Did you know that airplanes used to be stitched together, and then epoxied? I had heard mention of it in documentaries and such, but the reality of the construction of aircraft literally from cloth didn’t really register with me until I saw these photos of women during World War II sewing together the wings of a plane.
There’s something quite elegant about it, isn’t there?
~Sarah
Photos from the Library of Congress image collection.
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