Tag Archives: Aviation

1917: Boeing Factory

Posted on July 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

Boeing seamstresses sewing fabric to the wing of a Model C seaplane in the company’s first factory, 1917. (source)

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1942: Battlefields

Posted on July 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Christopher R. W. Nevinson: Battlefields of Britain (1942) During the First World War, the painter and printmaker Christopher R. W. Nevinson served in Flanders and France as an ambulance driver with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was granted leave … Continue reading →

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1958: Indrani Rahman and a Douglas DC-6

Posted on June 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sunil Janah: Indrani Rahman Born in Chennai, Indrani Rahman was instilled with a sense of independence by her mother, a dancer from Petosky, Michigan who had changed her name from Esther Sherman to Ragini Devi when she’d married Ramalal Balram … Continue reading →

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1943: Hazel Ying Lee

Posted on June 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

After Hazel Ying Lee earned her pilot’s license in Portland, Oregon in 1932, she traveled to China with the hopes of joining the Chinese air force and helping to fend off growing Japanese aggression. Turned down because she was a … Continue reading →

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