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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 ...
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 ...
In 1975, the SSA Board of Directors transferred the Soaring Hall of Fame to the National Soaring Museum. [4] The museum features a large collection of vintage and historical gliders. [3] The museum also administers the National Landmark of Soaring program to recognize people, places and events which are significant in the history of motorless ...
The first Silent Wings Museum opened to the public on November 10, 1984, in Terrell, east of Dallas. By 1997, the need for a more permanent museum home was realized. Responding to the need for a permanent glider home, the city of Lubbock, where a majority of the pilots had originally trained, offered to provide a new site for the museum.
By 2014 the collection included more than sixty aircraft, [2] all German, showing their development from Otto Lilienthal's hang gliders through wooden machines to the earliest glassfibre aircraft of the 1960s. There are also photographic records, focussing on the series of Rhön contests, with aircraft pilots and designers.
Museum of History and Labor Glory Ukhtomskogo helicopter plant named after N.I. Kamov , Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast; Museum of Naval Aviation of Northern Fleet , Safonovo, Murmansk Oblast; Museum of the History of aviation engine and repair , Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast; Museum of Stalingrad battle , Volgograd
The museum was founded by Gerald Oliver, Jr. in 1981 at Capital Airport in Springfield, Illinois around plans to restore a B-25 using parts recovered from Alabama. [1] [2] It briefly included a second chapter in Bloomington, before that organization split off to form the Prairie Aviation Museum in 1983. [3]
In 1996, the National Soaring Museum honored the 100th anniversary of the glider flying experiments in the sand dunes along Lake Michigan as National Landmark of Soaring No. 8. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach , in Daytona Beach, Florida , has an off-campus residence hall, the Chanute Complex, for upper-class students.