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When Pierre Blanchard from Philadelphia was mounted in a hot air balloon January 9, 1793 and made the trip 15 mile on the Delaware River to Deptford, New Jersey, he had first Western Hemisphere air flight, triggering a long line of aviation achievements in the Garden State.

Charles Durant, of Jersey City, for example, had subsequently become the first American balloonist to fly in 1830 and Dr. Solomon Andrews in building the first airship three years later, rising above Perth Amboy and s' is left for Long Island and unprecedented achievement by air.

The brothers Boland, Rahway, built the first fixed-wing aircraft in 1909 and became the first to fly in South America. Three years later, in 1912, Oliver Simmons was the first official bag of mail through Raritan Bay, South Amboy to Perth Amboy, in a Wright Flyer. The five First World War aviators had first hailed from New Jersey, winning the title in 1918. The world's first airship, the USS Shenandoah, was built at Lakehurst in 1921. Barling Bomber, built at Teterboro Airport in 1922 by brothers Wittlemann, was then the largest aircraft ever designed.

Air-cooled Whirlwind engine built at Princeton, has fueled many planes in the early 1920s. Postal Service Center of Metropolitan New York, founded in 1925, was located at Hadley Field in South Planfield. Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett were the first to navigate a three-engined Fokker built Teterboro, Whirlwind-powered, flying over the North Pole in 1926.'s Exploit was one of many but made possible by the engine: 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in the Spirit St. Louis Clarence Chamberlin flew to Germany two weeks later, and Richard Byrd and a crew of three flew to France, while powered aircraft vorticity.

Newark Metropolitan Airport, the busiest airport in the world, opened its doors in 1928 and has become the American air traffic controller first, William "Whitney" Conrad.

The 1930s have continued to see the achievements of aviation New Jersey. Fokker, for example, designed the plane in the world's largest passenger, F.32 at Teterboro Airport in 1930, while Amelia Earhart had prepared for his solo transatlantic flight here, and Aviation During the first school was established in Teaneck. Glen Rock Chester Decker became the national champion of the outbreak in both 1936 and 1939. Lakehurst Naval Air Station was the docking point for the Graf Zeppelin Hindenburg.

Between 1942 and 1945, General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division built 13,500 fighters and Grumman's plant Tilden Trenton to the war effort, while the Company Curtiss-Wright produced 281,164 engines and 146,468 electric propellers in six northern parts of New Jersey. Major Thomas McGuire of Ridgewood, New Jersey became the second country ACE first flight, after shooting down 38 enemy planes, while Chacteau Frderick mountain lakes and First Lieutenant Kenneth Walsh Jersey City, with McGuire, had received Medal of Honor for their feats of Congress.

The first rocket engine, developed by Reaction Motors of Danville in 1947, had pushed the Bell X-1, the first design to break the sound barrier, while their subsequent rocket engine had not supplied the North American X- 15, the first aircraft to fly in space.

The world's first hovercraft was designed by Charles Fletcher, of Sussex in 1953.

Beyond the atmosphere, Walter M. Schirra Oradell became the only astronaut to fly in all three satellites in 1968 - Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and - all of Montclair Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first astronaut to the land of a vehicle on the moon a year later.

New Jersey's rich heritage of civil aviation and military can be explored.