Cradle of Aviation Museum (Cradle of Aviation Museum)
The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in Uniondale, New York on Long Island, established to commemorate Long Island's part in the history of aviation. It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains, was the site of many historic flights. So many seminal flights had occurred in the area that, by the mid-1920s, the cluster of airfields was already dubbed the "Cradle of Aviation", the origin of the museum's name.
Aviation firsts that contributed to Long Island's nickname - the "Cradle of Aviation":
* 1873 - First recorded flight over the island, a balloon piloted by W. H. Donaldson from Brooklyn to Queens Village.
* 1874 - More balloon flights, New York City to Lynbrook and Lynbrook to Hempstead.
* 1909 - Glenn Curtiss flies a plane 25 miles from Mineola and wins the Scientific American Prize.
* 1910 - The International Aerial Tournament is held at Belmont Park.
* 1911 - Cal Rodgers makes the first transcontinental airplane flight from Sheepshead Bay to California in the Vin Fiz Flyer.
* 1916 - First night flight.
* 1917 - First flight of pilotless aircraft, the Sperry Aerial Torpedo.
* 1919 - First transatlantic flight by any aircraft, via airplane (US Navy NC-4 (flying boat)) from NAS Rockaway, Long Island, and arrived at Plymouth England, via stops in Massachusetts, Newfoundland, the Azores, and Portugal.
Aviation firsts that contributed to Long Island's nickname - the "Cradle of Aviation":
* 1873 - First recorded flight over the island, a balloon piloted by W. H. Donaldson from Brooklyn to Queens Village.
* 1874 - More balloon flights, New York City to Lynbrook and Lynbrook to Hempstead.
* 1909 - Glenn Curtiss flies a plane 25 miles from Mineola and wins the Scientific American Prize.
* 1910 - The International Aerial Tournament is held at Belmont Park.
* 1911 - Cal Rodgers makes the first transcontinental airplane flight from Sheepshead Bay to California in the Vin Fiz Flyer.
* 1916 - First night flight.
* 1917 - First flight of pilotless aircraft, the Sperry Aerial Torpedo.
* 1919 - First transatlantic flight by any aircraft, via airplane (US Navy NC-4 (flying boat)) from NAS Rockaway, Long Island, and arrived at Plymouth England, via stops in Massachusetts, Newfoundland, the Azores, and Portugal.
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