The Cradle of Aviation Museum, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics LI Section & the IEEE Long Island Section invite you to join us as we celebrate the First Blind Flight.

On September 24, 1929, U.S. Army Air Corps pilot, Lt. James Doolittle, took off from Mitchel Field in a specially instrumented Army Air Corp NY-2 Husky aircraft and landed after a fifteen minute, 20 mile flight, without ever seeing the ground.

The achievement of the First Blind Flight and Landing was the result of cooperative effort involving the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, the U.S. Army Air Corps, the Department of Commerce, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Kollsman Instrument Company and the Radio Frequency Laboratories.

The milestone plaque will be installed in the Mitchel Field Flight Safety exhibit at the Cradle just a few hundred feet from where the flight’s takeoff and landing originated.