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National Landmarks of Soaring NLS number Landmark/event Location Date issued 1 Corn Hill Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: 1981-06-13 2 Rhodes Farm Elmira, New York: 1982-07-10 3 Akron Fulton Airport: Akron, Ohio: 1985-06-29 4 Sleeping Bear Dunes sites Frankfort, Michigan: 1992-05-09 5 Torrey Pines Gliderport: San Diego, California: 1992-06-06 6 ...
Christopher Wills, the son of Philip Wills, founded the Vintage Glider Club in 1973. He died on 4 May 2011 but left a bequest of £100,000 to build a hangar to house vintage gliders plus his Steinadler. A group of enthusiasts decided to create a Gliding Heritage Centre which could be visited by members of the public in a building called The ...
The Soaring Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have made the highest achievements in, or contributions to, the sport of soaring in the United States of America. It has been located at the National Soaring Museum in Elmira, New York, since 1975. The Hall has inducted the following people, arranged in alphabetical order, with their year of ...
The Schweizer SGS 1-26 is a United States One-Design, single-seat, mid-wing glider built by Schweizer Aircraft of Elmira, New York. [3]The SGS 1-26 enjoyed a very long production run from its first flight in 1954 until 1979, when production was ended.
By 1969 the Soaring Society of America had earmarked Harris Hill as the location for the future National Soaring Museum. The museum was established as an independent nonprofit corporation. The New York State Department of Education chartered the museum as a non-profit educational institution in 1972. [4]
The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is an art museum in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.The Eiteljorg houses an extensive collection of visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as Western American paintings and sculptures collected by businessman and philanthropist Harrison Eiteljorg (1903–1997).
The On The Road scroll on exhibit in Lowell, Massachusetts, 2007. The first major acquisition of the Jim Irsay Collection came in May 2001, when Irsay purchased Jack Kerouac's original typescript scroll for his 1957 novel On The Road. Kerouac wrote his seminal Beat Generation novel over a 20-day period in 1951 while living in Manhattan, New ...
Willard and Josephine Hubbard House is a historic home located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1903, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay, center-hall plan, Italian Renaissance Revival style limestone dwelling with an addition. It features a front wooden portico supported by Ionic order columns and a semi-circular front section.