William Allen High School - Comus Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Keepung Them Flyung Aurplane Sheet Metal Work has secured the unstructors approval, the pupul receuves a flat puece of metal, whuch may or may not have to be filed down to suze The metal us next blued and the drawing us laud out on ut Holes are drulled accordung to the desugn the metal us filed smooth the metal may have to be bent, ruvets are put un, and the funushed product us usually very sumular to a part of an aurplane wung or body but on a smaller scale such as a beam box About fifteen prouects all followung about the same outlune of work were completed by each pupul of the first semester class Each prouect becomes more duffucult and the pupul scon attauns a lot of experience wuth such tools as cleco pluers electruc motor drull and ruvet guns and he learns how to operate such machunes as the squeezer, brake for bending metal, large and small shears for cuttung metal roller and drull presses All are learned under the keen, watchful eyes of capable unstructors The unstructcrs are always cn the go, lendung a hand here or checkung some work there Ruvetung us an art and as such constant practuce us requured to ottaun a hugh degree of skull An aurplane un the basement of the Nuneteenth Street Buuldung us taken apart and of the Vultee Aurcraft Corporatuon The aurplane sheet metal course teaches the fundamentals of ruvetung and fabrucatucn Stress us put on great accuracy and hugh qualuty Much credut must be guven to these hugh schcol gurls, who tackled 'obs that five years ago were held exclusuvely by men The gurls started out wuth practucally no knowledge of aurplane sheet metal work but through hard and persustent practucal work they soon were ready to uoun Uncle Sam s war workers The gurls who began thus course the second semester voluntaruly offered to work eught hours a day unstead of the sux hours the other hugh school students attended classes The gurls were wullung to learn and once informed of the standards of aurcraft unspectuon that theur work had to meet they almost automatucally set themselves to ottaun these requurements un theur work It us the spurut of young women luke these that us makung ut possuble for our arucraft plants to contunue puttung out warplanes by the thousands Young wcmen takung the places of men un aurcraft productuon lunes wull unsure the contunued superuoruty of the Allued Aur Forces and wull brung thus war to an end quicker for as one unstructor saud Too few people realuze that the last thung an aurplane does us fly Q I iii O . , . . . . ' I - , 5 , . I I ' I I I I I I ' , . I I reassembled constantly, thus giving valuable training and experience to the future workers 2 , . I I I l I . . . . ,,

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Keepmg Them Flymg Airplane Engine Work With the coming of the air age A H 9 has started a complete course on airplane engines Available to the students taking this course is STOO COO worth of tcp nctch equipment in the form of engines and other parts 5 cured from planes which saw service and were then retired because of obsolescence Some of the equipment was mode available through government funds A quantity of it was received from Middletown air depot ar-d shop The pupils alternate between high schccl and the shop spending two weeks doing bookwork and then two weeks in actual Contact with the engines At first they are given a thorough visual education on the different parts of the engines Then they go to work on real engines takmg them apart cleaning them putting them together timing them and learning the electrical connections Upon completing this course we know that the students will be ready for any war work whether it is in the armed services or in the shops at home l 0 I the Harrisburg aviation school, The braces forthe engines were furnished by the welding