{"id":1738,"date":"2015-03-20T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2015-03-20T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T15:54:05","slug":"flying-into-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/flying-into-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying into Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\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 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

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

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

For those who are passionate about flight, please check out related books and DVDs (https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/UIEnginLib\/<\/a> ) from the Engineering Library. The library also holds non-technical books on aviation such as The Wright Brothers and the birth of aviation, <\/em>and Women and flight: portraits of contemporary women pilots<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Come and see the exhibit to find more!<\/p>\n

References<\/p>\n

Operator Performance Laboratory website. Retrieved from https:\/\/hfdata.opl.uiowa.edu\/opl\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Aero L-29 Delfin. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.military-today.com\/aircraft\/l29_delfin.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Aircraft Specification Sheet. Retrieved from https:\/\/hfdata.opl.uiowa.edu\/opl\/?q=l29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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