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With reading and lecture topics for the week of January 18 covering
airplane systems, including engines, we decided to get a little more
"hands-on" experience. The University of Alaska Southeast Marine Technology
Center has this great cutaway radial engine in the front lobby.
Cylinders, exhaust manifolds, magnetos, pushrods, every engine part you
could think of has been painstakingly and neatly cross sectioned on this engine.
Alaska Airlines donated this masterpiece to the Juneau-Douglas High School in 1969.
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Instructor Chuck Craig
shows Joe a disemboweled crankshaft. The engine classroom is a fascinating
place, with pistons, valves, crankshafts and other engine parts
on display for inspection and handling. There was even a 2 foot diameter
piston from an Alaska State Ferry engine in the room for scale!
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With the understanding gained here in the engine shop, the textbook diagrams and discussions about engines will be much easier to comprehend!
Many thanks to Chuck Craig for his helpful tour of his facility.
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Contact: Fritz Funk (fritzf@alaska.net)