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If she were younger, she jokes, she would look at herself now and wonder, "What's that old bag still doing here?"
Elinor Otto picked up a riveting gun in World War II, joining the wave of women taking what had been men's jobs. These days she's building the C-17.
Sept. 18, 2013
Elinor Otto braces her slight frame and grips the riveting gun with both hands,
her bright red hair and flowered sweater a blossom of color in Long Beach's clanking Boeing C-17 plant.
Boom, boom, boom.
She leans back as the gun's hammer quickly smacks the fasteners into place.
Then she puts the tool in a holster and zips around a wing spar to grab a handful of colorful screw-on backs, picking up another gun along the way to finish them off.
Her movements are deft and precise.
"Don't get in her way, she'll run you over," a co-worker says with a smile.
Otto finishes a section of fasteners, looks up and shrugs.
"That's it."
Just another day at the office for a 93-year-old "Rosie the Riveter" who stepped into a San Diego County factory in 1942 — and is still working on the assembly line today. (September 2013...)
Otto is something of a legend among her co-workers on the state's last large military aircraft production line.
And her legend is growing
