With new base, Nazi engine heads for Weatherford
NORMAN — An engine that powered missiles for Nazi Germany before its technology lifted Americans into space is expected to travel this week from Norman to its new home in Weatherford.
The German V2 engine has spent more than two weeks at Bergey Wind Power in Norman, where the staff built a custom platform on which to place the engine at Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford. "This has to be restored because this is an artifact; this is what started our space race,” said Dan Stroud, a historian and museum board member. Stroud helped the museum acquire the V2 from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, where it had been sitting outside for years. The heavily corroded and weathered engine was transported to Wiley Post Airport about one year ago to undergo a thorough restoration. Bergey Wind Power, a company that makes wind-power engines and turbines, was chosen to design and create its metal platform.
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