Ruth Ripley and Rita Sabatini riveting Kingcobra fighter plane cabin
View of Ruth Ripley and Rita Sabatini riveting a Kingcobra fighter plane cabin at the Hudson Motor Car Company factory. Label on back: "Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich. Publication approved by Army Air Forces. Hudson builds Kingcobra cabins. Armored cabins for a powerful new fighter plane, the P-63 Kingcobra, a product of the Bell Aircraft Corp., of Buffalo, are being built by the Hudson Motor Car Co. in one of its Detroit plants. The plane was named after a very venomous snake found in India and the Philippines. The Kingcobra cabins are so small and compact that only one person can work inside them while they are being built. Ruth Ripley is operating the riveting gun while Rita Sabatini holds the bucking bar in this photo taken on the busy Hudson production line. Heavy bullet-proof glass is placed in the windshield and roof of the cabin further along the line." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
- Resource ID:
- na040296
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- Rivets and riveting, Aircraft
- Kingcobra (Fighter plane)--Design and construction
- Airplanes--Cockpits--Design and construction
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Women workers, 90:8
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.