{"id":3789,"date":"2015-03-20T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2015-03-20T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:00:32","slug":"flying-into-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2015\/03\/20\/flying-into-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying into Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2015\/03\/Optimized-IMG_20150319_142825285.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1742 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2015\/03\/Optimized-IMG_20150319_142825285-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Optimized-IMG_20150319_142825285\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Welcome Spring! The Lichtenberger Engineering Library exhibit is now highlighting the\u00a0dream of flight. The idea was inspired by Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s last film <em>The Wind Rises. <\/em>The film is a\u00a0look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II,\u00a0and his love of flight.<\/p>\n<p>The fascinating exhibit items including aircraft models, a prototype helmet, an instrument panel, challenge coins, and patches are borrowed from the Operator Performance Laboratory. The Operator Performance Laboratory, a unit of the University of Iowa Center for Computer\u2013Aided Design, is located at the Iowa City Municipal Airport. The laboratory, housed in a hangar, holds three aircraft and two simulators, and mainly conducts research on human-in-the-loop and intelligent autonomous systems. Believe it or not, when visiting the laboratory, we saw a big stuffed bear as a \u201cpilot\u201d in the cockpit of Beechcraft A-36 Bonanza!<\/p>\n<p>The old-looking instrument panel in the exhibit case is from the rear cockpit of an Aero Vodochody L-29 Delfin. The Aero L-29 Delfin (dolphin), NATO designation Maya, is a military trainer aircraft. It was firstly designed and built by Aero Vodochody for the Czechoslovakian Air Force and Soviet Air Force. The laboratory\u2019s L-29 can climb at the rate of 14 m\/s (2,800 ft\/min). The maximum speed of the aircraft is 820 km\/h (510 mph). The range and service ceiling are 900 km (560 mi) and 11,500 m (37,700 ft).<\/p>\n<p>For those who are passionate about flight, please check out related books and DVDs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/UIEnginLib\/\">https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/UIEnginLib\/<\/a> ) from the Engineering Library. The library also holds non-technical books on aviation such as <em>The Wright Brothers and the birth of aviation, <\/em>and <em>Women and flight: portraits of contemporary women pilots<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Come and see the exhibit to find more!<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>Operator Performance Laboratory website. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/hfdata.opl.uiowa.edu\/opl\/\">https:\/\/hfdata.opl.uiowa.edu\/opl\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aero L-29 Delfin. Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-today.com\/aircraft\/l29_delfin.htm\">http:\/\/www.military-today.com\/aircraft\/l29_delfin.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research Aircraft Specification Sheet. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/hfdata.opl.uiowa.edu\/opl\/?q=l29\">https:\/\/hfdata.opl.uiowa.edu\/opl\/?q=l29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Spring! The Lichtenberger Engineering Library exhibit is now highlighting the&nbsp;dream of flight. The idea was inspired by Hayao Miyazaki&rsquo;s last film The Wind Rises. The film is a&nbsp;look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}