Goodyear Aircraft B-26 Wing Assembly Line

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:54 am

I would assume they'd just build new planes..hardly made sense to retrofit old aircraft when they were cranking out new ones in such numbers. The wings probably came from a "used" bird that was parted out.

SN

planeoldsteve · **Posted:** Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:25 pm

Steve Nelson wrote:

I would assume they'd just build new planes..hardly made sense to retrofit old aircraft when they were cranking out new ones in such numbers. The wings probably came from a "used" bird that was parted out.

SN

If you look at the old wings just outboard of the engine the flaps area look to be about half the size of the new wings.

Steve

itvmitch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:22 am **Posts:** 3

I'm a volunteer at MAPS working on videos. I would like to use your images of the B-26 wing production line for a video I'm working on about the MAPS B-26. Please contact me at itvmitch@aol.com.
thanks
Steve

PhantomAce08 wrote:

Here are just some pics from the Goodyear Aircraft B-26 Wing Assembly Line at Akron. Enjoy!

(I think they could have used a bit faster shutter speed on some of them!

)

itvmitch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:22 am **Posts:** 3

I'm a volunteer at MAPS working on videos. I would like to use your images of the B-26 wing production line for a video I'm working on about the MAPS B-26. Please contact me at itvmitch@aol.com.
thanks
Steve

PhantomAce08 wrote:

Here are just some pics from the Goodyear Aircraft B-26 Wing Assembly Line at Akron. Enjoy!

(I think they could have used a bit faster shutter speed on some of them!

)

PhantomAce08 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:49 am

I will send you an email. These photos are all in the collection at MAPS (this was part of a donation that I catalogued and scanned back when I was a volunteer there in college).

itvmitch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:22 am **Posts:** 3

thanks

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