Douglas Aircraft Engineers donning special helmets, shoes and cold weather clothing before entering Low Temperature Laboratory in Santa Monica, California. The temperature in the chamber is below 60 degrees. Engineers enter the cold chamber to test aircraft equipment. They check the equipment inside the cold chambers.
Donald Douglas, Edsel Ford and Charles E. Sorensan examining aircraft A-20A in Santa Monica plant. They inspect the nose section of the aircraft and look at a plane taxiing out
Workers entering Douglas Aircraft factory in Santa Monica, California, early during World War II. Workers assembling aircraft in the factory and women workers working on wings of aircraft. Men and women war production workers building bomber aircraft for Britain and the United States war effort.
View of crowd around aircraft Douglas B-19. B-19's wheel crushes the pavement and men use a big board to let the wheel out. B-19 taxiing out at Santa Monica.
Douglas B-19 aircraft taxiing for test flight and large crowd watching its first test flight. B-19 landing. Major Stanley Umstead, Commander of B-19 crew, walking with others and talking with a cigar in his mouth. (World War 2 era.)
Views of stratosphere cold box at Douglas aircraft Plant, Santa Monica. Shows two men being put on high altitude suits and entering special pressure chamber to test effect of high altitude and temperature on men and equipment, and to learn useful information for supporting crews in bomber aircraft. Men inside the chamber and coming out after testing. (Early in World War 2 period.)