Re: Airplanes - Engines - Aircraft Testing Field

Posted by Packard Newbie On 2019/10/21 15:21:01

Interesting stuff - thanks for posting Guscha. I can't help but being taken aback by that testing stand. An open ended building leading out to a muddy yard with junk everywhere to test aircraft engines?!?!? One can only imagine how that would be viewed by today's standards. All the 'clean rooms' and 'eat-off-the-floor' testing facilities at places like Boeing, certainly make a stark comparison to what was considered 'okay' back in the day. We did hydraulic hose assemblies for a couple of aircraft builders in my working days and the hoops they made you jump through to ensure that not one speck of dirt was being introduced into ANY or their systems, was incredible. Suffice to say, the state-of-the-art of the industry has come a long, long way! Also Tim, in response to your remark on women working in these places, my Mom had a job at a munitions factory up here in Canada when she was a very young girl. She said it was both dangerous and, as you said had deplorable working conditions. She recounted coworkers getting digits and even hands blown off by accidents but she said the pay was three times what she could make as a serger, cook, or any of the other 'jobs of the day' so women were willing to take the risk. Lucky for her, she emerged with all here fingers, but as a result of excessive noise, had severe hearing loss at a very young age. Chris.