A Museum Around Every Corner!

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.

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

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.

Sailor Steve · 06-20-11, 08:41 PM

Beauty!

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

06-20-11, 08:00 PM	#1
Subnuts The Old Man Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,658 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	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. A couple more photo exhibits, another bend, and I find another immaculate aircraft engine, this time a J57 turbojet revealed in cutaway. 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. __________________ My Amazon.com reviews

06-20-11, 08:41 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Beauty! I wish I could find treasures in our library. Actually we have a really cool library with some really cool books, but no engines. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo