Goodyear Aircraft B-26 Wing Assembly Line

[PhantomAce08]

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! )

[Former Member]

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

And here I thought there were just a bunch of ghosts in the pictures...LOL! There sure are some young looking faces in those pics...I guess they must've ignored the child labor laws.

Thanks for sharing!

John

[RMAllnutt]

Very cool photos... please post more, especially if you have some of the Corsair production line.

Incidentally, the slow shutter speeds were required to get the depth of field high enough for them to be worth a darn. Plus they didn't have any fast films back then either. These are very well taken photographs.

Cheers. Richard

[Connery]

Nice pics. Like Richard said, the slow shutter speed was so that everything in focus, from near to far. I have a few shots of the Vought assembly line similar to those that were taken by my father when he ran the photo department.

[Malo83]

Where's Rosie the Riveter

[ww2John]

Most Excellent Pictures.

Many thanks for sharing.

As far as shutter speeds go, in addition to no "fast" films back then, some of the "senior members" of WIX can probably recall just how dark manuafacturing plants were back then, compared to now.

All things being equal, that "old", "slow" film is really crisp (no grain) and these pictures are superb quality.

[PhantomAce08]

Very cool photos... please post more, especially if you have some of the Corsair production line.

I'm not sure if there are any of the Corsair production line (I haven't gone through everything yet), but there is a bunch of F2G Super Corsair production line photos!

That really makes sense about the shutter speed... I really kind of like it how it looks.


As for "Rosie the Riveter".... I think I have some of those, but I haven't scanned them in yet. Not sure if any are with Corsairs, but I think they are from the Goodyear Plant in Arizona and they are working on PB2Y-3 Coronados.

[Chicoartist]

. . . but there is a bunch of F2G Super Corsair production line photos!

Thx in advance for posting ...

[leo]

If they are available to you, the "Wings" programs from about 15 years back on the Corsair, Hellcat and B-26 have long segments on production in them. Very cool to watch.

[mustangdriver]

I love the airdock. I hope that it is eventually saved to be a museum or something.

[B-29 Super Fort]

I love seeing these old assembly line photos, thanks for posting.

[bdk]

I think it is cool to see some of the wings already painted with markings before the airplane gets assembled. The bare metal plane must have been a prototype or a first article. The fixturing seems a bit basic for regular production.

[CorsairFreak]

The bare metal plane was just a test fusealage for checking the fit of the new wings being made.

[PhantomAce08]

The bare metal plane was just a test fusealage for checking the fit of the new wings being made.

Here is a different shot of it...



And more pics per request...

[gregv]

I think it is cool to see some of the wings already painted with markings before the airplane gets assembled.

For some reason when I saw that photo I assumed that those were a pair of "used" wings, either in for repair or for use as general reference or jig manufacturing/confirmation etc.

What are all those stacks of what appear to be thin plywood for? Or are those stacks of aluminum sheet stock?

Very cool photos, thanks for sharing.

cheers

greg v.