जनरल एविएशन के इतिहास में इस भयानक अंतर्दृष्टि की जाँच करें!
Serendipity एविएशन वीक के 100 साल पुरालेख में अद्भुत खोजों तक ले जा सकता. हमारे इंटर्न जो जाँच में से एक था 400,000 संग्रह में स्कैन किए गए पृष्ठों मुझे राइट-मार्टिन एयरक्राफ्ट कॉर्प के लिए एक विज्ञापन के बारे में प्रश्न पूछा. से एक मुद्दा में 1917.
The two-page spread ad featured a photo of Wright-Martin’s New Brunswick, N.J., aircraft factory. For nearly eight years in the 1990s, I’d lived in that city, home to Rutgers University and Johnson & Johnson.
I could tell the approximate location from the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks in the lower right corner of the photo (above). But until that day, I’d never had a hint that the facility turned out military aircraft engines during World War I.
The buildings looked familiar, but the old city has many factory buildings with a similar appearance.
A call to the New Brunswick Free Public Library helped fill in the holes. After the war ended, government aircraft orders to Wright-Martin fell sharply, and the company could no longer justify the cavernous factory on Jersey Avenue. द्वारा 1922, International Motors had taken over the facility. Later, Simplex Automobiles and Mack Trucks occupied the facility, library director Bob Belvin said in an email.
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इस लेख मूलतः पर तैनात AviationWeek.com.