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.
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2 posted on
01/04/2018 12:03:26 PM PST by
joesbucks
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This is AWESOME! God bless her and all of the other Rosies.
3 posted on
01/04/2018 12:06:46 PM PST by
Peesypie
(Yeah, well that's just, like, YOUR opinion, man...)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
My grandma was a welder in Oregon and helped build many Liberty ships.
4 posted on
01/04/2018 12:08:18 PM PST by
Bobalu
(12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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6 posted on
01/04/2018 12:11:05 PM PST by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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She retired in 2014 at the age of 95 Amazing .. God bless her !
7 posted on
01/04/2018 12:15:57 PM PST by
tomkat
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
She looks pretty good for 98!
9 posted on
01/04/2018 12:21:07 PM PST by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
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Wow!
She was still working in 2015!
Many female cargo pilots fly the C-17 Globemaster.
Many vids on youtube
Go Rosies!
10 posted on
01/04/2018 12:21:43 PM PST by
Bobalu
(12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Thanks, nice. Different than many Rosies today...
11 posted on
01/04/2018 12:24:26 PM PST by
polymuser
(Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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...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?
12 posted on
01/04/2018 12:44:27 PM PST by
Bigg Red
(Francis is a Nincompope.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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.
13 posted on
01/04/2018 12:47:30 PM PST by
katana
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
My Mother, and her sister, worked at Bell Aircraft (predecessor to Lockheed) in Atlanta back then...as riveters.
15 posted on
01/04/2018 1:21:44 PM PST by
FrankR
(On the knees is not a good place to be...a man on the knees is only half a man.....)
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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.
16 posted on
01/04/2018 2:39:51 PM PST by
Imnidiot
(This space for Rent)
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She is really amazing. Thank you for the story.
19 posted on
01/04/2018 4:08:30 PM PST by
Thud
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