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1. Aviation seed Long Island

The seed planted Aviation Hempstead Plains on Long Island in 1909 when Glenn Curtiss had earlier stolen over his Golden Flyer biplane, had sprouted and grew during a decade of up to six it finally connected his own soil with that of its moon.

Its sites of many aerospace, representing the general aviation, commercial, military and space industries, and geographically dispersed between Garden City and Calverton, telling this trip.

2. Cradle of Aviation Museum

Cradle of Aviation Museum, located on Museum Row in Garden City near the Coliseum, Nassau Community College and Hofstra University, said the history of aerospace from Long Island.

Tracing its origin to 1979, when then-County Executive Francis T. Purcell designated funds to restore two aircraft hangars at the former Mitchel Field, he displayed several dozen aircraft, until it closed for renovation in 1995. The 130,000 square foot, $ 40 million opening on the 75th anniversary of Lindbergh's transatlantic flight in 2002, features more than 70 air and spacecraft, 11 of which are unique creations of its kind, associated with or built on Long Island and discovered during a search of 20 years who had extended from the bottom of Lake Michigan at Guadalcanal. They were then restored and preserved by the airline to retire and volunteer defense manufacturer, which collectively contributed 650,000 man-hours for the project. The result was the largest on Long Island, year-round, school, recreational and cultural activities.

Under New York State Governor George E. Pataki, visitors to the museum "can see the short period of years that Long Island for keeping the fragile biplanes of 1911 to build the lunar module that took mankind to the moon in the sixties. Thanks these screens, the base becomes a mirror reflecting our own powerful skills, intelligence and ability to conquer time and space and celebrates innovation and the American pioneering spirit. "

Cradle of Aviation Museum, dominated by its impressive four-storey glass atrium Reckson Center, welcomes visitors with a suspended ceiling Tiger Grumman F-11A fighter supersonic Blue Angels livery and fleet biplane trainer 1929 2 , symbolically representing the soaring rise of the aviation heritage of Long Island.

The main rooms, located in eight galleries in both restored Army Air Corps Hangars 3 and 4, which still bear the words "Mitchel Field. Elev 90 feet "on their facades, and Donald Everett Axinn now designated Air and Space Hall, are accessible by a walkway on the second floor at the entrance of which a third replica hanging from the ceiling of a Sperry Messenger biplane designed in 1922 by the company Sperry Lawrence Farmingdale aircraft crashes.

According to the plate from the bridge, the "Long Island has been at the forefront of American aviation and space adventure for the last hundred years ... It started here on the plains of Hempstead, Long Island.

A descent of a flight led to the first galleries of the museum, "Dream of Wings." Representing the triumph of robbery with lighter than air, it shows how the balloon, kite, glider, airship experiments and transformed the dream of flight into reality and his successors led to heavier than air, display aerostatic lift generation, tetrahedral kite Alexander Graham Bell, a glider, Otto Lilienthal, and Timmons 1906 wing built in Queens, are beating the oldest museum. A 20-HP Glenn Curtiss engine airship, developed two years later, a Mineola Bike Shop, which shows, in the Wright brothers vein, the transfer of technology of the bicycle to the airplane with propellers and wings, complete exposure.

The "Hempstead Plains' gallery, the next meeting, is a 1910 air meet. Amid record spinning.