Long Beach CA- As this swift and deadly attack bomber rolled off production lines of Douglas Aircraft Companys blackout plant here, the first for 1942, Douglas employees tagged it: With New Years greetings to Emperor Hirohito from 130,000,000...
Months ahead of schedule, the Vega Aircraft Corporation plant in Burbank CA is now in full mass production of B-17 Flying Fortresses for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Vega was the first to make deliveries of these heavy bombers under a pooled...
Text from back of image: "Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35...
The Air Force H-12, new multi-purpose, multi-passenger helicopter designed and produced by Bell Aircraft Corporation, flies over the Horseshoe (Canadian) cataract at Niagara Falls. This is one of the rare clear views of the entire brink of the...
Santa Monica CA- Along brilliantly lit assembly lines of Douglas Aircraft Companys plant here, night crews are rushing production of DB-7B attackers bombers, recently acclaimed as night fighters in the defense of blacked out Britain. Equipped with...
This unusual view of the ice bridge at Niagara Falls was obtained from a Bell Aircraft helicopter hovering near the brink of the Horseshoe Falls. Ice covered rocks below the American Falls add an artistic touch and the Cave of the Winds (right)...
Santa Monica CA- A place of honor in democracys hall of fame foes to this type of Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber after the historic battle of the Coral Sea. In a special message to the employees of Douglas Aircraft Company, Rear Admiral John H....
Santa Monica CA- Employees of Douglas Aircraft Companys plant here studies one of many material conservation posters erected throughout the shop. That they are taking the lesson to heart is evidenced by tremendous reductions in the percentage of...
There are 887 armor piercing 20 mm cannon shells visible in this picture, hardly more than one third the completely load for the three pods (under Navy A4 jet) of the HIPEG gun system developed by Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division, Culver...
Resembling a horde of huge insets, these Bell H-13D helicopters are lined up at the Niagara Fall Municipal Airport prior to beginning the long journey to Korea where they are urgently needed by the Army Field Forces. Helicopters of this and other...
This is how the mammoth, 213,000 pound Northrop Flying Wing YB-49 the worlds largest and longest ranging jet bomber appeared a few minutes after takeoff at Muroc Air Force Base for its first transcontinental mission, a flight to Washington D.C....
