Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

MIflyer · Nov 1, 2022

Shortround6 said:
It was tried during the war, while the mechanical work/standard of maintenance was excellent the electrical draw from the massed curling irons caused repeated blackouts both on the base but also the surrounding area

Hence the invention of the GPU, Girl Pulchritude Unit.

special ed · Nov 1, 2022

In "The Tibbets Story", Gen. Tibbets tells of his many flights in C-54s while preparing for the 509th's missions:

"Piloting many of these flights, in the C-54s attached to our unit, were two of the most competent multi-engine pilots I ever hope to meet. Their names were Dora Dougherty and Helen Gosnell. I liked to assign them to the shuttle flights and other missions because they were more dependable than the men. By that I mean that they always returned from a mission when they were supposed to. It was a well known trick among male pilots, and one that was often winked at by their superiors, to find something mechanically wrong with their airplanes during a trip to a base that happened to be located near a city which had interesting sights to see and an exciting nightlife to enjoy. The probability of a "malfunction" increased in almost exact proportion to the number of bars, nightclubs, and available females that a city was known to have. Crewmen have even been known to disable an airplane in some minor way as an excuse to stay overnight, or a weekend. With Dora or Helen in command of an airplane, I didn't have that problem"

CATCH 22 · Nov 1, 2022

MIflyer said:
Now, THIS is what I call a ground crew!

Of course, I'd want to check key items out very thoroughly once they were done. And I'd probably look some at the airplane, too.

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Please note that these are female Marines and the flyer is a PBJ!

CATCH 22 · Nov 1, 2022

I have a similar photo but with NAA workers and a B-25D during a flooding after heavy rains in the area of the Kansas City Factory:

Cheers!

Elvis · Nov 1, 2022

XBe02Drvr · Nov 1, 2022

Shortround6 said:
It was tried during the war, while the mechanical work/standard of maintenance was excellent the electrical draw from the massed curling irons caused repeated blackouts both on the base but also the surrounding area

And Security found it a little unsettling when expected to deep search departing Riveter Rosies at the end of each shift for "liberated" tools and aircraft parts reported to be migrating to the black market.

Gnomey · Nov 2, 2022

Elvis · Nov 2, 2022

special ed · Nov 3, 2022

Civil Air Patrol

Gnomey · Nov 4, 2022

Snautzer01 · Nov 4, 2022

quite a rare one, female in german war industry Schlosser ( craftsman skilled in operating machine tools) am Flugzeug Motor der FFS AB 32

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