, a North American F-86-D / L Sabre Jet, a Lockheed Star P-80A Shooting, Ling Temco Vought an A-7 Corsair and Grumman F-14 Tomcat. The engine exhibits are equally important and include a world War II German Help Rocket takeoff engine, a Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet axial eight-step, which had powered the Messerschmitt Me-262, a Curtiss-Wright J-65, a Pratt Whitney 2000 hp and two-row 18-cylinder, air-cooled R-2800 radial, a Pratt and Whitney TF-30, its first afterburner-equipped engine, and a General Electric J-79. Room mistress of the Motor Show, however, is a work of Pratt and Whitney R-4360. The largest ever designed pistons, it has four lines, seven banks, and 28 cylinders, and was the only power capable of developing its 3670 kilos of weight in the equivalent power. It was used by several bombers, including the Goliath, ten-engine B-36 Peacemaker.

The Wright brothers contributions are represented by a reproduction size of the Wright Flyer, a replica of the 1903 Flyer engine showing a clear transfer of technology of the bicycle with its chain and sprockets, representation Kitty Hawk with the Wright Flyer with just withdrew from the drag strip on the sand, and a real wind tunnel built under their supervision.

Space is represented by an Orbital Space Plane simulator cab docking Mock-Up, an observation ITOS-D television improved Infrared Satellite System built by RCA in Hightstown, and the orbit '81 Experience ant colonies prepared by the students of Camden High School and launched on the Space Shuttle.

Research can be done by Raymond Watson Harold Sleeper Stephen Synder Memorial Library.

The South Jersey Airport regional location of the Air Victory Museum is an area nontowered with one asphalt runway 3911 feet (08-26) and some 113 aircraft owned by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

Southern New Jersey has a rich history of the Army and Navy air bases.

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

Drive to the airport, which is now a center for general aviation is like entering a time of World War II Portal: slag block several buildings and barracks, characteristic of the war, strangely quiet and free, as if the region had once provided the land for large performances, but his players had long since disappeared. The tracks still regularly field takeoffs and landings, but mostly single-engine Cessna and Pipers. Yet the place was an integral part of the War world and remains historically significant.

He was one of 900 airports defense controlled the U.S. government be strategically located around the country to be immediately converted from civilian to military applications and train against power- in case of war. Unlike others, however, Millville Army Air Field was the first and has been dedicated as the "U.S. airport Defense First "by local, state and federal officials when it was opened August 2, 1941 in the midst of a ceremony Box 10000.

The current 923-acre Municipal Airport Millville, New Jersey's second largest general aviation, sports a landing system (ILS) and FAA Flight Service Station (FSS), the City of Millville leasing administration on the Delaware River and Bay the Authority.

Today, the echoes of his role from the airport of World War II. 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 War-era structures, and preservation of the base area, two sheds, buildings, and 18, was ensured by their inclusion in New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places.

The Henry H. Wyble Library for Historical Research and Education Center, one of them is located in a former warehouse of the base and Sports an extensive collection of books related to war, videos, historical documents, and models of aircraft, and serves as a large-screen theater. The installation, which opened in 2007, has two eight-by-ten feet, "false", partially open door painted murals by local artists on its facade.

Construction Link Trainer, born in 1942 and requiring two years of restoration, houses one of only five trainers link yet operational. Designed by Edwin Albert Link to the reinforcing member of his family business in Binghamton, New York, to provide training tool for World War II pilots During poor visibility and night conditions, the camera, borrowing the organ bellows to simulate climbs, descents and banks 6271 had represented sales to the army and the navy in 1045 and is currently available for visitor use for a small fee.

A collection vintage aircraft, the private property of Thomas Duffy and stored in one of two historic hangars, including the P-47 Thunderbolt "No Guts, No Glory ", one of the ten were still airworthy and the same type for which the airbase was established.

Room Day Ready original pilot, built in 1943, now houses the crew lounge-Air Ops Aviation Big Sky.

Nucleus of the historical field, however, is the Museum of Millville Army Air Field housed in the original World War II Army Air Force Gunnery School Administration Building used between 1943 and 1945 and restored in 1988. The museum, founded by Michael T. Stowe to preserve American history of military aviation, most of the time displays artifacts, equipment, photographs, and engines contributed by veterans of the air base.

A Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp radial engine double row, which had fed the P-47 based here with several models army and navy others accents of pure power of this powerful engine and is a strong point of the poster. A ceiling light had measured the height of clouds, while a directional gyro served as a training aid pilot navigation.

Metal, Mardson interlocking mat, designed by the British, had facilitated the takeoff and landing at poorly equipped locations. According to George Canning, a current Millville Army Air Field Museum affiliate who had enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December 1941 and had served in the Pacific South, "is the best invention of the war. Put together and you have a track yet!"

The seaplane base in Philadelphia Museum Founded in 1915 by Robert Mills and the family moved to current location in 2000, shows Aeromarine wings, struts and pontoons.

A viewfinder Nordon, mahogany nose of a Curtiss flying boat, a collection of model aircraft in memory of Robert Wilinski, photographs, a homogeneous collection, and an army barracks typical set up full-house of the poster, and two aircraft are featured on the outside. The first one A-4F Skyhawk, was assigned to Attack Squadron 192 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Orskary in 1968 during its fight against the Vietnam war tour while the second is a Short Brothers SD3-30 named "the Kwajalein Atoll."

In addition to the exhibitions, the Museum of World War II field Pilots reunion, movies, school curricula, aircraft fly-ins and air shows, events and veterans.

Millville Army Air Field, the gate time for World War II and after the installation of fire significant pilot training on the East Coast with a fleet P-47 Thunderbolt, is an experience that transcends the living history of the past and tells his story to the visitor to the present.

The second historical basis in southern New Jersey, Naval Air Station Wildwood is located at the airport in Cape May. Built in 1942, he facilitated dive-bombing training with a fleet of Douglas SBD Dauntless, SB2C Helldiver Curitss, Grumman TBM Avenger, and Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, when its pilots, in groups of air had transferred to their respective aircraft carrier in the Pacific.

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

Formed by the wood bolted Pratt farms subdivided into ten-foot panels in the roof, the cavernous structure was 2,558,000 cubic feet than 290 feet long, 219 feet wide and 51 feet high, and was supplemented with cross-braced vertical supports at its north and south elevations and a central support, which had previously provided to the division between the two internal bays. Its east and west elevations have been created by 12 gates telescopic full height. Apart from the housing office when aircraft fleet in the air station, he also presented workshops and installations maintenance.

The structure later abandoned, after having fallen into disrepair rotten wood, cracked windows, was resurrected by Dr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Salvatore in 1997, which had formed the non-profit Naval Air Station Wildwood Foundation to save and preserve as a memorial for the 42 drivers who lost their lives during their training here from 1943 to 1945 and was subsequently listed on the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places the level of national significance. The hangar now houses the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, which includes about 30 aircraft, engines, interactive displays provided by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, movies, library and gift shop.

The hangar, commissioned by the Navy in April 1943 and one of the few remaining World War II all-wood structures, is breathtaking in size and scope and represents the conversion of resources created by nature for human use.

Propeller planes are represented by the Vultee BT-13 trainer, EO-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 included in the National Register of Historic Places, while pure jet fighters including the McDonnell-Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, the star of the Lockheed T-33 Shooting, the Grumman F-14B Tomcat and MiG-15. Rotorcraft include the UH-1 "Huey", the AH-1F Cobra, Hughes OH-6A "Cayuse" The Bell OH-13C "Sioux", and the Sikorsky HH-52 "Seaguard" then the wing engines both fixed and rotary include an Allison J-33, Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, a Wright Cyclone R-1820, a Pratt and Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major, a T53, and even 98,000 pounds thrust Pratt and Whitney PW4098, which powers the Boeing 777 mammoth.

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

The 1,000-acre Cape May Airport, the location of the museum, is itself a historical value, having evolved from the marine station air. Sporting two runs 4998 meters (1-19 and 10-28), six lanes, and three parking ramps, installation of general aviation fields 39,000 annual movements mainly composed of business, leisure and charter aircraft, and stands as a testament to where the fields Once the corn has subsequently grown pilots whose skills were instrumental dive in the Pacific theater and ultimate victory the Second World War.

Pierre Blanchard balloon ascent in 1793 sparked a long series of achievements in aviation New Jersey, a path that can be traced today by visiting its airports and major museums in the Teterboro Airport 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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