Show Grandma Learns Blueprinting in is Aircraft School In San Diego theres there's one school in ina a great building left over from the San Diego exposition exposition another another in a achurch church church another another even in a once- once vacant storeroom They're crammed with students the like of which has never been seen before Two grandmothers one white haired the other pink cheeked and marvelled bend together with compass compass compass com com- pass and rulers over adjoining desks They are both learning to be mechanical mechanical mechanical me me- draftsmen to turn out their share of the ten acres of blueprints required to build a single flying bat bat- How on earth you ask the Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- teacher do you manage to guess that a grandmother er can learn some engineering when she decides she wants to help In when when-I the war I Its UIt's not so difficult at that you are told First we look for evidence evidence evi evi- I evi-I dence of artistic talent Perhaps a I woman has done painting or drawing drawing draw draw- I ing or fine arts design Perhaps she laid a 3 career aside to bring up upa a family If she can draw and i if she is Intelligent we ve can easily teach her mechanical draftsman draftsman- I ship She is straight on her way Into the engineering department In California where the airframe industry of the nation centers literally literally literally lit lit- hundreds of thousands of people people people peo peo- have gone to school and are today today today to to- day at work doing precision Jobs Most of them were never before ina ina in ina a factory In an age that has been called revolutionary here we have the real j revolution The lure of wartime money Is not enough to have have- done this In San Diego for instance Consolidated early realized that the sort of of work work- workers ers needed must be appealed to on the basis of their patriotism I |