Subnuts
06-20-11, 08:00 PM
I was visiting the library in East Hartford today, which boasts having an "aviation museum" I'd never actually managed to find. Turns out it's on the last floor, but I show up, and the lights are off. I flip on the light switch, see nothing but a few photo exhibits, go around the bend, and find a beautifully restored R-1830 Twin Wasp radial engine.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/5854673736_c33dce28ea_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27417638@N07/5854673736/)
A couple more photo exhibits, another bend, and I find another immaculate aircraft engine, this time a J57 turbojet revealed in cutaway.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/5855142264_897c1055b1_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27417638@N07/5855142264/)
Both of these engines are in better conditions than the same types displayed at the New England Air Museum, but it looks like nobody even knew they were there. I find it both fascinating, and a little odd, that Connecticut is so proud of it's aviation heritage that it displays jet engines in it's public libraries. :rotfl2:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/5854673736_c33dce28ea_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27417638@N07/5854673736/)
A couple more photo exhibits, another bend, and I find another immaculate aircraft engine, this time a J57 turbojet revealed in cutaway.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/5855142264_897c1055b1_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27417638@N07/5855142264/)
Both of these engines are in better conditions than the same types displayed at the New England Air Museum, but it looks like nobody even knew they were there. I find it both fascinating, and a little odd, that Connecticut is so proud of it's aviation heritage that it displays jet engines in it's public libraries. :rotfl2: