Sujet

Union Type 1-6, In-line 6 Engine, ca. 1917. Creator: Union Gas Engine Company.

Légende

The Union Gas Engine Company of Oakland, California began producing marine engines in 1885, and started experimental construction of an aircraft engine in 1915. In 1917, under Army and Navy supervision, that engine, with a pusher propeller, was the first to pass the U.S. government 50-hour test, which consisted of eight full throttle, six hour runs on consecutive days, followed by a tilting test. Union engines were built primarily for use in lighter-than-air craft. A Union engine of this type powered a non-stop record 1,760 km (1,100 mile) flight of 25 hours from New York to Newfoundland on the U.S.N. Airship C-5 in 1919, an apparent trial for a later unaccomplished trans-Atlantic flight.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A88_006

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

89,0Mo (2,7Mo) / 55,9cm x 39,9cm / 6600 x 4714 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation technology education flight color war century engine aviation first world war concept air Transport Colour Smithsonian Institution World War I WWI rotary engine World War One National Air and Space Museum Educational Institution 1910s 20th century air and space museum airship dirigible 1st World War propulsion reciprocating motion scientific institution WW1 object Heritage Art NASM PROPULSION-Reciprocating & Rotary Union Gas Engine Company Steel Aluminum Paint Ceramic Rubber Textile Preservative coating