1943 Ad Blind Flying Training Cockpit World War II Cellulose Acetate FTM4 CRD1 Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing

Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing

This is an original 1923 halftone print of a portrait of a woman by William James Glackens

This is an original 1926 photogravure of a boat in Ocean Falls Harbor in the Province of British Columbia

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1943 Ad Blind Flying Training Cockpit World War II Cellulose Acetate FTM4 CRD1 Yellow Truck and Coach ManufacturingThis is an original 1943 color print ad for the Hercules Powder Company, who used cellulose acetate to reduce the casualties in blind flying training during World War II. As the use of flight instruments became more crucial for night flying and combat, it was necessary to train pilots to rely solely on the tools in front of them. In a cockpit with green plastic, the trainee would wear red tinted goggles, rendering his external vision useless and