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The design work in the Engineering Department will entail the use of considerable engineering training. Many of the women will be placed in detail drafting, others will be performing a variety of engineering calculations in the structures group, some will be calculating weights, others will be assisting with aerodynamic and flight calculations and a few will be placed in the test laboratory. In addition to these engineering positions, other openings requiring a general knowledge of aeronautical engineering, such as technical writing or production planning will be available. All of these opportunities should prove more fascinating to a woman who is interested in the engineering phases of the aircraft industry.

Chance Vought Aircraft has long been recognized as an outstanding designer of Naval aircraft. A number of Vought engineered airplanes are daily seeing service with the United States and British Navies. The Vought Kingfisher, the OS2U-3, is serving as an observation plane; the Vindicator, the SB2U-3, is a dive bomber; and the Vought Corsair, the F4U-1, is the Navy's newest shipboard fighter. The Navy has accepted the Corsair as its standard shipboard fighter, and this superb airplane is now being produced not only be Chance Vought, but by several other aircraft companies.

Chance Vought Aircraft is a division of the United Aircraft Corporation, and as such enjoys many of the advantages that result from the integrated production of the major parts of an airplane. Other divisions of the Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and Hamilton Standard Propeller, manufacture airplane engines and propellers and Chance Vought assembles the complete airplane. The close relationship with the engine and propeller divisions make it possible the engineering and production of superior airplanes by Chance Vought Aircraft.