Maurice Longo Pratt & Whitney Engines Photograph Collection
Content Description
The Maurice Longo Pratt & Whitney Engines Photograph Collection is a small collection consisting of visual materials documenting Pratt & Whitney engines from circa the 1980s. Longo collected the materials during his career as a fuel control engineer with Pratt & Whitney in the late twentieth century.
The collection includes five 8x10-inch and eighty-one 11x14-inch black-and-white photographic prints of Pratt & Whitney engines as well as one 8x10-inch print of two unidentified men with an engine. The images are all unidentified, but the larger prints are all dated 1983. In addition, there are three 8x10-inch color photographs of the U.S.S. Forrestal aircraft carrier. A business card for Longo is also present.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1980s
Creator
- Longo, Maurice J., 1940-2015 (Person)
Language of Materials
All materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research but has not been fully processed. Access to the collection may be limited or may require additional processing time. For more information contact us.
Conditions Governing Use
The Museum of Flight (TMOF) Archives is the owner of the physical materials in the archives and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from TMOF archives before any publication use. TMOF does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners. Consult repository for more details.
Biographical Note: Maurice J. Longo
Maurice J. Longo worked as a fuel control engineer with Pratt & Whitney in the late twentieth century. He was based in both East Hartford, Connecticut and West Palm Beach, Florida. He worked with Grumman F-14 Tomcats and McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagles and with the TF30 engine. He had studied mechanical engineering at Penn State University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in 1962. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 2, 1940 and died June 10, 2015.
No further information is known. Biographical sketch derived from donor information.
Extent
.3 Cubic Feet (1 oversize box (11x17x3"))
Separated Materials
The following items have been separated from the archival component of this collection and are kept in Objects storage:
- F-14 Tomcat belt and belt buckle
- Kiwi Red 75 SQN pin
- Grim Reapers Patch
- Hamilton Standard Tie Tack
- P&W Engine Tie Tack
- (2) “Thrust We Trust” J52 Stickers
- TF30-P-109RA Engine Sticker
- (2) F119 Engine Stickers
The following items have been separated from the archival component of this collection and were transferred to the Library:
- PSQ Product Support Quarterly Summer 1996
- TF30-P-7 Test Cell Troubleshooting Guide
- TF30-P-9 Test Cell Troubleshooting Guide
- TF30-P-100 Test Cell Troubleshooting Guide
- TF30-P—414/414A Test Cell Troubleshooting Guide
- TF30-P-3 Test Cell Troubleshooting Guide
- TF30-P-3,-7,-9,-100 Organizational Afterburner Troubleshooting Guide
Subject
- Forrestal (Aircraft carrier) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Maurice Longo Pratt & Whitney Engines Photograph Collection
- Status
- Completed Level 2
- Author
- Nicole Davis
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Edition statement
- 1st edition
Repository Details
Part of the The Museum of Flight Archives Repository
9404 East Marginal Way South
Seattle Washington 98108-4097
206-764-7874
curator@museumofflight.org