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The Chinese have been flying kites dating back several hundred years BC, while hot air balloons and even Leonardo de Vinci contributed to the principles of aerial navigation. The 17th and 18th Century saw model aircraft being built and the first published paper on aviation: Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air in 1716. Not stopping here, Sir George Cayler, known as the father of the aeroplane, constructed the first heavier-than-air flying machine. Others continued building fixed winged aircraft in the 1800s culminating with the Wright Brothers recording the first sustained, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air manned flight on December 17, 1903.

Interestingly, some claim Gustave Whitehead (born Gustav Albin Weisskopf) designer and builder of early engines and flying machines was the first to successfully take to the air with a controlled powered flight in Connecticut 1901. Either way the rest is Air & Space history as the man has definely conquered gravity and is adding by leaps and bounds interplanetary space travel as regular as today's air travel. Space Odyssey 2001 is just years away....Walter Pietrowicz
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WWII AIRCRAFT
• North American SNJ-2 Texan (Skytypers Air Show team)
• Junkers Ju 52
• Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
• North American B-25 Mitchell
• Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
• Vought Corsair
• Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3)
• North American P-51
• Miscellaneous Aircraft
• Grumman TBF./TBM Avenger

MODERN MILITARY AIRCRAFT
• Blue Angles
• Thunderbirds
• Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
• Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
• Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt
• McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet / Boeing F-18 Super Hornet
• McDonnell Douglas Harrier
• Lockheed Martin C-130 (+other variants)
• Miscellaneous Aircraft

AIR & SPACE MUSEUMS
• Cradle of Aviation Museum, Long Island, New York
• Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia (Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Annex)
• American Airpower Museum, Farmingdale, Long Island, New York
• Kennedy Space Center, Florida
• Naval Air Station (NAS) Wildwood Aviation Museum, New Jersey

• AEROBATIC AIRCRAFT

• BiPLANES

HELICOPTERS
• Miscellaneous Helicopters
• Eurocopter MH-65 Dolphin (used by Coast Guard)
• Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk
• Sikorsky HH-60J Jayhawk

• HOT AIR BALLOONS

• U.S. ARMY "GOLDEN KNIGHTS" PARACHUTE TEAM


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