Aircraft Mechanic Builds Emplanage Section on Cargo Plane

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant in Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87 and carries one of the greatest human and cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. October 1942.

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Photo source: Library of Congress
Usage: Public Domain