Civil Aviation Operational Material
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 65 objects relating to the operation of civilian aviation in the 20th century. There are two early experimental aero-engines built by A.B. Baird and Robert Black in 1910 and 1913 respectively; the steering gear for an early bi-plane; a Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engine, which was used to test the effects of bird strike in prototyping for Concorde; an X-ray machine; metal detector; cockpit voice recorder; flight data recorder. It also includes two wooden propellers from pre-World War II aircraft and all the flying log books of Captain Eric Starling, one of the earliest pilots working in Scotland.
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