'Flying boxcar'

Lewis Meadows photographs a Fairchild Aviation "flying boxcar" cargo plane Sunday at Hagerstown Regional Airport. Meadows said his mother, Vontella Meadows, was a riveter for Fairchild and helped produce this plane. He said she lined the runway with other workers in September 1944 for the inaugural flight.
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( By Kevin G. Gilbert/Staff Photographer )

Lewis Meadows photographs a Fairchild Aviation "flying boxcar" cargo plane Sunday at Hagerstown Regional Airport. Meadows said his mother, Vontella Meadows, was a riveter for Fairchild and helped produce this plane. He said she lined the runway with other workers in September 1944 for the inaugural flight.

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