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Except, perhaps, of Ohio, no other state is no longer synonymous with aviation than Connecticut. Inextricably linked to many aircraft the most renowned in the world, powertrain, and manufacturers of propeller, he was asked by the likes of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation at Pratt & Whitney, Chance Vought, Avco Lycoming, Hamilton Standard and Technology Collective States. Many of their valuable contributions can be accessed by visiting its sites in aviation.

National Museum of the helicopter

Sandwiched between Avco Lycoming Stratford at one end and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, the other, and located in the left, 48 feet long eastbound Metro North Railroad Station, the National Helicopter Museum traces the technological evolution and history of rotary wing aircraft.

Brainchild of Dr. Raymond E. Jankovich, a local pediatrician, and Robert McCloud, founder of The Stratford Bard, it was conceptualized in 1978 because of its location associated helicopter and the potential benefits of the city. His property has been cemented by a grant from Avco Lycoming.

Billing itself as the only museum dedicated to these aircraft and rotary wing opened in 1983, is run entirely by volunteers, most of whom are former employees of Sikorsky, and a photographic essay displayed chronologically, models, and a few cell sections that collectively describes the design, the nature of the helicopter, which had traditionally tried to imitate aerial flight, the 21st century.

The helicopter has its origin in the Chinese flying highs in the fourth century BC. Composed of short, round sticks, they were affixed to "helicopter blade, or airfoil-like, feathers. Rotation is rubbed back and forth or pulled by a rope, they spun and feathers angle generated lift, pushing up vertically.

Leonardo da Vinci later made numerous sketches of wings to fly gliders, parachutes, and screw air can lift humans, screw machine made in the conduct of air, which he theorizes, " when the force generated faster movement that flight without air resistance, the air is compressed in the manner of feathers compressed and crushed by the weight of a sleeper. And the thing that led air resistance find it, after bouncing like a ball struck against a wall ".

museum's own "In The Beginning" display illustrates these concepts early. First rotary wing man was the prehistoric boomerang, which led to the early Chinese and Helix Vinci, the first recorded "helicopter" design.

His "first dreams" drawings, from 1843, are both round and fan-like rotors side by side, while those generated by Sir George Cayley was flatter, forming a wing in flight.

The "first prophets' survey indicates that the success of the first, mounted under tension reaches a height of 40 feet during a flight of 20 seconds.

A helicopter rotor-60, designed by Gustave Whitehead in 1911, appears in "Before Sikorsky collection," while the "International Achievement" panel represents the developmental period between 1930 and 1935.

Professor EH Henrich, as shown in the bottom-up "German" Control Panel, formed a new company to pursue his dreams of designing a rotorcraft having served as a Focke-Wulfe's design chief, and he made a Flight 28 seconds June 26, 1936.

A mural entitled "Birth of First Flight" and got the Sikorsky plant displays a very short period of its designs, starting with the VS-300-V1, 1942.

engine development can be learned from "The Revolution of gas turbines." The steam engine, for example, had too much weight of the structure to support the technology then known vertical takeoff, but the powertrain light gasoline, appearing just after the turn-of-the-century, has been used ubiquitous. The.