A Museum Around Every Corner!
 

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.

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A couple more photo exhibits, another bend, and I find another immaculate aircraft engine, this time a J57 turbojet revealed in cutaway.

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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:

Beauty! :rock: I wish I could find treasures in our library. Actually we have a really cool library with some really cool books, but no engines. :cry: