Elinor Otto, a retired Rosie the Riveter, speaks at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference after receiving AFA's Lifetime Achievement award. Otto flew in a C-17, which she helped build, for the first time on Monday. Screenshot photo.
Posted on 01/04/2018 12:02:21 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Cool story.
This is AWESOME! God bless her and all of the other Rosies.
My grandma was a welder in Oregon and helped build many Liberty ships.
Outstanding!
What a wonderful story.
Amazing .. God bless her !
Yeah, that’s what I really found amazing, retired at age 95.
She looks pretty good for 98!
She was still working in 2015!
Many female cargo pilots fly the C-17 Globemaster.
Many vids on youtube
Go Rosies!
Thanks, nice. Different than many Rosies today...
...Otto’s flight is part of a movement to form “21st Century Rosies” by helping girls and young women join the tech industry....
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When, oh, when will they stop with the sexual divisiveness. What about programs to help boys and young men?
My mom was a “Rosie” at a GE Aviation plant in Cincinnati during WWII. Something she took great pride in. Now my daughter is with them as a graduate aeronautical engineer and the pride continues to a third generation.
10 in that photo!
Great pic!
My Mother, and her sister, worked at Bell Aircraft (predecessor to Lockheed) in Atlanta back then...as riveters.
If you listen to the video, near the end she relates a story that portrays the Mechanics Creed-—”If it doesn’t fit, get a bigger hammer”.
Sounded scary to me.
Cool!
My Mom was a Rosie the Riveter for Lockheed in Long Beach, CA.
I still have the Lockheed yearbook showing hundreds of Rosies gathered around a bomber they had just built.
Thank God for the Greatest Generation!
Ed
She is really amazing. Thank you for the story.
My Grand Mother and my Mother both welded for Henry Kaiser in the his shipyard at Vancouver, Washington. They worked liberty ships and Casablanca class escort carriers.
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