Connecticut Aircraft contracted with U. S. Rubber for its two envelopes and with Pigeon Fraser for its gondolas.

Coleco ( originally Connecticut Leather Company-later the toy / video game manufacturer ), and Sikorsky Aircraft, a division of United Technologies, also had operations in West Haven.

Aircraft and personnel from Maryland ’ s 175th Fighter Group and Michigan ’ s 110th Fighter Group joined the contingent from Connecticut.

) of the U. S. Air Force Reserve in cooperation with Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association ( CAHA ); Harold Dolan, a Sikorsky Aircraft engineer and vice president / secretary of the CAHA ; Harvey Lippincott, founder, and at the time president of CAHA ; Stella Randolph ; teacher and hang-glider Andy Kosch ; and the Flugpionier-Gustav-Weisskopf-Museum in Whitehead's birthplace in Germany.

Kaman Aircraft is a U. S. aerospace company, with headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

* Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford, Connecticut

* June 1 – The United States Department of the Navy awards its first contract for an airship – the DN-1-Class Blimp – to the Connecticut Aircraft Company.

* December 24 – After taking off from Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Bridgeport, Connecticut, an Aircraft Charter Group, Inc., Learjet 35A with two people aboard disappears in fog and rain near Dorchester, New Hampshire, leading to an almost-three-year search for the missing aircraft – the longest missing-aircraft search in New Hampshires history – and legislation requiring stricter emergency locator transmitter ( ELT ) standards.

* November 13 – The longest missing-aircraft search in New Hampshires history ends after almost three years when the wreckage of an Aircraft Charter Group, Inc., Learjet 35A that had disappeared in fog and rain near Dorchester, New Hampshire, on December 24, 1996, finally is found near Smarts Mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire, about 20 miles ( 32 km ) from where it took off at Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

With headquarters at Hartford, Connecticut, the holding company controlled the stock of the Boeing Airplane Company of Seattle, the Chance Vought Corporation, the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company ( a propeller manufacturer ) and the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, an aeroengine manufacturer.

In 1915 Douglas joined the Connecticut Aircraft Company, participating in the designing of the Navy's first dirigible, the DN-1.

In 1939 United Aircraft moved Vought to Stratford, Connecticut where their Sikorsky division was located and renamed the entire division Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft.

As far as they were aware, the Connecticut Association of Real Estate Boards had not officially opposed the bill's passage or lobbied in its support.

Its founders were often away as well ; in the middle of harvesting, they left for a lecture tour through Providence, Rhode Island, New York City, and New Haven, Connecticut.

During the building boom of the 19th century in the eastern seaboard cities of Boston and New York City, for example, locally made bricks were often used in construction in preference to the brownstones of New Jersey and Connecticut for these reasons.

Eventually he got a job with a popular group known as the " Down Homers " while they were in Hartford, Connecticut.

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop.

In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony.

A few of the holders of Wentworth grants were originally from northwestern Connecticut, and some of them, including Remember Baker and Seth Warner, were relatives of Allen.

In late April, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, Allen received a message from members of an irregular Connecticut militia that they were planning to capture Fort Ticonderoga, requesting his assistance in the effort.

Ethan and Levi engaged in a war of words, many of which were printed in the Connecticut Courant, even after Levi crossed British lines.

In June 1957, Wham-O co-founder Richard Knerr decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee ( pronounced " friz '- bee "), after learning that Connecticut college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term " Frisbee " coming from the name of the Bridgeport, CT pie manufacturer Frisbie Pie Company.

Beginning in the 1790s, the ports of Stonington and New Haven, Connecticut were leaders of the American fur seal trade, which primarily entailed clubbing fur seals to death on uninhabited South Pacific islands, skinning them, and selling the hides in China.

With Sheb Wooley, The Champs, Link Wray and his Ray Men, Frankie Avalon, The Kalin Twins, and Dicky Doo & The Don ' ts, Jan & Arnie were a featured act on the Summer Dance Party that toured the US East Coast, including Pennyslvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in July 1958.

Webster helped found the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791, but by the 1830s rejected the new tone among abolitionists that emphasized Americans who tolerated slavery were themselves sinners.

The Giants were allowed to play their home games at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut in 1973 – 74, and at at Shea Stadium ( home of the Mets ) in 1975, due to the renovation of Yankee Stadium.

The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were the most active of the New England persecutors of Quakers, and the persecuting spirit was shared by the Plymouth Colony and the colonies along the Connecticut river.

In 1984 and 1985, while he was serving his sentence in Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut, American UC members launched a public-relations campaign claiming that the charges against him were unjust and politically motivated.

Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbridge, all of whom were alumni of Harvard, met in the study of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to form the school's first library.

They were both instrumental in developing the scientific curriculum at Yale, while dealing with wars, student tumults, graffiti, " irrelevance " of curricula, desperate need for endowment, and fights with the Connecticut legislature.

The colonies were: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

New Englanders themselves employed the word in a neutral sense: the " Pennamite-Yankee War ", for example, was the name given to a series of clashes in 1769 over land titles in Pennsylvania, in which the " Yankees " were the Connecticut claimants.

Performing at the recording session were Ellington on the piano and doing the narration, 16 of his orchestra members, four vocalists including the Swedish singer Alice Babs, and five choirs: the AME Mother Zion Church Choir, the choirs Of St Hilda's and St. Hugh's School, the Central Connecticut State College Singers, and the Frank Parker Singers.

There were smaller Noyesian communities in Wallingford, Connecticut ; Newark, New Jersey ; Putney and Cambridge, Vermont.

Portions of the film were shot on location in Darien, Connecticut.

Students will generally graduate from high school in the year of their 18th birthday if they were born between January 1 and August 31, but this varies by state depending on the kindergarten cut-off date, which ranges from August 1 in Missouri to January 1 in Connecticut.

In 2002, Electric Boat conducted preservation work on the world's first nuclear powered craft, USS Nautilus, preparing her for her berth at the U. S. Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut, where she now resides as a museum.

In the early 1790s he fitted a paddle wheel and steam engine to a small boat and powered it up and down the Connecticut River.

This nuclear reactor was built in Windsor, Connecticut as a prototype for the experimental USS Tullibee ( SSN-597 ) submarine, though that boat was in fact powered by a S2C reactor.

Similar programs were undertaken in Italy, Germany and Spain ; in the United States the only new mainline service was an extension of electrification over the Northeast Corridor from New Haven, Connecticut to Boston, Massachusetts, though new light rail systems, using electrically powered cars, continued to be built.

Claims for Whitehead's best-known reported manned powered flights depend largely on a newspaper article that said he achieved the feat in Connecticut in August 1901, and on an unsigned Scientific American article in September 1903 describing Whitehead making short flights low to the ground in a motorized triplane originally designed as a glider.

He and members of his 9315th U. S. Air Force Reserve Squadron were requested by the Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association ( CAHA ) to conduct research to try to learn if Whitehead had made powered flights.

According to William O ' Dwyer, the Bridgeport Daily Standard newspaper reported that photos showing Gustave Whitehead in successful powered flight did exist and were exhibited in the window of Lyon and Grumman Hardware store on Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut in October 1903.

" in the January 1988 edition of Air Enthusiast magazine took an accusatory tone toward the Smithsonian: " The evidence amassed in his favour strongly indicates that, beyond reasonable doubt, the first fully controlled, powered flight that was more than a test ' hop ', witnessed by a member of the press, took place on 14 August 1901 near Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Existing catenary wires, powered at 12 kV, 25 Hz AC, would be used on the old lines, with new high-tension catenary poles, powered at 25 kV, 60 Hz AC, and similar to the system utilized on the Northeast Corridor north of New Haven, Connecticut, would be employed west of Norristown.