History of Aeromarine-Klemm Aircraft in Keyport, NJ

[@oddshot60]

Thank you so much for this wonderful film. From the 1930's until the 1970's my family lived in the Lockport section of Keyport. I grew up in a house on Pine Street, less than 1/4 mile from the Aeromarine Plant. @8:42 Pine Street is at the left of this photograph and the house I grew up in is just at the edge of photo on the right side of the street. Living so close to an airplane factory my father and his brothers were wild about airplanes. My Uncle George was a paratrooper in WW2 and owned his own private plane after the war. They all built and flew model airplanes ... and passed along the love of aircraft to me. In the 1960's my Dad taught me to drive on the streets and part of the old runway found at the old Aeromarine.

[@oddshot60]

This is a terrific film about an important, but forgotten part of aeronautic history. You did a GREAT job but missed a couple important details. The aeromarine did a lot of important research and development in the shape of the hulls and pontoons of seaplanes and the "step" that is so necessary to getting the seaplane to rise off the water. @11:04 you can see the names Uppercu - Burnelli painted on the roof of the main building. Vincent Burnelli was a designer/engineer who pioneered the idea that the as much of the aircraft as possible, especially the fuselage, should be shaped to create "lift". He called his designs "lifting bodies" and elements of his work can be seen in aircraft such as the Space Shuttle and the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter. One of his early lifting body aircraft can be seen from @15:43 - 15-47. Another of his designs, the Burnelli CBY-3, competed against the Douglas DC-3 to become the US Army Air Force's heavy cargo and troop carrier aircraft ... some say that political shenanigans made FDR reject the military's favorable rating of the Burnelli. A restored Burnelli CBY-3 can be found in the air museum in Windsor Locks, Conn. A search of the internet will yield more of this story and many more photos.

[@jkobis]

Great video. I was wondering what that large hotel like building is near the entrance of the factory? I also noticed many pieces of tile on the beach near the building I am talking about.

[@Kaboom911]

Thanks for sharing and teaching us all some history

[@red_ford23]

My surname is Klemm. My uncles were all Annapolis Navy officers. That probably isn't a coincidence in their commissions. I knew a lot about Aeromarine but somehow didn't know the Langley 22 part. Thanks.

[@FunkyMarcel]

Aeromarine had a commuter flight from 42nd St, NYC at the Hudson River to Long Beach Long Island,,1923/4 ----- 23minute flight..20 dollar fare....the name of the plane was The Ambassador,,,,,,