{"id":17090,"date":"2020-12-09T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=17090"},"modified":"2020-12-09T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:50:14","slug":"national-campaign-to-fund-wwii-stearman-restoration-honor-rosie-the-riveters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/georgia\/national-campaign-to-fund-wwii-stearman-restoration-honor-rosie-the-riveters\/%20","title":{"rendered":"National Campaign to Fund WWII Stearman Restoration, Honor \u201cRosie the Riveters\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A World War II Stearman<\/a> training plane is among 12 aircraft selected this year for the annual Commemorative Air Force (CAF) fundraising campaign, \u201cTwelve Planes of Christmas.\u201d The CAF Dixie Wing in Peachtree City, Ga., is restoring the Stearman and dedicating it to all WWII Rosie the Riveters, the women who were instrumental in staffing U.S. manufacturing plants for the war effort. American women played important roles during World War II, both at home and in uniform. An estimated five million civilian women served in the defense industry and elsewhere in the commercial sector during World War II with the goal of freeing men to fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is an honor to have one of our aircraft selected for this\nnational campaign,\u201d said Robyn Rosenzweig, Stearman project leader. \u201cOur goal\nis to inspire the next generation of pilots, mechanics and citizens through our\nproject.  We need to raise $65,000 to\npurchase the engine for our Stearman bi-plane. All of the mechanical work will\nbe done by our own volunteers, including several female wing members\nrepresenting the Rosies of WWII.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Betty Bishop with Kingcobra pilots.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The CAF Dixie Wing recently named its restored P-63\nKingcobra in honor of an actual Rosie, Betty Bishop of Florida, who helped build\nthe very aircraft restored by the Wing, when she was working at an aircraft\nplant in New York in the 1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rosies\u2019 accomplishments and contribution to the war\neffort are included in the World War II Home Front\u00ae lesson plan series licensed\nby the CAF Dixie Wing for use by educators throughout the State of Georgia. The\nStearman restoration also will serve as an education topic, designed for\nelementary, middle and high school students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dixie Wing\u2019s 1941 Stearman will be restored and painted\nto represent an example of the U.S. Navy\u2019s iconic WWII biplane trainer. The\nU.S. Army Air Forces operated them as the PT-13 and PT-17, while the U.S. Navy\nhad their own variants, the NS and N2S. More than 10,000 \u2018Stearmans\u2019 rolled off\nthe factory\u2019s production line in Wichita, Kan., before war\u2019s end. They were an\nessential element in the pilot training program for virtually every military\nairman on the North American continent during the decade straddling WWII. This\naircraft type is the most numerous WWII-era warbird still flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make a contribution, go to https:\/\/bit.ly\/3mk024D<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any gift will be appreciated and will count toward the campaign goal. Educators interested in the Rosie K-5 lesson plan can contact the CAF Dixie Wing<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A World War II Stearman training plane is among 12 aircraft selected this year for the annual Commemorative Air Force (CAF) fundraising campaign, \u201cTwelve Planes of Christmas.\u201d The CAF Dixie Wing in Peachtree City, Ga., is restoring the Stearman and dedicating it to all WWII Rosie the Riveters, the women who were instrumental in staffing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image001-copyedit-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17098,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions\/17098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}