Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 3, 1946
Caption:
OFFICIALS SIGN WILLOW RUN AGREEMENT: Officials of the government, the University of Michigan and the Capital Airlines--PCA were present when the three-way agreement was signed today turning the huge airport at Willow Run over to the University. Seated left to right are Elton A. Burke, acting department director of real property disposal, War Assets Administration; University President Alexander G. Ruthven, and Vice-President Robert P. Briggs. Standing, Robert J. Wilson, airlines vice-president and counsel, and Robert M. Averill, western regional vide-president of the airlines. (Other pictures are on page 18.)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1946
Caption:
WILLOW RUN FROM THE AIR: The sprawling giant of American war plants, Willow Run now seems by comparison a quiet, empty place, as more than 1,000 workers prepare her for her peacetime role of automobile production. In this, one of the first aerial shots of the plant to be printed, Willow Run's hugeness is made graphic. In the background is the airfield where completed B-24s took off on their first step to battle. The picture was taken at an altitude of 800 feets, with the camera pointing east.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 16, 1947
Caption:
SUPPLIES AIR FOR SUPERSONIC WIND TUNNEL: This converted 25,000 cubic foot barrage balloon at Willow Run holds the dehydrated air which rushes through the University's wind tunnel at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour to test aircraft materials for planes of the future. Open house for newspaper representatives was held this afternoon.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 16, 1947
Caption:
Raymond Schneyer, University aeronautical engineer, studies the manometer, in the above picture, to determine the velocity of wind blowing through the new supersonic tunnel at the Willow Run laboratory.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 16, 1947
Caption:
VACUUM TANKS FOR WILLOW RUN WIND TUNNEL: These oil car tanks, converted from supplies intended for the USSR during the war, are pumped free of air to create the vacuum which draws air through the University of Michigan's supersonic wind tunnel at the Willow Run Laboratories. The air, which technicians hope to get up to speeds of 7,000 miles per hour, takes only 15 seconds to pass through the tunnel-- and two and one-half hours to be pumped back to the supply balloon.