Vintage work crew photos

[mr mikey]

It passes the test when the guy on top hits his head on the ceiling and the part isn't bent. ouch. The good old days. Mr Mikey.

[Jon]

Short Sunderland aircraft construction workers. Rochester, Kent, England.

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[Toolmaker51]

Not just aircraft, that's fuselage of a bomber sized flying boat, maybe even amphibious. That would take a more serious building than 'normal' aircraft!
Yup, recognized it, as former nut on aviation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland

Far more beneficial post than a Short Sunderland workers wisecrack, as I often descend in to.

[marksbug]

former?:

[Toolmaker51]

Former as in less intense than ages 6 thru 30 something.
Sleeping under flight deck catapults of Enterprise cured me. After a small fire (not 1969) we moved aft awhile, under the arresting gear. No improvement.

[mwmkravchenko]

That's still a large airplane. Larger than a Hercules.

[Jon]

Cpl. Albert Singer (Left); T/Sgt. Weldon L. Rugg, and Cpl Walter Robert (Right) fix the hatch on a Northrop P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter of the 9th Air Force, France, 27 Sep 1944

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[Toolmaker51]

Don't recall such a nose-on view of a P-61; showing the fuselage is far narrower and deeper than assumed.

[Frank S]

Don't recall such a nose-on view of a P-61; showing the fuselage is far narrower and deeper than assumed.

That is because you are looking at the rear gunner's position

[Toolmaker51]

That would explain it; even looked to be enough glass for a pilot position.