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R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942
1942-10
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- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
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- This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsac.1a35357. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
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- Public domain, as the museum states it.
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- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
A woman employee of Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942, being trained on the details of installing an aircraft engine. The engine is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp 14-cylinder radial engine of 1,200 horsepower (890 kW); it is being installed on a Douglas C-47 Skytrain twin-engined transport airplane, the military version of the Douglas DC-3 airliner.
