Aircraft Assembly and Production

Historic black and white photos capturing aircraft assembly lines in factories, showcasing workers and various aircraft models during construction.

italy, friuli venezia giulia, monfalcone, dockyard, 1920-1930
italy, friuli venezia giulia, monfalcone, dockyard, 1920-1930
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. WAAF fabric workers and workshop hands at a Coastal Command Maintenance Unit at ,Gosport, Hampshire, clean and paint an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V of No. 51 Squadron RAF.
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97D - 97D US Aircraft Factories. February 17, 1941. (Photo by Acme Newspictures, Inc.).
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British Aircraft Production in the First World War Handley Page 0/400 bomber under construction. Serial number F5349. Ford Junction, Sussex.
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Various Components of Goodyear Inflatable Airplane in Full Scale Tunnel building 643 Test 238
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Rembang, Blora and Tjepoe. The engine of an M3A1 stuart light tank is overhauled. January 10, 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard opened in Zaandam new factory "Indeco Coignet NV", the prince looks at the model of the houses. September 28, 1964. Noord-Holland, Zaandam, Zaanstad
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Mechanics work on a...
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Installing Wing-Flow Method Testing Device
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Vertical Hangar - A tractor pushed the convair into position in its unique hangar at brown field naval auxilliary air station near San Diego, California. Not the hangar's triple-deck work platform which permits easy access to all parts of the plane.The convair XFY-1, World's first vertical take-off fighter, is housed in the smalled hangar ever designed for, a navy plane.The 26ft tepee-shaped hangar is built of wood and steel and covered with yellow fire-resistant fibreglass. March 7, 1955. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Loading payload trunnion into the payload canister fitting in the O&C high bay, March 6, 1984
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Removing contaminated crucible , Ordnance industry, Armories, Hazardous wastes, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) engineers assembled the Altitude Wind Tunnels (AWT) large wooden drive fan inside the hangar at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. When it was built at the in the early 1940s the AWT was among the most complex test facilities ever designed. It was the first wind tunnel capable of operating full-scale engines under realistic flight conditions. This simulation included the reduction of air temperature, a decrease in air pressure, and the creation of an airstream velocity of up to 500 miles per hour. The AWT was constructed in 1942 and 1943. This photograph shows NACA engineers Lou Hermann and Jack Aust assembling the tunnels drive fan inside the hangar. The 12-bladed, 31-foot-diameter spruce wood fan would soon be installed inside the wind tunnel to create the high-speed airflow. This massive propeller was designed and constructed by the engine lab's design team at Langley Field. John Breisch, a Langley technician with several ye
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Removing contaminated crucible , Ordnance industry, Armories, Hazardous wastes, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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B-25 Bomber Planes Being Hauled along Outdoor Assembly Line by Tractor, North American Aviation, Inc., Kansas City, Kansas, USA, Alfred T. Palmer for Office of War Information, October 1942
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Anefo photo collection. Scheveningen repair on coastal works. April 20, 1953. Scheveningen, South Holland
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Workers Assembling B-25 Bombers, North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kansas, USA, Alfred T. Palmer for Office of War Information, October 1942
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Work on deck of the submarine Hr.Ms. Tiger shark (1972-1995).
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Aircraft manufacturing at a US aircraft factory
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Building Mosquito Aircraft at the De Havilland Factory in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 1943 Fitters making adjustments to the tailplane of Mosquito HJ728 at Hatfield.
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The Soviet Woman Takes Men's Professions -- Sotnikova, welder of the Uritzki plant at Briansk (Voronezh province) at work. July 22, 1935.
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Aircraft production - USSR and NATO. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 1984. PHOTO No. 113, page 98, bottom left. Country: Unknown