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40 PBYs on Lake Worth

Description: Aerial photograph of forty airplanes floating on Lake Worth. According to Jeff Rhodes: "On 22 November 1940, Consolidated Aircraft Chief Test Pilot Bill Wheatley contacted newspaper publisher and Fort Worth, Texas, civic booster Amon G. Carter, explaining the company had been ordered to transfer 200 PBY Catalina patrol seaplanes (37 of the aircraft can be seen in this photo) from San Diego, California, to Britain and that the crews were in immediate need of a layover point. In just eight days, … more
Date: November 30, 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.812158 -97.451343
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

B-36 No. 85 fuselage

Description: Photograph of the fuselage of the B-36 plane No. 85 under construction in the warehouse in November 1949. The bomb bay door is open under the plane. It's RB-36D 44-92088. Modified to carry the "Boston camera" and re-designated ERB-36D, it was eventually scrapped at Kelly AFB in 1955.
Date: November 1, 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.774992 -97.449530
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

RB-36 No. 85 fuselage

Description: Photograph of the fuselage of the RB-36 plane No. 85 under construction in the warehouse in November 1949. The bomb bay door is open under the plane.
Date: November 1, 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

Paying Poll Tax in Cafeteria

Description: Employees paying poll tax in the cafeteria on November 9, 1951. Employees (L-R): J.W. Melcher, E.C. Massingill, Jr., F.H. West, T.A. Johnston, J.A. Gordon, W.D. West, C.F. West, Chester May, C.F. Jones. Poll tax men: W.S. Lamb and J.I. Short.
Date: November 9, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

[B-36F No. 109 Flight Crew]

Description: Flight crew of a B-36F plane No. 109, posing in front of the plane's nose in their pressurized suits and helmets in November 1952. Front (L-R): G.L. Whiting, B.L. Woods, I.G. Hanten, and R.L. D'Abadie. Back (L-R):A.S. Witchell, J.D. McEachern, J.G. Parker and R. D. Norvell.
Date: November 13, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

Main Front Entrance with New Sign

Description: Photograph of the main entrance to Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas in November 1953. A new sign is posted at the gate reading, "Entrance to this Defense Plant is Granted for Official Business Only". A guard points to the sign as an automobile enters the gate.
Date: November 2, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

B-36 Assembly Line

Description: Photograph of the B-36 assembly line in November 1957. Planes are lined up in a warehouse as far as the eye can see. Scaffolding stands next to the wing and nose of the front plane.
Date: November 12, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth
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