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Professor Benjamin Willis instructing three cadettes in the Electrical Engineering Power Laboratory, 1943
Three cadettes are listening to instructions from their Professor Benjamin Willis in the Electrical Engineering Power Laboratory. One cadette is focused on a piece of equipment while another is taking notes. The third cadette looks on from the right.…
A cadette working in a drafting class, 1943
A professor is watching a cadette use a right triangle to draft a picture of a piece of equipment.
Professor Glenn Murphy illustrates aspects of airplane flight analysis to a class of Curtiss Wright Cadettes, 1943
Professor Glenn Murphy is illustrating some aspects of airplane flight analysis to a class of Curtiss-Wright cadettes.
Two cadettes examining a cone-shaped part on the side of a plane, 1943
A cadettes is touching the top of a small cone-shaped part on the side of a small airplane in the Aeronautics Laboratory. This plane, sans wings, was used for instructional purposes. Another cadette is by her side also looking at the part.
Professor Les Kelso instructing two cadettes about an airplane engine, 1943
Professor Les Kelso is instructing two cadettes about an airplane engine.
Professor Les Kelso describing the propulsion system of a small airplane to three cadettes, 1943
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…
Betty Belle Gardner is holding a model transport plane to be placed in the wind tunnel in the Aeronautical Engineering Laboratory, 1943
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.
Two cadettes welding metal parts together, 1943
Two cadettes are welding metal parts together. They are wearing slacks and eye goggles and their hair is wrapped in a turban.
Two cadettes welding parts of the tail of a wrecked plane, 1943
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…
Two cadettes practice using a pneumatic riveter , 1943
Marie Stevens ( El Paso, Tex) is on the left holding the riveter while Nema Lou Gause (Caney, Kansas) on the right, is holding the bucking bar.
