Airplane Collection (page 8)

Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Fitting the tail of a transport plane to the wing... Consolidated Aircraft... Fort Worth, TX, 1942
Fitting the tail of a transport plane to the wing center section in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs

Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87... Consolidated Aircraft Corp... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
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

Navy N2S primary land planes at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Navy N2S primary land planes at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Assembling Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Assembling Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

This sailor mechanic is inspecting a PBY plane at the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
This sailor mechanic is inspecting a PBY plane at the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas. The ship had been reconditioned by the Civil Service employees at the Assembly

Its an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Its an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas

Hes like to use that gun on the Axis, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Hes like to use that gun on the Axis. After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma... Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, TX, 1942
Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma, used to do office work. Removing paper from pilots window(?), Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Ens[ign] Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Ens[ign] Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Servicing an A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Servicing an A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va

Av. Cadet Thanas at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Av. Cadet Thanas at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Loading new transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

With a womans determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
With a womans determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl

Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Boy building a model airplane while other children look on, FSA labor camp, Robstown, Tex. 1942
Boy building a model airplane while other children look on, FSA [Farm Security Administration] labor camp, Robstown, Texas

Boy building a model airplane as girl watches, FSA... camp, Robstown, Tex. 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
[Boy] building a model airplane [as girl watches], FSA [Farm Security Administration] camp, Robstown, Texas

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run, between 1941 and 1945. Creator: Howard Hollem
Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run. Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan

Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1943. Creator: John Collier
Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine. Flying field from the hangar. Coastal Patrol #20

Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S. C. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated... Inglewood, Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc. plant in Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc. plant in Calif

Lowering an engine in place in assembling... Consolidated Aircraft Corp... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Lowering an engine in place in assembling a transport plane in a Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport... Consolidated Aircraft... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
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

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator... Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Aviation cadets in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Aviation cadets in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil... Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Low flying planes from which dust or insecticide is spread... Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. 1942
Low flying planes from which dust or insecticide is spread onto crops by men who " follow the season" up the east coast, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J

STS-45 Landing, Florida, USA, 1992. Creator: NASA
STS-45 Landing, Florida, USA, 1992. As the sun rises the morning of April 2, it casts a rosy glow over a steller performer, the orbiter Atlantis parked on Runway 33 of the Shuttle Landing Facility

Test pilot and engineer, USA, 1920. Creator: Unknown
Test pilot and engineer, USA, 1920. Double the pilots double the trouble. Goggles at the ready, this test pilot and engineer conducted research business high above the Langley Research Center in

Paresev 1-A and tow plane with crew and pilot, USA, 1962. Creator: NASA
Paresev 1-A and tow plane with crew and pilot, USA, 1962. With the Paresev 1-A (Paraglider Research Vehicle) and the 450-hp Stearman Sport biplane as a backdrop the pilot

Key members of the XS 1 research team, USA, January 1948. Creator: Unknown
Key members of the XS 1 research team, USA, January 1948. National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics Muroc Flight Test Unit XS-1 Team members and USAF pilots (L-R): Joseph Vensel

Perseus B parked on ramp, USA, September 1999. Creator: NASA
Perseus B parked on ramp, USA, September 1999. The long, slender wing of the Perseus B remotely piloted research aircraft can be clearly seen in this photo

NASA F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft, 1973. Creator: NASA
NASA F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft, 1973. A Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A)

STS-56 Landing, Florida, USA, 1993. Creator: NASA
STS-56 Landing, Florida, USA, 1993. A four-million-mile journey draws to a flawless ending as the orbiter Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Centers Shuttle Landing Facility, Runway 33

STS-72 Landing, Florida, USA, 1996. Creator: NASA
STS-72 Landing, Florida, USA, 1996. The Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour and its crew of six glide in to Runway 15 at Kennedy Space Centers Shuttle Landing Facility after spending nine days in space

Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE), USA, 1997. Creator: NASA
Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE), USA, 1997. A NASA SR-71 successfully completed its first flight October 31, 1997 as part of the NASA/Rocketdyne/Lockheed Martin Linear Aerospike SR-71

Jimmy Doolittle with Curtiss R3C racer, c1925. Creator: Unknown
Jimmy Doolittle with Curtiss R3C racer, c1925. The R3C was an American racing aircraft, made in landplane and floatplane form

X-36 on ramp, USA, 1997. Creator: NASA
X-36 on ramp, USA, 1997. NASA Dryden Flight Fesearch Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California hosted the X-36 program, as well as providing range support for the flight tests

Scott Crossfield Mach 2 flight. Creator: Unknown
Scott Crossfield after the first mach 2 flight, USA, November 20, 1953. Naval officer and test pilot Scott Crossfield piloted the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket to Mach 2, or more than 1

Paresev 1-A on lakebed with tow plane, USA, 1962. Creator: NASA
Paresev 1-A on lakebed with tow plane, USA, 1962. The Paresev 1-A (Paraglider Research Vehicle) and the tow airplane, 450-hp Stearman Sport biplane, sitting on Rogers dry lakebed, Edwards

STS-7 landing, California, USA, June 24, 1983. Creator: NASA
STS-7 landing, California, USA, June 24, 1983. Space Shuttle Challengers STS-7 mission lands at Edwards Air Force Base

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