Betty Cue, a stenographer at the Memorial Union, is seated showing a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk model plane to a cadette who is sitting on the floor in front of a fireplace. The plane has a wood framework with a paper exterior with a wind up, rubber-band…
One of the cadettes is using an optical telescope system, possibly to view the test model inside the wind tunnel. The cadette on the right is monitoring another instrument.
These cadettes with their hair wrapped in a turban and wearing eye protection, are working on the tail of a wrecked plane in the Welding Laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering Building. One of the projects for the five-week laboratory course was…
Betty Belle Gardner (Parsons, Kansas) is getting an advance taste of work in the wind tunnel in the Aeronautical Laboratory. She is about to replace a wing section in the mouth of the tunnel with a model transport plane.
Professor Les Kelso is pointing out the propulsion system of a small general aviation airplane. These airplanes, sans wings, were in the Aeronautics Laboratory for purposes of visualization and illustration. The plane may be a Luscomb or a…
