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The planted on Long Island Hempstead Plains in 1909 when Glenn Curtiss had first flown over in his Golden Flyer biplane, had sprouted and grown over a period of six years until it finally connected his own soil with that of its moon.

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Its many aerospace, illustrating its general aviation, commercial, military and space industries, and geographically divided between Garden City and Calverton, recount the trip.

2. Cradle of

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

Tracing its origin to 1979 when then-County Executive Francis T. Purcell designated funds for the restoration of two old aircraft hangars at Mitchel Field, he displayed several dozen aircraft until it closed for renovation in 1995. The 130,000 square foot, $ 40 million facility, opened on the 75th anniversary of Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight in 2002, features more than 70 air and spacecraft, including 11 one of the designs of its kind, associated or built on Long Island and was discovered during a search of 20 who had stretched from the bottom of Lake Michigan at Guadalcanal. They were then restored and preserved by the airline retired and volunteers for the defense manufacturer, which collectively contributed about 650,000 hours of work for the project. The result was the largest on Long Island, year-round educational, recreational, and cultural institution.

According New York State Governor George E. Pataki, visitors to the museum “can see the short period of years in 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 home becomes a mirror reflecting our own powerful skills, intelligence and ability to conquer time and space and pays tribute to innovation and the American pioneering spirit. ”

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

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The main eight galleries located within two 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 1922 biplane designed by the Sperry Messenger Company Lawrence Sperry Farmingdale aircraft crashes.

According to the plate of the bridge, “said Long Island has been at the forefront of American aviation and space adventure for the last hundred years … It started here on the Plains Hempstead Long Island. ”

A down 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 balloon, kite, glider, airship experiments and transformed the dream of flight into reality and led to his successors heavier than air, the display aerostatic lift generation, tetrahedral kite Alexander Graham Bell, Otto Lilienthal glider, and Timmons 1906 kite built in Queens, the oldest museum exhibition flight. A 20-HP engine Glenn Curtiss airship, developed two years later, and a Mineola Bike Shop, which demonstrates, in the Wright brothers vein, the transfer of technology of the bicycle to the airplane with propellers and wings, complement the exhibition.

The “Hempstead Plains’ gallery, the next meeting, is a 1910 air meet. Amid records turn the propellers and the acceleration of the aircraft, a collection of early drawings grace the field of grass-carpeted and includes an original Blériot XI of 1909, the world’s fourth oldest of the cell yet operational, a replica of spruce and bamboo Glenn Curtiss Golden Flyer, the first aircraft heavier than air flying over Long Island, a replica of the Wright brothers Vin Fiz, a monoplane Henriot, a Farman biplane, a Anzani 1911, and a “car”. 1913 Studebaker

During the First World War, as evidenced by the following gallery, the triumph of flight has been transferred to the destruction of man, the aircraft has assumed the role reciprocal of a weapon, and Long Island became the center of military aircraft design, testing, and. production during this time on display is the first aircraft acquired by Charles Lindbergh, a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny bought in 1923 for $ 500 along with a coach in 1918 Breese Penguin, the only remaining of the 250 originally produced a state of Thomas-Morse S4C airworthiness Scout biplane with its original Marlin machine gun, and F. Trubee Davison World War One wooden hangar, which features ribs, uncovered the cell a Curtiss Jenny with his engine, propeller and fuel tank and a 160-hp Gnome Monosoupope 1916, engine from France .

During the golden age of aviation, which extends the period of 20 years from 1919 to 1938, aviation has matured, the evolution of a dangerous sport for a viable commercial industry. The motley collection of aircraft in this gallery include the sister ship of the original Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis and used during the filming of the epic, Aircraft Engineering Corporation “Ace”, who became America’s plan first sport: a replica of a Curtiss / Sperry Aerial Torpedo, a Grumman F3F 1932-2 Scout Navy fighter, a Brunner Winkle Byrd Model A biplane built in Glendale, Queens, an American Aviation Corporation / Savoia Marchetti S-56 amphibians made in Port Washington, a Grumman G-21 Goose in Blue, Pan American System

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During the Second World War, as evidenced by its respective gallery, the aircraft produced by Grumman Repubic and was decisive the victory of the United States, and within six years from 1939 to 1945 represented approximately 45,000 cells had left the production line. On display are powerless Waco CG-4 glider troops, which had been used to provide soldiers behind enemy lines, a Republic P-47N Thunderbolt, a Grumman F6F Hellcat, a Grumman TBM Avenger, a Grumman F6F Hellcat, a Douglas C- 47 of the cockpit and nose section, and type-2 Sperry A gun in the turret which had protected the underside of the B-17 and B-24 long range bomber.

The pure-jet engine, as evidenced by the gallery Jet Age, has revolutionized military aviation, equipping aircraft with unprecedented speed, range, maneuverability and ability to attack, and Grumman Aircraft Corporation was instrumental in this development, having designed more than 40 civilians and military types, which totaled about 33,000 cells and created jobs for 200,000 people of Long Island. Military aircraft, in particular, played a crucial role in many conflicts, including Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. On display are several models of Grumman, including an E-2 Hawkeye airborne early warning / command and air control, F9F-7 Cougar, the forward fuselage of an F-14 Tomcat, and a simulator A -6 Intruder cockpit, while the Republic of aviation is represented by an F-84B Thunderjet, a supersonic fighter F-105B, and a cockpit section A-10A Thunderbolt-. A Boeing 727 nose section and cockpit and a Westinghouse J-34 turbine engine around with this.

The “Contemporary Aviation” Gallery Features air traffic control radar screens that highlight the congested JFK, LaGuardia, Newark and triplex, and their secondary airports from Long Island MacArthur and Westchester County in White Plains, and Farmingdale Republic Airport, the busiest state general aviation reliever /.

The “Space Exploration” gallery, the last of eight, illustrates the dramatic transition of atmospheric flight to space vacuumless and emphasizes the contribution of rich Long Island to the aerospace Its exhibits include a rocket Goddard A-Series; . A Grumman orbiting astronomical observatory, a Grumman echo adapter, a scale model of the Sputnik satellite, which was presented by the Soviet Union and whose original material had launched the space race, a Rigel ramjet missile Grumman from 1953, a Grumman Lunar Module simulator, and a command module that Rockwell had been used in a test re-entry of land 25 000 mph in 1966 before the spaceflight Apollo.

A “clean room”, which represents the environment in which all the lunar modules were made by hand, leads to the gallery’s exhibition and the museum’s most precious, genuine, 22.9 meters high, covered with foil Gold LM-13, the thirteenth and last lunar module built, dramatically lit with her legs tucked on a simulated moonscape. Mechanical historical monument, the lunar module were the first beings, and so far only probe to have never carried a man of the earth to another planet or its moons. Jet

The Museum Annex Gallery, which shares facilities with the Museum of Long Island firefighter has a Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, the forward fuselage of a Grumman F-14A, a complete F-cell 14A Tomcat, a Grumman A-6E Intruder, and the nose section forward and the cockpit of a Boeing 707 of El Al

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Other museum includes seven stories high, with 300 seats, 76 feet wide, Leroy R. and Rose W. Grumman IMAX Theater, the largest state of New York Hall dome and Long Island only IMAX screen; the Martian theme of the Red Planet Cafe, which displays the 1961 Grumman “Molab” Mobile Lunar Laboratory designed to travel lunar surface , Housing, and tests and a balcony-located Aerospace Honor Roll, and Mitchel Field Outpost gift and bookshop

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The Cradle of Aviation Museum is a world-class institution that preserves, displays, and interprets the heritage of Long Island, aerospace rich.

3. American Airpower Museum

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The Airpower Museum, located in Farmingdale Republic Airport, oozes history. It is housed in a historic hangar, where historic WWII aircraft was manufactured, and these were then tested in this historic airfield.

Republic the airport itself, founded in 1928 as Fairchild Flying Field when existing Sherman Fairchild had become too small for the continued support FC-2 and Model 71 production, had passed the torch to Grumman for five years from 1932 to 1937, when the engine Fairchild Aircraft Manufacturing Company and himself had moved to Maryland.

Seversky, establish its presence on the ground in 1935, continued its tradition of aircraft manufacturing and testing, renumbering itself “Republic Aviation” and considerably expanding its facilities with three new hangars, a tower control, and a longer runway. A leading supplier of military designs, he beat more than 9,000 P-47 Thunderbolt during World War II and 800 F-105 Thunderchief during the Vietnam conflict.

After acquired the airport in 1965, Fairchild-Hiller Corporation sold in Farmingdale, which has turned into a public institution the following year, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), to purchase 25 million dollars in 1969, renamed the Republic Airport, the extension of existing Runway 14-32, the construction of a tower 100 feet from the FAA, and the construction of a passenger terminal small.

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The 526-acre general aviation reliever /, whose ownership changed once again to the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT), in April 1983, has some $ 139 million economic impact on the counties of Nassau and Suffolk. Its function and had 546 in transitional record 190,723 movements a year, 93 percent include general aviation, six per cent of air taxi and military per cent in a full range of aircraft types, including one engine, multi-engine, piston, turboprop and pure jet and rotary wing, and the use of its two runways. 5,516 feet of runway 19/01 and 6827 feet of runway 14-32, as New York’s third largest airport in terms of takeoffs and landings from JFK and La Guardia, and its largest field of general aviation, there has 1634 Treaty shipments, mainly due to the charter business in 2005.

Amidst this atmosphere, off New Road, is the American Airpower Museum. Hangar 3, its location, was completed in 1927, with other structures at a cost of $ 500,000 and has served as incubator of some 9,000 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt during World War II. Consequently, it was considered part of the “arsenal of democracy.” The museum, launched after a grant of $ 250,000 of Governor George E. Pataki and dedicated during annual airport Pearl Harbor Day Service Memorial to 2000, was built as a living tribute to the veteran population of Long Island, honoring the past and present, and create a regional tourism destination, and the birthplace of Aviation Museum.

Colonel Francis Gabreski, who scored most of his victories World War II Republic P-47, was the highest ranking ace in Long Island and had previously served as honorary captain of the museum.

Complementing static displays at the birthplace of aviation Museum itself, the American Airpower Museum features the sights, sounds and experiences of veterans of World War II operations and attacks, the first time in 54 years that the metropolitan New York can boast of a such achievement. As Williamsburg military aviation, installation accurately proclaims its mission “where the story flies.”

Its diverse collection of devices pristinely restored includes trainers, fighters, carriers marine recognition of the oceans, bombers, and the post-war jet type II.

The North American T-6 Texan, for example, made its first flight in 1935 and was one of the most widely used advanced trainer driver hunting during the war.

Of fighters, the Curtiss-Wright P-40 Warhawk, who also flew the first time this year, reached 363 mph speed and is currently delivered Flying Tiger. No aircraft could be more to the ease in the hangar of the American Airpower Museum 3, however, that the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the design has been assembled here by thousands. First take the sky from the single track meters in 1940, he was the largest, heaviest single-engine, fighter pilot piston single product ever, reaching speeds of 467-mph. The P-51 Mustang, whose maximum speed was 30 mph less than the lightning, have made escorts high altitude B-17 and B-24 long range bomber, kill more enemy planes than any other WWII fighter European theater.

Of the Navy aircraft, the Grumman TBM Avenger, a bomber of torpedo door, had driven German submarines off the coast of Long Island, while Vought FG-1D Corsair had been used by the Navy and Marines and reached 446-mph speeds.

The Consolidated PBY Catalina, a wing high, amphibious reconnaissance plane piloted by a crew Ocean eight years, searching for enemy submarines. It was a great mile-2545, a service ceiling of 15,748 feet and a speed of 178 mph

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The, mid-range North American B-25 Mitchell bomber, named “Miss Hap”, had been a plane that General Hap Arnold, while the type in general was made famous by the Doolittle Raid.

The collection also includes several fighter aircraft. The L-39 Albatros, for example, is a 570-mph Soviet coach whose first flight in 1968 and is still in service in 16 countries. The Republic F-84 Thunderjet, a leading pure-fighters, reached speeds of 620-km / h and served from 1948 to the Korean War. The RF-84 Thunderflash, also designed by the Republic, is a photographic reconnaissance aircraft 720-km / h with a capacity photograph horizon to horizon, and served between 1953 and 1971. The Republic F-105 Thunderchief, a supersonic fighter and bomber attack, had been widely deployed to Vietnam in its F-105D, carrying more than 12,000 pounds of ammunition and reach speeds of 1390 mph h. He served for a quarter of a century, from 1955 to 1980. The General Dynamics F-111, a supersonic aircraft to strike, March 1.2, variable geometry, its first flight in 1967, and had seen service in Vietnam, Libya and Iraq.

Aside the aircraft themselves, there are sections before and the passenger, including those of a Fairchild-Republic A-10, Mig-21, a Beech 18/C-45, and a Douglas C- 47, and engines, such as General Electric J-47 and V-1710 Allison.

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World War II is told through film, period scenes and dioramas, model and extensive collection of memorabilia, vintage vehicles, a “Ready Room”, a “Briefing Room” a “canteen,” a gift shop, and music related to the ERA.

Tours are regularly supplied to the historic five-story, 1943 the control tower located in Hangar 4. The view from the cabin in the middle of vintage radio and radar equipment overlooking two airports runways Republic, provides an overview of the functions of controllers, which are often included coordination vectors of P-47, A-10, F -84 and F-105 en route to the region’s dense network of air base compound Zahn airport, then practically across the road, Grumman in Bethpage, Mitchel Field in Garden City, Floyd Bennett Field Naval Air station in Brooklyn, and the Vought plant in Long Island Sound, Connecticut, a network focusing on the role of Long Island nucleic early in aviation.

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Because is essentially operational, several flight experiments are offered.

Its own, and the signature, on occasion, aboard a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, which was finally used by the Israeli Air Force, simulates the famous D-Day Allied invasion of Normandy during the early hours of the morning of June 6, 1944.

After don the uniform of paratrooper helmets, parachutes and modified in the waiting room, would-be jumpers go to the briefing room, where, amid the wooden benches and maps of the time, the mission course is detailed and the necessary combination of maneuver behind the hedges French after parachuting to the ground. French francs were distributed.

The cohesion, identically clad team now goes on board the twin-engine C-47 olive green, which is configured with side benches made of wood and shared operations in Normandy.

During theft was recent years, the aircraft taxied off the runway of an airport Republic and started his engine piston-powered roll acceleration, increasing its tail wheel and give it to perfect blue sky while its retractable landing gear.

Climbing to 1,200 feet and maintain a speed of 125 km / h, the Douglas horse twin Long Island, south offshore of Jones Beach, which simulated the sands similar Normandy.

Upon achieve the designated drop zone, ” the jumpmaster yelled: “Get up! Check equipment! Hook up! “And their parachute lines connected to the aircraft for rescue is imminent.

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Parachute were drilled and reality, 1944 was related cases. Unfortunately, realism must necessarily stop there.

Nevertheless after relanding, the feeling of disconnection D-Day during the jump was recreated by real soldiers are temporary out the back door on the left, their lines of Velcro attached separating the chaff soft muting, symbolic of the machine before be induced gravity in a cloth exponentially accelerate French soil until the surface deciphering their parachutes bloomed in blade stop.

Before striking uniforms, passengers are asked to reach into their pockets to retrieve a map that reveals the identity of their historic double or paratrooper they had shown during the mission simulation. The parachutist, however, had made the jump. And the card indicates whether he lived or died as a result of the it.

Other the American Airpower Museum experience own C-47 flight, vintage aircraft displays static and flight opportunities are scheduled during holidays and special occasions, such as during the Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, anniversaries, and the annual Labor Day Flight of Aces weekend, the latter designed to encourage young people to write about the virtues, victories and achievements of a friend in World War II age or The winning parent is assigned an experience flying bomber aircraft included the C-121 Constellation MATS .. and the Berlin Airlift “Spirit of Freedom” C-54, B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator, the B-25 Mitchell and PT-17 Stearman, the last four have been operated by the Collings Foundation.

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A post-museum visit to the 56th Fighter Group Restaurant located on Route 110 near the airport Republic, although not affiliated with the museum itself, both full and completes the Second World War days of living history. Resembling a strong 1940 in wartime English, it also carries the dinner this time with his “Mess” entry, rustic wood ceilings, fireplace decorated dining rooms; World War II-related photographs, memorabilia, and propellers; simulated bombed-out courtyard; Big Band music and no view of the replica P-40, P-47 and Corsair aircraft. steak and seafood menu is known for its signature beer-cheese soup.

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The Airpower Aviation Museum is a lifetime of Portal Second World War and the invaluable contribution of Long Island’s win this one. A post-museum lunch at the 56th Fighter Group Restaurant provides culinary cap to her.

4. Bayport Aerodrome Living Aviation Museum

The Bayport Aerodrome Living Aviation Museum, created by the Bayport Aerodrome Society to preserve and present aviation of the 20th century in an airport grass agent, is a complex of 24 old aircraft hangar and experimental private airfield located in Bayport.

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The, three miles south of Long Island MacArthur Airport, is an area with a single nontowered, 150 feet wide with grass in 2740 feet long / grass runway (18-36) and 45 aircraft based on one engine . In its daily average of 28 movements, 98 percent are locals, with the rest transient. field identified Davis from 1910 to 1952, he was then renamed Edwards Airport until 1977, after which it was acquired by the city Islip. On January 22, 2008, he was enrolled in the National Register of Historic Places, a feat, proudly proclaimed by the plaque, which reads: “… only Bayport Aerodrome w LI public airport runways in grass / National Historic status 2008 ”

Formed 1972 for the very purpose of preserving such a time, the Bayport Aerodrome Society organizes supplementary visits on weekends between June and September from the collection of operational aircraft, including Piper Cubs, Waco biplanes , N2S Stearman, Fleet Model 16Bs, Byrds, and PT-22. There is also a small museum.

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The Old Grand Salon Grand Old Airshow debut in 2006 at Brookhaven Calabro Airport, was established to carry spectators now, biplane and World War II eras and develop aviation on Long Island.

Calabro the airport itself is a 600-acre nontowered, municipal affairs, which was built during WWII world to provide logistical support for the Army Air Corps, but was acquired by the town of Brookhaven in 1961, the General Aviation Division is working now. The field, two tracks sports-4 ,200-foot Runway 24/06 and Runway 15/33 4224 feet, it accommodates three fixed-base operators that provide stowage blocks, T-hangars, warehouses conventional flight training, and refueling, and that the Eastern Suffolk Boces, the Dowling College School of Aviation, Long Island Soaring Association, Island Air and Air. There is a small device with a sandwich. Of its 217 aircraft based there, some types encompass 92 percent on one engine, and it averages 370 per day or 135,100 per year, movements.

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The seduces visitors with urging him to “join us this year, we go back in time to celebrate Long Island Golden Age of Aviation “, a time when” the sky biplanes honored decades ago. ” He continues by offering the experience of “old aviation, like the First World War battles, open cockpit biplanes, World War II veterans, and, of course, the famous Geico Skytypers, rising in the sky Blue Long Island. ”

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Previous presented older vehicles and static aircraft displays, the latter encompassing TBM Avengers, Fokker Dr-1, Newport, and Messerschmidt ME-109, while aerobatic maneuvers have included comedy performed in Piper J-3 Cubs to “Random” Audience member Carl spackle; Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome borrowed Delsey-Dives and balloon bursts targeted by Great Lakes Speedster, the fleet 16Bs, and PT-17 Stearmans; speed races between Track bikes and assorted air, from low PT-17; by SF-260S aerobatic and skywriting by Sukhoi 29s

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A Sikorsky UH-34D Sea Horse Marine helicopter used for rescue of combat in Vietnam , during the Cuban missile crisis, and by NASA during the recovery program Project Mercury astronaut, demonstrated research and rescue procedures.

Both Long Island aviation and flight training are well represented. Shows past presented Byrd, N3N, Fleet Model 16B, and N2S Stearman Aircraft Corporation Bayport Aerodrome, P-40 Hawks and P-51 Mustang Warbirds over Long Island; F4U Corsairs at the American Airpower Museum, and American North SNJ-2s of the Republic Airport Skytypers based Geico.

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Vintage. spectators bring their own lawn chairs and align next to the runway. There is costumed and speeches are given by the Tuskegee Airmen. truck dealership selling everything from hot dogs to ice cream and souvenirs and many schools and aviation-related booths associations man.

The Grand Old Airshow, which held in the fall, one day, one visit, preview outdoors into the sky where the history of aviation on Long Island with many facets was written and where it is now recreated.

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Grumman Grumman Memorial Park Memorial Park, located on a one-acre site of the former Grumman Aerospace Test Flight Facility in Calverton only a thousand feet of one of its tracks, is, according to his own description, “a deliberate effort to tribute to the incredible advances in aviation and space flight, which took place on Long Island thanks to the teamwork of the employees of Grumman Corporation. This group of dedicated individuals took aviation from the deck of a U.S. carrier battle Navy aircraft in the first steps of man on the moon. ”

Leroy Randle Grumman, the man behind the name of that company, was born January 4, 1895 and established the Grumman Aircraft

A graduate of Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus with a summa-cum-laude Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Languages and Journalism, I have subsequently earned the Associate in Applied Science Degree in Aerospace Technology at the State University of New York – College of Technology at Farmingdale.  I have also earned the Continuing Community Education Teaching Certificate from the Nassau Association for Continuing Community Education (NACCE) at Molloy College, the Travel Career Development Certificate from the Institute of Certified Travel Agents (ICTA) at LIU, the Art and Science of Teaching Certificate at Long Island University, and completed a Multi-Genre Writing Program at Hofstra University.  At SUNY Farmingdale Aerospace I completed some 30 hours of Private Pilot Flight Training in Cessna C-152 and -172 aircraft.

Having amassed almost three decades in the airline industry, I managed the New York-JFK and Washington-Dulles stations at Austrian Airlines, created the North American Station Training Program, served as an Aviation Advisor to Farmingdale State University of New York, and devised and taught the Airline Management Certificate Program at the Long Island Educational Opportunity Center.

A freelance author, I have written some 70 books of the short story, novel, nonfiction, essay, poetry, article, log, curriculum, training manual, and textbook genre in English, German, and Spanish, having principally focused on aviation and travel, and I have been published in book, magazine, newsletter, and electronic Web site form. I am a writer for Cole Palen’s Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York. I have made some 350 lifetime trips by air, sea, rail, and road.

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