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23-594: Project Cyclone was a partnership with Reeves Instrument Corporation . There were two sister projects: Project Whirlwind, which was a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build a digital computer (resulting in the Whirlwind I ), and Project Typhoon, which was a partnership to build an analog computer with RCA. The project led to the development of the original Reeves Electronic Analog Computer (or "REAC"), as well as subsequent models. Under

46-474: A guided missile simulator and the operation of a simulation laboratory [for] research and development on guided missile simulation" and "development and construction of a rapid and precise automatic analog computer suitable for detailed simulation of guided missiles". The contract's Task Order III on June 12, 1947, required Reeves provide "a simulation laboratory, the Project Cyclone Laboratory, which

69-588: A shopping mall. Aline Rhonie Hofheimer (1909–1963), painted a 126-foot fresco representing aviation history in Roosevelt Field, Long Island. It has since been relocated to the Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in Queens, NY. Manhattan -based real estate company Webb and Knapp gained a controlling interest in the airfield in 1950 and later built light factories on the former Unit 2. Currently its site

92-561: A wholly owned subsidiary of … Claude Neon , Inc." on April 15, 1955, when the former merged into Dynamics Corporation of America ; and on January 20, 1956, the other Reeves division of Neon—Reeves-Ely Laboratories, Inc.--also merged into Dynamics. In 1958, RICO moved production to its Roosevelt Field plant on East Gate Blvd in Garden City, New York . In the early 1960s, the Reeves AN/MSQ-35 Bomb Scoring Central

115-819: The Applied Physics Laboratory and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory . The proceedings of these symposia were published under the title "Project Cyclone Symposium on REAC Techniques". Reeves Instrument Corporation Reeves Instrument Corporation (RICO) was a Cold War manufacturer of computer and radar systems for the United States . The corporation was the Project Cyclone laboratory operator for simulation of guided missiles, and RICO developed several Strategic Air Command combination (radar/computer/communications) systems ("Q" systems). Reeves

138-584: The Cold War , Reeves developed and tested the AN/USQ-24 ;[ sic ] [AN/MSQ-2A] Bomb Scoring Central, a variant of the MSQ-2 Close Support Control Set developed by Rome Air Development Center . Bomb Scoring Centrals by RICO were used for Radar Bomb Scoring (RBS), as well as Korean War ground-directed bombing (GDB) controlled by TADPOLE sites. "Reeves Instrument Corporation [was]

161-710: The Long Island Motor Parkway , which ran north of and parallel to Stewart Avenue, became the Old Westbury Golf Course, while the area to the east of the golf course was used as the Meadow Brook Polo Field. Both areas are now completely developed. In pursuit of the Orteig Prize , René Fonck attempted to take off the Sikorsky S-35 from Roosevelt Field's long runway on September 21, 1926, but

184-617: The U.S. Air Service in Louisiana. On September 24, 1918, the Army dedicated the eastern portion of Hazelhurst Field No. 1 as Roosevelt Field . Air Service units that assigned to Hazelhurst Field were: On the morning of 5 July 1919, the British R34 (airship) landed after having crossed the Atlantic as the first aircraft to cross in the east–west direction. It later returned to Britain, being

207-502: The 1950s the project had expanded such that it required three separate computer laboratories. The largest Project Cyclone lab contained 13 full REAC machines. Project Cyclone, jointly with Reeves, was the organizer of multiple symposiums on analog computers . The first one was held in March 1951 in NYC, and was attended by 141 visitors from elite engineering organizations all over the world, such as

230-555: The Hempstead branch line of the Long Island Rail Road was acquired for expansion, becoming Camp Mills along Clinton Road and Hazelhurst Aviation Field No. 2 to the east, part of the massive Air Service Aviation Concentration Center. Hazelhurst Field No. 2 was renamed Mitchel Field on July 16, 1918, to commemorate John Purroy Mitchel , the former mayor of New York killed in a flying accident on July 6, 1918, while training with

253-577: The aircraft was severely overweight and stressed the auxiliary landing gear mounted to help support the load, losing a wheel. Unable to gain lift speed, the plane cartwheeled off the end of the bluff and burst into flames, killing two of its crew. The following May, operating from a hangar at Curtiss Field, Charles Lindbergh used the Roosevelt Field runway for the takeoff of the Spirit of St. Louis on his flight to Paris. Both fields were bought in 1929 by Roosevelt Field, Inc. The western field, called "Unit 2", and

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276-560: The auspices of Project Cyclone, Reeves personnel would also be responsible for operating competitors' hardware in the lab, such as the ELECOM 100 , produced by Electronic Computer Corporation . This was generally done to test the results of the Reeves-built machines in the lab. The offices of the project were originally located on the premises of Reeves Instrument Corporation in New York , but by

299-470: The first aircraft to complete an Atlantic crossing in both directions. After the armistice , the Air Service authorized several companies to operate from the fields but maintained control until July 1, 1920, at which time the government sold its buildings and improvements and relinquished control of the property. Once in civilian hands, the owners sold portions along the southern edge of the field and split

322-629: The plain into two large fields. The U.S. Army Signal Corps established the Signal Corps Aviation Station, Mineola , on the west field in July 1916, as a pilot training school for members of the National Guard . When the U.S. entered the war in April 1917, the entire field was taken over and renamed Hazelhurst Field after Leighton Wilson Hazelhurst Jr. Hazelhurst was a native of Georgia and

345-414: The remainder of the property into two separate areas. Curtiss Field , a 300-acre airport on the original site of Hazelhurst Field, occupied half of the western portion along Clinton Road. Roosevelt Field occupied the remainder, consisting of seven hangars and a large parking ramp adjacent to Curtiss Field, and an east–west packed clay runway 5000 feet in length on the bluff. The area between Curtiss Field and

368-543: The runway atop the bluff, called "Unit 1", were connected by a broad earthen taxi ramp and the consolidated property was named Roosevelt Field. Unit 1 was sold in 1936 and became the Roosevelt Raceway , while Unit 2 continued to operate as an aviation center under the name Roosevelt Field. At its peak in the 1930s, it was America's busiest civilian airfield. Roosevelt Field was used by the Navy and Army during World War II. After

391-450: The war, Roosevelt Field reverted to operation as a commercial airport until it was acquired by real estate developers in 1950. The field closed on May 31, 1951. The eastern field first became an industrial park but is now largely retail shopping, including the Mall at The Source on the site of the former runway, and townhouses, while the site of the original flying field in 1911–1916 has become

414-556: Was a graduate of the United States Military Academy . He reported for aeronautical duty at the Signal Corps Aviation School, Augusta, Georgia, on 2 March 1912. On 11 June 1912, while making a flight at College Park, Maryland, as a passenger in an airplane undergoing acceptance tests, the plane crashed to the ground and both the pilot and Lt. Hazelhurst were killed. An adjacent tract of land south of

437-696: Was being used for GDB. Roosevelt Field, New York Roosevelt Field is a former airport, located in Westbury, Long Island, New York. Originally called the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome, or sometimes Hempstead Plains field or the Garden City Aerodrome, it was a training field (Hazelhurst Field) for the Air Service, United States Army during World War I . In 1919, it was renamed in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt 's son, Quentin , who

460-541: Was killed in air combat during World War I . Roosevelt Field was the takeoff point for many historic flights in the early history of aviation , including Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo transatlantic flight . It was also used by other pioneering aviators, including Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post . The Hempstead Plains Aerodrome originally encompassed 900 to 1,000 acres (405 ha) east of and abutting Clinton Road, south of and adjacent to Old Country Road, and west of Merrick Avenue. A bluff 15 feet in elevation divided

483-505: Was originally "Hudson American…just a little bit before the end of D-Day " and in 1946 Reeves Sound Laboratory , a division of Reeves-Ely Laboratories (R.E.L.), was researching "advance gunfire control systems and computers; radar and tracking systems; guided missile controls; aircraft control instruments… (Research initiated 1942.)" RICO was awarded the Department of the Navy contract No. N60ori-128 on June 10, 1946, for "development of

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506-669: Was produced for Strategic Air Command RBS and in 1965, the Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central was built for Vietnam War GDB. Reeves also produced a 1967 transportable variant of the vacuum tube AN/MSQ-77, and one of the AN/TSQ-81 variants was destroyed after the Battle of Lima Site 85 in Laos. By the end of the war the vacuum-tube Reeves AN/TSQ-96 Bomb Directing Central with a solid state Univac 1219 B ballistic computer

529-551: Was to be operated by the Reeves Analysis and Computer Group." Reeves built the lab's original Reeves Electronic Analog Computers in 1947, and a new computing lab of REACs was contracted under Task Order III in 1949. "The guided missile simulator of Task Order II was completed in early 1949 [with a] satisfactory demonstration in February 1949 of the guided missile simulator solving a three-dimensional guided missile problem". Early in

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