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American Helicopter Museum Details
The Experience
The 20,000-square-foot hangar full of 70 years’ worth of vintage helicopters is a rotorwing historian’s dream; here, vintage and modern aircraft demonstrate the copter’s roles in war and rescue missions, agriculture and police surveillance. You’ll see the only V-22 tilt-rotor Osprey in the world that’s on public display, and have the chance to climb into some of the helicopters to fiddle with the dials, switches and pedals.
But it’s not all pseudo-piloting: The museum has many exhibits on how copters actually work and how they differ from fixed-wing aircraft. There are also films about the helicopter’s commercial and military purposes as well as demonstrations of what may be in the future for the rotorcraft industry.
History
The American manufacturers who pioneered the development of the helicopter – including Piasecki, Boeing-Vertol and Pitcairn – were headquartered in Philadelphia and its suburbs, making the region the cradle of the nation’s helicopter industry. Copters still fly out of the adjacent Brandywine Airport, so the hangar filled with vintage helicopters and hands-on displays showing how they work is a natural here.
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