Allen Airways Ltd
13 Airport Road P8T1A3 Sioux Lookout, ON, Canada

next in the jig cessna 188 agwagon

completed wings

another one done rh wing C-GBKA

How To Build A B17 ...B17 Assembly Line .From ..1944

got it loaded today -15 not to bad + 35 in brisbane way to hot for me

Bought a tired PA-12, float and ski equipped, in 1979 from Bob Dowhey of Ignace Airways. By 1981 my friend and aviation legend George Allen had turned it into this beauty. Photo taken at Rosnel.

Portrait of Frances Green, Margaret (Peg) Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn, Women Airforce Service Pilots during WWII, pictured here as they leave their... airplane, nicknamed Pistol Packin Mama, during training. Sources: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force / Unknown, WASP Pilots in front of USAAF B-17 "Pistol Packin Mama.", The United States in World War II: Historical Debates about America at War, accessed December 6, 2020, http://oberlinlibstaff.com/omeka_hist244/items/show/95.

A female Lockheed employee works on a P-38 Lightning, 1944This striking image goes out to the women who empower and need to be empowered. If there is, in any little way, a positive thing that the second world war has brought, it was an opportunity for women at the time to be hired in industries that initially discriminated them.

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I’m not sure how many millions of pounds of freight have left this location but it’s a lot! Visiting a chilly Pickle Lake Ontario today!

"The Nazis called them 'Night Witches' because the whooshing noise their plywood and canvas airplanes made reminded the Germans of the sound of a witch’s brooms...tick. The Russian women who piloted those planes, onetime crop dusters, took it as a compliment. In 30,000 missions over four years, they dumped 23,000 tons of bombs on the German invaders, ultimately helping to chase them back to Berlin. Any German pilot who downed a 'witch' was awarded an Iron Cross. These young heroines, all volunteers and most in their teens and early 20s, became legends of World War II but are now largely forgotten. Flying only in the dark, they had no parachutes, guns, radios or radar, only maps and compasses. If hit by tracer bullets, their planes would burn like sheets of paper." So begins a NY Times tribute to one of the most famous "Night Witches," Nadezhda Popova, pictured here. Popova, who flew 852 missions during the war, passed away in 2013 at the age of 91. For a gripping historical fiction novel for adult readers that explores the history of the Night Witches, we highly recommend "The Huntress" at https://amzn.to/2XtTrIa For a fascinating YA historical fiction novel based on the Night Witches, for ages 13 and up, we recommend "Among the Red Stars" at https://www.amightygirl.com/among-the-red-stars For adult readers who would like to learn more about the role of Russian women combat pilots during WWII, there are several excellent books including "Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II" (http://amzn.to/2e6z2BQ), "Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat" (http://amzn.to/1fyPOs8), "The Unwomanly Face of War" (https://amzn.to/2KcO6BJ), and "Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II" (http://amzn.to/1mTMad9) For an inspiring book about more courageous women who stood up to the Nazi regime, we highly recommend "Women Heroes of World War II: 32 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue" for teens and adults like, ages 13 and up, at https://www.amightygirl.com/women-heroes-of-world-war-ii For adults who love to read about heroic women of WWII, you can find more of the best fiction and non-fiction books in our blog post, "Telling Her Story: 30 Books for Adult Readers About Women Heroes of WWII," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=24501 And, for books for all ages about girls and women living through the WWII period, visit our "WWII & Holocaust" section at http://amgrl.co/1l9UWIe

Elsie MacGill went to college in the early 1920s, a time in which women didn't work as engineers. But she had her dream and mindset that our direction in life ...is determined by something within us. So she began her studies at the University of Toronto in 1923 in electric engineering. Four years later she graduated, the first woman in Canada to earn a degree in electric engineering. She then moved to the U.S. for work and to study for a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan. Towards the end of the master’s program she developed polio. Paralyzed from the waist down with doctors believing she’d never walk again, Elsie finished her degree. She wrote her final exams while in the hospital. Then with focus and exercise, over time, she began walking with the assistance of two canes. Elsie went on to become an accomplished engineer, becoming the Chief Aeronautical Engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry. Amongst a number of responsibilities, during WWII she focused on making production line operation more efficient as demand for development increased, and to design solutions to ensure the Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft, which the company was now in charge of building for the Royal Air Force, could operate during the winter. As her career progressed, she took an increasing role in advocating for women’s rights. In her words, "I have received many engineering awards, but I hope I will also be remembered as an advocate for the rights of women and children. Sources: Montagnes, James. "Canada's Only Girl Chief Aero Engineer: Pretty Elsie MacGill, Once of M. I. T., is Whiz at Her Job, but Likes to Knit, Cook, Play Bridge, Too." Daily Boston Globe (1928-1960), Apr 28 1940, p. 1. / Sissons, Crystal. "Elsie Gregory MacGill: Engineering the Future and Building Bridges for Canadian Women, 19181980." Order No. NR50755 University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_MacGill / National Archives of Canada