Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

[MIflyer]

Yep, another inexplicably gorgeous factory worker, building Vengeance dive bombers at the Northrop factory.

 

[special ed]

Most of the ww2 photos of workers show them without safety glasses.

 

[J_P_C]

Most of the ww2 photos of workers show them without safety glasses.

i bet safety high heels wasn't required as well...

 

[GTX]

Most of the ww2 photos of workers show them without safety glasses.

I suspect most, if not all, were staged photos for the camera at the time.

 

[MIflyer]

I suspect most, if not all, were staged photos for the camera at the time.

I've often wondered if those girls came from Inglewood and San Pedro or Hollywood.

 

[Gnomey]

 

[MiTasol]

Marilyn Monroe worked in an engine factory at that time so they well may have been regular staff given a free hairstyle and makeup

 

[CATCH 22]

I've often wondered if those girls came from Inglewood and San Pedro or Hollywood.

Check this collection by Alfred T. Palmer with genuine photos from Inglewood and Fairfax - those girls/women are real workers and many of them are nice, really nice. Their hairdos are for sure not staged for the photo only.
Cheers!

 

[MIflyer]

Marilyn Monroe worked in an engine factory at that time so they well may have been regular staff given a free hairstyle and makeup

Don't know about the engine factory; there were none in SoCal that I know of. MM did work in the Radioplane factory, building target drones. Radioplane was started by the actor Reginald Denny, who was a model airplane enthusiast and who owned a hobbyshop in Hollywood. Radioplane became Northrop Ventura, an early leader in UAVs.

 

[VMTB143]

Don't know about the engine factory; there were none in SoCal that I know of. MM did work in the Radioplane factory, building target drones. Radioplane was started by the actor Reginald Denny, who was a model airplane enthusiast and who owned a hobbyshop in Hollywood. Radioplane became Northrop Ventura, an early leader in UAVs.
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Shameless plug: Here is a link to a video of WW2 drones being used on a carrier:


View: https://youtu.be/eHRIjL3-HGE

 

[GTX]

Shauna Parish, Certified Flight Instructor, now with 1500hrs up

 

[GTX]

Check this collection by Alfred T. Palmer with genuine photos from Inglewood and Fairfax - those girls/women are real workers and many of them are nice, really nice. Their hairdos are for sure not staged for the photo only.
Cheers!

I am not questioning if the women in question worked there. Rather, the comment re no safety goggles or similar prompted my comment about staged photos. If they were doing a publicity photo they may have taken them off for 'artistic' reasons given bo actual physical work was being done at the time of the photo.

 

[Barrett]

I can't find the pix, but S. Vietnam Air Marshal/President Nguyen Cao Ky and his wife had matching black flight suits. Hers was form-fitting that was
yeah....

 

[MIflyer]

Rather, the comment re no safety goggles or similar prompted my comment about staged photos.

Those kinds of accouterments were not common in WWII factories. I have seen pictures of factory workers spray painting P-39 doors with neither goggles nor even dust masks.
Note the attached photo of propellant loading of the Bell X-1 and the extensive safety precautions and careful use of personal protective equipment. And Chuck Yeager had to scrounge a football helmet!

 

[Gnomey]

 

[CATCH 22]

I am not questioning if the women in question worked there. Rather, the comment re no safety goggles or similar prompted my comment about staged photos. If they were doing a publicity photo they may have taken them off for 'artistic' reasons given bo actual physical work was being done at the time of the photo.

I wasn't answering/quoting your post but the one of MIflyer. But now after re-reading your post (I suspect most, if not all, were staged photos for the camera at the time), then again: No, not all of those photos with working women were staged - check the above mentioned photo collection.

 

[MiTasol]

Don't know about the engine factory; there were none in SoCal that I know of. MM did work in the Radioplane factory, building target drones. Radioplane was started by the actor Reginald Denny, who was a model airplane enthusiast and who owned a hobbyshop in Hollywood. Radioplane became Northrop Ventura, an early leader in UAVs.
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Thanks, the trouble with old age is sometimes you forget unimportant information (and even important but I will not admit to that).

 

[Elvis]

Don't know about the engine factory; there were none in SoCal that I know of. MM did work in the Radioplane factory, building target drones. Radioplane was started by the actor Reginald Denny, who was a model airplane enthusiast and who owned a hobbyshop in Hollywood. Radioplane became Northrop Ventura, an early leader in UAVs.

That engine looks like a shrunk down copy of the engines used in the old Aeronca C-type "Flying Bathtub" sport planes.

 

[BobB]

Don't know about the engine factory; there were none in SoCal that I know of. MM did work in the Radioplane factory, building target drones. Radioplane was started by the actor Reginald Denny, who was a model airplane enthusiast and who owned a hobbyshop in Hollywood. Radioplane became Northrop Ventura, an early leader in UAVs.
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I probably couldn't ever find it again but I've seen a story where Marilyn Monroe described the photoshoot at Radioplane. She worked doping fabric and the photographer took her out of her shop to get the photo with the propeller; the propeller being used as a photo prop. He also had her change out of her coveralls. I once found an old brochure from a supplier in Southern California that had some very attractive women, nicely dressed, posing in a warehouse. I showed it to a co-worker and said "These must be models, not real employees." He said "It's LA, all the would be actresses have jobs while they wait to be discovered."

 

[Snautzer01]

I probably couldn't ever find it again but I've seen a story where Marilyn Monroe described the photoshoot at Radioplane. She worked doping fabric and the photographer took her out of her shop to get the photo with the propeller; the propeller being used as a photo prop. I once found an old brochure from a supplier in Southern California that had some very attractive women, nicely dressed. posing in a warehouse. I showed it to a co-worker and said "These must be models, not real employees." He said "It's LA, all the would be actresses have jobs while they wait to be discovered."

Ahh miss Monroe....

Marilyn the Riveter: New photos shows a young Monroe - still Norma Jean - working at a military factory during the height of World War II

New photos released show a young Norma Jean Dougherty working in a Van Nuys, California military factory - assembling a drone plane of all things.

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