Where do they all come from?

[Scott Rose]

F4U Corsair assembly line


F4U Corsair assembly line


F4U Corsair assembly line


P-38 Lightning assembly line


P-38 Lightning assembly line


B-29 Superfortress assembly line (Source: Boeing Archive)


B-29 Superfortress assembly line (Source: Boeing Archive)


B-29 Superfortress wing section assembly line (Source: Boeing Archive)


B-29 Superfortress final assembly (Source: Boeing Archive)

[Scott Rose]

Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Jeep

[Pat Carry]

A fantastic thread this is!

[Scott Rose]

From the Douglas Factories...

Douglas Aircraft Compnay, Inc., Santa Monica, CA. Douglas B-18 aircraft being constructed. (Source: USAF)


Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., Santa Monica, California, Douglas B-18A airplane under construction. (Source: USAF)


Douglas Skyraiders (Source: Unknown)

[Chad95XJ]

From the Douglas Factories...

Douglas Aircraft Compnay, Inc., Santa Monica, CA. Douglas B-18 aircraft being constructed. (Source: USAF)


Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., Santa Monica, California, Douglas B-18A airplane under construction. (Source: USAF)


Douglas Skyraiders (Source: Unknown)

Thanks for the Santa Monica photos. My grandfather worked there from 1940 until he got drafted in 1945. I have all of his pay stubs from there packed away.

[Chris Brame]

Never saw those B-18A shots before - thanks for posting!

[Scott Rose]

Thanks for the Santa Monica photos. My grandfather worked there from 1940 until he got drafted in 1945. I have all of his pay stubs from there packed away.

Never saw those B-18A shots before - thanks for posting!

[Scott Rose]

Female factory workers hand-painting zinc-cromate primer into the interior of a B-29 wing.
Source: duncan_D_sorderly/Reddit

Why do I get the urge to sing "Row Row Row your boat..."

[Scott Rose]

Trainee aircraft fitters working on a partly-assembled Hawker Hurricane instructional airframe, 1359M, in a hangar at
No. 2 School of Technical Training, Cosford, Shropshire, 1939.

[Chris Brame]

A couple from Chanute; sorry about the flash - hope these weren't trashed when the museum closed:

(A-17A s/n 38-347)

[Mark Allen M]

Gloster Aircraft built over 1,000 Hawker Hurricanes, delivering the last of the 2,750 it constructed in 1942. Production was then switched to Hawker Typhoons for the RAF of which it built all but 17 of the 3,317 aircraft produced.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, the firm lacked any modern designs of its own in production, but had significant expertise and production facilities available. Thus, Gloster undertook manufacture for Hawker-designed aircraft to equip the RAF on behalf of its parent company. During 1939, the company constructed 1,000 Hawker Hurricanes within the first 12 months of the conflict; Gloster delivered the last of its 2,750 Hurricanes in 1942. After ending production of the Hurricane, it was decided to manufacture the newer Hawker Typhoon in its place. Gloster proceeded to construct 3,300 in total, almost the entirety of the type.

[Scott Rose]

Source: Lawrence Scott Fisher Collection


Armstrong Whitworth Javelin production line at Bitteswell.
Source: Tony Buckley Collection


Source: Gloster Javelin Appreciation Society


Source: Chris Winfield Collection


F4U Corsairs take shape on the Vought-Sikorsky assembly line, December 23, 1942..
Source: National Museum Of Naval Aviation

[lucky52]

My question is where did all the .50 cal. machine guns end up? Did they keep them all or scrap them because they had so many?

[wendovertom]

My question is where did all the .50 cal. machine guns end up? Did they keep them all or scrap them because they had so many?

My brother's Utah Guard unit had a few.50 guns that were WWII vintage (probably not aircraft guns) when they were preparing for thier first SWA deployment - rebarreled but IIRC the rest was WWII vintage.

Tom P.

[dollar65]

All I have on this is "Vought F4U Corsair production"
I'm guessing a fuselage assembly jig

Good-Year built Fuselage section Martin B-26 Marauder.

More likely a B-29 bomb bay, upside down, if I'm not mistaken



Laurent