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Cessna 550B Citation Bravo (cn 550-0930) Aeroporto Diomício Freitas - Criciúma/Forquilhinha (CCM / SBCM), Brazil
August 1983. A view looking eastwards towards the Little Orm in Llandudno in North Wales. It was a misty morning that day and it can be seen shrouding the seaward side of the Orm. Plenty of cars of the early 80s to be seen here.
Kansas Cosmosphere
The Soviet Union's long and distinguished road into space began humbly with this small piece of hardware.
This is a working model of the first Soviet liquid-fueled rocket engine-the ORM-1. Designed by Soviet rocket genius Valentin Glushko, the engine was first fired in 1931 and produced more than 40 pounds of thrust.
In 1933 Glushko's brilliance with rocket engines was teamed with the extraordinary engineering and leadership skills of Sergei Korolëv to build and launch the first Soviet liquid-fueled rocket the GIRD-X. Thus began one of the most successful engineering relationships of the 20th century.
Korolëv, who would later lead the entire Soviet space effort, relied upon Glushko's rocket engine design expertise for the next three decades. With Glushko as his deputy, Korolëv oversaw the evolution of the Soviet liquid-fueled rocket and achieved a level of success that would not be matched by the United States for decades.
This working model of the ORM-1 rocket engine resided in the office of the engine's designer, Valentin Glushko, for many years. It is believed to be one of the only remaining examples of the first Soviet liquid- fueled engine.
In 1972 Glushko presented the unit to Boris Chertok on his 60th birthday as a tribute to Chertok's important contributions to the Soviet space effort. Chertok was a leading member of Korolëv’s design group.
In 1996 the Cosmosphere acquired this important artifact from the family of Boris Chertok.
The Ohio Railway Museum, located in the Columbus suburb of Worthington, was at one time the premier railroad museum of the Midwest. Started in 1948, ORM grew quickly and by 1960 it rostered a number of beautifully restored interurban cars, electric locomotives and streetcars, plus a running Erie Railroad motor car and two operating steam locomotives (Norfolk & Western 4-6-2 578 was steamed up nearly every Sunday afternoon, pulling three matching heavyweights over the museum’s 1.5 miles of track – the former Columbus, Delaware & Marion Electric). ORM’s first thirty years were very successful, but the past forty-five years have been challenging, to say the least. The story is complex, but poor decisions in the 1970s and 1980s, plus a lack of maintenance, has left the collection in disrepair. Today, as the ORM celebrates its 75th year, there is a small but dedicated group of volunteers that are diligently working to right the wrongs of the past. An interurban car, former Ohio Public Service Company 64 (G. C. Kuhlman, 1924) returned to operation a few years ago, and there is also a 65-ton GE in service. An original Columbus streetcar, 703, is under restoration where the ORM carbarn used to stand. There is a lot of work to do, and the volunteers have an uphill battle, but judging by the people I met during my visit, they will get there.