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Flying Boat Construction
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Technicians are pictured installing flaps and wiring on a flying-boat model, circa 1944 (page 47). Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication, by James Schultz. Photograph also published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen (page 209). -- Photographed on: 04/24/1946.
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Credit lineFlying Boat Construction. NASA/LRC, 1946-04-24. Public domain. ID: LRC-1946-B701_P-46826.
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