Production. Parachute making. What at first seems to be a department store lingerie counter is actually pilot chutes lined up for inspection at an Eastern parachute factory. A pilot chute is hooked up to every parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironing board, this is really a parachute stretched over a glass table, upon which it is subjected to rigid inspection. Electric lights underneath the table show up the slightest imperfection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Parachutes, back from a test flight, are inspected in this manner in an Eastern plant. A certain percentage of all parachutes produced are dropped from planes, then returned to the plant for inspection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. What at first seems to be a department store lingerie counter is actually pilot chutes lined up for inspection at an Eastern parachute factory. A pilot chute is hooked up to every parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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