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As early as the late 1960s, Stanley Hiller began collecting aircraft at a warehouse in Redwood City, California. [1] [2] By 1986, it displayed 15 aircraft and set a goal of a acquiring a total of 28 of Hiller's designs. [3] Eight years later it had surpassed this and the Hiller Museum of Northern California Aviation Heritage included over 40 ...
Stanley Hiller donated money and a number of aircraft to form the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California, which opened in 1998. In 2009, the Hiller (China) Aircraft Manufacturing Company [6] began construction of a production facility in Zhangjiakou City, northwest of Beijing. The company is a joint venture between Hiller Aircraft ...
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia ... Hiller may refer to: Hiller (surname) ... Hiller Flying Platform; Tanner-Hiller Airport; Hiller Aviation Museum ...
The Buhl A-1 Autogiro was an autogyro optimised for air camera work designed and built from 1930. To this end, Etienne Dormoy designed [citation needed] the Buhl A-1, an autogyro with a pusher engine located behind the pilot and camera operator.
Hiller donated the XH-44 to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 1953. [4] The helicopter was restored in 1974, and in 1997 it was lent back to Hiller and displayed at the Hiller Aviation Museum. [4] The original XH-44 was later moved to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, with the Hiller Aviation Museum displaying a replica in its ...
Stanley Hiller was born November 15, 1924, in San Francisco, California, to Stanley Hiller, Sr. and Opal Perkins.The family moved to Berkeley, California, in the 1930s.. At the age of 15, he designed the world's first successful coaxial helicopter, and produced a working model.
The Hiller YH-32 Hornet (company designation HJ-1) is an American ultralight helicopter built by Hiller Aircraft in the early 1950s. It was a small and unique design because it was powered by two Hiller 8RJ2B ramjet engines mounted on the rotor blade tips which weigh 13 lb (5.9 kg) each and deliver an equivalent of 45 hp (34 kW) for a total of 90 hp (67 kW). [3]
One is located at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California, the other is at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. [6] The latter platform was formerly on loan to the Pima Air & Space Museum. A replica of the 1031 platform is on display at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.