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"Wind Her Up!"

Starting up the training airplane for use in teaching aviators
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Description: Painting, Oil on Canvas; by Georges Schreiber; 1943; Framed Dimensions 37H X 46W
Accession #: 88-159-IZ as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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An aviation machinist's mate winds up the inertia starter of a "Yellow Peril"--the Navy's primary trainer. After a period of instruction in these training biplanes, the aviation cadet will be ready for his intermediate training in the faster SNJ trainer.

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