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Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs man from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Consolidated transport planes being loaded, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Installing oxygen flask racks above the flight deck of a C-87 transport at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Lowering an engine in place in assembling a C-87 transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
A mating operation on a transport plane just before it comes to the pre-assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Lowering an engine in place in assembling a transport plane in a Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end of the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008

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Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

31 older comments, and then…
abbyladybug said:
This is incredible. The quality is so good that it's hard to believe it's such an old image. -- Seen in a discussion of Raleigh Social Group. (?)
will i am said:
Its all in the scanning, I believe.
Screwed by Yahoo said:
This is awesome. My grandmother worked at Douglas during the war effort, doing wiring on aircraft. I'll have to show her these.
Zeb Andrews said:
Yeah it is easy to forget just how good film was/is. Amazing that something 65 years old can still deliver such a superb image.
dusqweeze said:
how about that safety wiring?

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Allison Marchant said:
what a glamour-puss! dig that neatened coif and those red fingernails.

Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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John Hinton said:
Is this the final paint color? Or just some kind of primer kote?
enfield249 said:
No, it's a zinc dichromate primer. On the interiors of it was often a pea green color. Quite toxic I think , but good a protecting the metal.
kirktalon said:
This series of pictures are B-24 Bombers and I think at this point in the process, we are seeing the final color of that front cowling as it is called. Lots of these planes went out the door with bare metal on the exterior parts. I could be wrong.
Pete Mauss said:
Greenhorns: In all actuality, WWII planes' paint jobs final touch were often applied with "Kilroy was here," or some such personalized, decompensating brush stroke. 10-4, over and out. Pete Moss musicians, please to be making the noises, now.
M M said:
Airplane Engines now replaced by Jet Engines..the latest news has been about "missing parts"..or installing "broken" parts..//??//War&Peace.