Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Installing fittings and operating equipment in the body of a consolidated transport plane under construction in a Western plant. View is looking forward from the tail fuselage. Note how the wing center section (top center) passes through the plane body. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country