Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, is known as the C-87, carries one of the greatest human and cargo loads of any plane now in mass production.

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WWII, Female Mechanic, Airplane Factory, 1942

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