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The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in Uniondale, New York on Long Island 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. In fact, so many seminal flights occurred in the area, that by the mid-1920s the cluster of airfields was already dubbed the "''Cradle of Aviation''",〔Basset, Preston, "The History of Aviation on Long Island", Sperry Rand Corporation, 1957.〕 the origin of the museum's name. ==Long Island – The Cradle of Aviation== ''Aviation firsts'' that contributed to Long Island's nickname - the "''Cradle of Aviation'':"〔Kaiser, William K., Ed., The development of the aerospace industry on Long Island, 3 vols., Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y., 1968, LC Control No: 67030029.〕 *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. *1916 - First night flight. *1917 - First flight of pilotless aircraft, the Sperry Aerial torpedo. *1919 - First transatlantic crossing by an airship (R34 (airship)) which arrives at Roosevelt Field from England. *1923 - First non-stop transcontinental airplane flight from Mitchel Field to San Diego, CA by John A. Macready and Oakley G. Kelly. *1924 - First round-the-world flight arrives at Mitchel Field. *1927 - First solo transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh from Roosevelt Field to Paris, France. *1927 - First transatlantic passenger flight by Clarence D. Chamberlin from Roosevelt Field to Eisleben, Germany. *1929 - First "blind" instrument flight by Jimmy Doolittle at Mitchel Field. Instruments developed by the Sperry and Kollsman companies of Long Island. The Cradle of Aviation Museum's first curator, until 1985, William K. Kaiser, participated in an ''aviation first'' as one of the pilots on the first transatlantic crossing of non-rigid airships in 1944 as a young ensign in the United States Navy.〔http://www.warwingsart.com/LTA/zp-14.html〕〔http://www.naval-airships.org/resources/documents/NAN_vol93_no2_KShips_feature.pdf〕 For his educational contributions and curatorial work at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Kaiser was named a Jimmy Doolittle Fellow and an Ira Eaker Fellow by the Air Force Association Aerospace Education Foundation in 1986.〔http://www.afa.org/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cradle of Aviation Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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