QuickBooks Desktop 2024, QuickBooks software types and versions. Get ready and some coffee because we're locking into some non-stop QuickBooks Desktop 2024. First a word from our sponsor. 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their pros and their cons what we would like to do here is try to think of a system where we can take this complex question break it down into digestible chunks possibly visualizing it as kind of like a tree diagram so we can analyze on different levels of that type of tree diagram this is not the only way that you might want to do these comparisons but it is one way that we could do these types of comparisons so obviously one type of comparison you might want to do is to be looking at different types of leading companies that have accounting software such as Intuit Intuit being the owner of QuickBooks whether it be the desktop and online version and make your comparisons that way and then within each of the companies that you're looking at in our case of course Intuit being the owner of QuickBooks you might then compare the types of software that they have within them the major two types of softwares these days you can have two broad categories of software one being is it a desktop oriented type of software two being is it an online type orientation of the software the desktop will typically be defined as you have the actual data file on your computer which has some pros and cons to it versus the online version in which case you have the data file on the company server of the company that you purchased it from in this case Intuit now this same kind of tree diagram you can compare to other companies other than Intuit as well if you're looking at competitors you could ask the question is their primary product an online version of the software or a desktop version of the software and that's one way that you could start to make your comparisons make a little bit more sense and and have apples to apples type comparisons so in this case we're looking at Intuit and we want to just compare the desktop versus the online this course will be orientated towards the desktop but we want to just first take a look at this comparison and then once we're in the desktop we can take a look at more kind of versions within the desktop so once you've decided say on the desktop for example then you have different versions such as the standard version versus the enterprise advanced versions and specializations within the advanced version okay so some comparisons on the desktop side one of the big questions coming up is there a risk that Intuit is going to be canceling the desktop version so there's a lot of debate over this if you look at the marketing for QuickBooks you can see that they're highly marketing the online version at least with regards to the market for the pro product so for the standard kind of small to mid size type of business now note it's unlikely it seems at this point in time that the enterprise version of the desktop which is going to be like the more advanced version which Intuit kind of sometimes thinks of as though it's a separate thing right so if they say QuickBooks desktop they might be talking about QuickBooks pro plus if you say QuickBooks enterprise it's still QuickBooks desktop but that's like their advanced type version and it seems like at this point in time at least the things seems like that one is here to stay because it has so much of those specialty items so if I was to make the guess here on what Intuit is trying or thinking to do it seems by their marketing which you can see if you go to their actual webpage that they're trying to gear most people that are on the small to mid size to the online version and then trying to use the desktop version more for the advanced users that would be going towards the enterprise and the specialty type of areas and it looks like they're trying to phase out the small to mid size businesses on the desktop version will they be able to do that I don't know it seems like that's been their plan ever since the online version has been has been out there and you know as you can see by the fighters up here that the online version has the reach and whatnot so they were kind of expecting the knockout to happen like in the first round for the desktop version but the desktop version has some crazy moves and whatnot and a lot of people like the desktop version so they haven't really been able to knock out the desktop version yet and it seems like now the online version is trying to take advantage of its longer reach and it's like stepping back and it's trying to wear out the desktop version by by hitting it from a range with their marketing at this point in time but who knows we don't really know if the desktop versions are going to go away but it seems to me that the that the online or the desktop enterprise will still be applicable on the advanced side of things which be for the larger companies and I still think it's going to be difficult for them to completely remove the even the standard desktop because there's advantages to them that many people like which we'll talk more about here okay so subscription model subscription model notice that one of the desktop one of the differences between the desktop and online version used to be that you can buy the desktop version at a one price and then you can use it for multiple years and you can see why that would appeal to certain bookkeepers and businesses that didn't want to pay for the new version because they just need the standard use of a standard software for multiple years and older versions of the software did quite fine did quite well it it was also useful for bookkeepers that had like small clients that didn't have any special needs because then they can buy like one version of the software and they can basically take care of the bookkeeping needs for multiple uh companies with that version of the software not even have to update it and whatnot now obviously on the intuit side of things you can imagine they wouldn't like that because if if they're trying to support multiple versions of the software that's going to be more difficult on their side so what they did is they moved even the desktop version to a subscription model so that you kind of have to update it each year now you might still be able to buy QuickBooks desktop somewhere before the date that they that they switched to the subscription model in which case you know you can it'd be good to practice with that kind of software if nothing else because because it's still good so I mean it still does all the basic kind of things and you can practice with it but going forward it looks like everyone's going to be on the subscription thing now you would think on on the other hand on the other side of things you would think that after changing to the subscription model intuit it would be easier for intuit to keep the desktop version because now they don't have to deal with supporting all the prior versions they can just update everyone the same way they do online so will that impact them as to whether they're going to try to remove the desktop version not for the enterprise they're probably going to keep that but just for like the pro uh I I don't know so multiple company files for one purchase on the desktop versus only one company file per purchase for the online now obviously in certain areas being able to have multiple company files with one purchase of the desktop even if you have to pay annually in a subscription model is beneficial because for example if you're the type of bookkeeper that has multiple companies that they do bookkeeping for with one accounting software then that's great right that you're gonna you're gonna be able to do multiple company files and only pay the one for the one software because you because it's kind of like using Microsoft's word for example you can make multiple word documents and with one file the word documents being equivalent in this analogy to the company files whereas with the online version you have to purchase a new online company file new online company per new company which so you could see what the advantages would be now for the for for intuit of course you can see why they would want to have and force everybody to purchase a new company file if you're going to be starting up a new company so I would think that would be possibly one of the tension areas where you have a lot of bookkeepers which are saying hey look I have a business model that works with what I'm doing right now with the one company file and an online saying you know we want to we want to have everybody who starts a new company file to pay for a different subscription also the fact that you can have multiple company files is great for practicing and testing things so it's great for us from a student standpoint so if you're just using this to practice with having multiple company files that you can open is really useful because then you can open a company file you can practice a certain thing and then you can open a different company file and practice something different and even if this was your own file for example for your company if you wanted to test something out like the bank feeds for example or test something out like a software integration it would be great to have a sandbox to do that with before doing it to your actual company file if you back up your company file make a separate company file and then test these things out it's a great tool whereas that's more difficult to do with the online version with the online version I can't really just make a separate company file as easily and play with it there are alternatives they have the quickbooks test drive and stuff but they don't have as much functionality and you don't have as much customization than if you were to make your own company file so static backup files versus data stored on secure server now there's two main things that come with this backup files when we have backup files traditionally we think of those as we need them so that we don't lose our data that's one use of them but another use of them is that we can use the backup files to restore our data to a prior point in time and we can use the backup files to set up separate company files so that we can practice with having a sandbox to kind of practice with so first if we think of it as just having secure data the argument from Intuit is the online version is actually better they say because your data is stored on the Intuit servers and the Intuit servers are have been triple backed up and everything so the servers should actually be more secure than your computer and therefore the online version is more secure than the desktop version now that may be true but I still think the desktop version can be pretty secure if you properly do your backups very secure you know if you properly do your backups because what you want to do on your backup files is back them up to a separate drive or online in other words you could set up your backups to basically do automatic backups and back them up to say an online cloud or at least a separate external drive so they're not on your hard drive and you have a pretty you have a very secure I would think backup system now the other thing that's a benefit with the static backups on the other hand is that I can make multiple backups so if I'm backing up every night now I have a nightly backup which allows me if there's a problem to restore to any point that I want now the online is trying to implement some of this ability to restore to a prior point and if you get the advanced online I think they have the ability to do that but it's still not as easy as with the with the desktop version plus if I want to restore the online version it might actually rewrite the file that I'm in so if I want to go back to a prior point it's going to rewrite the file well what if I don't want to actually go back to the prior point but I want to look at the prior point to see what's different and then to see whether or not I want to go back to it it's going to be more difficult to do that if you only have one company file whereas if you can make multiple files with the desktop it would be like making a separate word document or a separate excel file and then having a sandbox to test out with it to see what went wrong so it's not just that I might want to restore to that date it might be that I want to see what happened from that date or when something happened from what date to the current date when did it go wrong and troubleshoot and that way the static backup files are better to do that with also if you have an online course like we're doing here then the static backup files possibly can be used to jump forward in our practice problem for example allowing you to have the exact data that we have on our side without having to work through a very long practice problem in order to get there so from a practice standpoint from a sandbox standpoint and that kind of stuff the static backup files are actually still have a lot of advantages over the online storage on the server advantages that possibly are not simply just the losing of the data but rather using the backup files in other ways that can be very useful so the desktop version as I mentioned with the backup and multiple company files those being the major reasons the desktop version is great to practice with so it's great for a course like even if even if they got rid of the desktop version which again they're going to keep the the enterprise version you would think so it's still good to practice with and will be in use because the enterprise version has sustained layout in essence as the other desktop version it just has more functionality in certain areas but even if they got rid of all of it it would still be a great tool to practice with because of the fact that you can have multiple files because of the fact that we can restore these backup files to a certain point in the practice problem. Take that online desktops not KOJet just through like an a do a kick up hold on I got in the street fighter in any case the desktop has a consistent design whereas the online version has a changing design either of these can be seen as a pro or a con depending on how you look at it but from the desktop perspective even if you go back many years into the past and look at the layout of the desktop version it will look quite similar to the layout currently in 2024 so from a consistency standpoint that's great because you know where things are located and that's not going to change all that much whereas with the online version it's changing all the time advocates of the online version would say that their ability to change it because it's a web-based type software allowing them to do kind of a B type of testing helps them to optimize the layout of the online website and make changes to improve it so again there's pros and cons with it in my opinion I've used the desktop version for a long time the layout system is well laid out in my opinion it has the drop downs that are similar to what you saw in microsoft word before they have the ribbon with the online version the layout is fine as well but it has changed a lot and some of the changes you can argue as to whether they're being optimized changes or they're kind of catering to a certain audience they've changed things like the terminology for example they often move buttons around and whatnot so hopefully they get to a position where they find the ideal or optimized website but my feeling is that they're never going to get there because the developers always want to make changes they get paid to make changes to the website so I think that might be driving the fact that they're making changes basically for change's sake so I think it's always been a good it's always been easy to use in my opinion but you have to basically deal with the fact that they're going to move stuff around from time to time they're going to name things differently and you just go with the flow man everything the functionality will still be there but it might be located somewhere else and they might be using some new trendy language for a time period and whatnot and and that's the way it goes desktop version enterprise may fit special needs like inventory tracking better so with the desktop version you have certain things that the desktop version is better at one of them might be the inventory tracking we'll talk about some of the specializations with the desktop version which might be more applicable to certain types of industries as they get larger typically right so that's why the enterprise version of the desktop doesn't look like it's really in danger of being canceled whereas the non-enterprise or the or the standard quick books for smaller companies is the one where more questions come up as to what is happening with into it based on kind of like their marketing strategy which clearly seems to be guarantee people and steering people in that section of the market towards the online so with the online also has its own special kind of cases which we'll look at in a second it's really good with integrations oftentimes because it's a web-based software and with the bank feeds are things that it's quite good at more difficult to work from different locations so if you're getting the desktop version it's going to be on your computer so it's located on your computer and therefore it's going to be a little bit more difficult to work remotely whereas the online version being cloud based is going to be easier to log in remotely now again there's pros and cons with this because if you're in a bigger company with the desktop version you might be able to set it up so that you could still have remote access to the to it even though it's going to be on a server for example or something like that or on a static computer as opposed to on into its servers whereas the online is on the into it servers and therefore it's going to the hub point is going to be on the into it servers some people would probably argue that the desktop version is more secure that it's not on the into it servers if you have a solid kind of setup process because they would have to actually hack into your computer basically to get access to your files whereas if you're on the online version you would think that if they can log into your account then they can get into your file so that the server if of into it is secure but you want to make sure you have the double multifactor authentication and all that kind of stuff set up so that people can't access your account that way by basically having the password and and that kind of thing also you have to be careful of course connecting to the cloud based software from wi-fi areas and and and and that kind of thing so even if you want to do that you want to be careful of accessing your data from like a coffee shop you want to make sure you have the vpn and and all that kind of stuff if you're accessing sensitive information from different locations whereas if you're on a desktop version i think it works quite well if you just do your bookkeeping and you just have it on your computer so that you're not accessing it from anywhere in the world it's on your actual computer actual computer and again so that could possibly lead you to feel a little bit more secure about it but in any bank feed may be a little more difficult to use versus the online version connects to the bank very well so both of them have the ability to connect to your banks be able to pull in the data from the banks to your system however because the online version is online it's more of a seamless type of process to do that so the desktop version is pretty good it's not it works it works almost as well but you might have to take one extra step to say i want you to import the data from the bank feeds and also when you update the software every year you might have an added step to make sure that the bank feeds are properly aligned whenever that happens whereas the online version once you set it up it's pretty much connected pretty nicely add on apps may be more difficult to use for the on for the desktop versus the online for the same reason desktop version you might have access to add on apps that might give you more special features within quickbooks but because it's a desktop software it might not be as easy to integrate certain types of apps whereas if you're on the online version then you might it's easier to set up the online version you would think to be able to be adoptable to other add on type of apps now you want to be careful with what type of add on apps that you're going that you want to be using i think the online version can also lead people to basically do things that they probably that they might not want to do or might want to think about a bit more before using other types of apps and whatnot but so there could be pros and cons with that but in general if if you're trying to look at other integrations within quickbooks with other apps then i then you then you might it might be easier for some of those on the online version of the desktop okay so once we if we choose the desktop version then we get into what kind of desktop versions do we want so the standard desktop is the pro premiere plus so that's going to be kind of equivalent to quickbooks online but the desktop version that's the one that's for small to mid-sized businesses which is as you would think into it seems to be steering those types of businesses towards the online and that's where the question comes up are they trying to steer everybody off of it and then cancel it right so that and so but it's basically the same format as the enterprise but the enterprise is for the more advanced companies or bigger companies that have specialized type needs so so it's still good to use any desktop version if you want to learn it because the advanced version the enterprise version doesn't look like it's going away because it's going to be there and all of the normal stuff that's in pro premiere is also going to be in the larger packages it's just that the larger packages have more specializations so within the enterprise version then you have options such as the general business contractor so they have enterprise that's going to be set up more specifically towards the industry of contractors manufacturing and wholesale so there's special needs with like contractors because they might have like a job cost kind of system for example and manufacturers might have a process cost system which have special types of needs as well as wholesale versus retail sales not for profit could have specialized needs so at least the terminology for not for profits is going to be sometimes different than the for profit professional services and then retail and so these are kind of like the subgroups of quickbooks enterprise that you can go into so again the general tree that you want to think about when thinking about the software is what company do I want to be working with comparing like into it to other providers of the software and then within the company or even this might be your first question do I want to use online cloud based software or desktop software do I want the software on my computer or do I want it on the cloud and as you think about that question you could apply that then also to the different companies like into it versus other companies cloud based versus desktop desktop and then and then if you decide on a particular type such as we hear on the desktop if we choose the desktop then the question is what kind of desktop version do I want these are going to be a lot more similar than if I'm looking desktop versus cloud based desktop versus cloud based very different they're almost like completely different software you almost think of them as though they were different companies right because they're going to be very different look and feel although they'll have the same kind of general functionality when you get into just the desktop then you're kind of looking as though you you have one tier level and then they're giving you perks as you as you change that's one way you can kind of think of it we're not going into the different aspects of the online version because this course is focused on the desktop so now we're on the desktop version and you can say well you have the basic version and then you can kind of upgrade to the enterprise if you upgrade to enterprise then you have specialized fields that you could have just your general specialization and you might even be able to specialize above and beyond that as you go into these the more advanced enterprise users usually for larger companies with specialized needs


Thank you. Hopefully the audio is working. I can hear it. I'm changing slides because of my nose. A bit of an introduction. As we heard there, I'm a volunteer at Aerospace Bristol, which is a museum in the north of Bristol that covers a lot of the history of Aerospace in Bristol and the future of Aerospace in Bristol as well. It's very, very much worth a visit, and I will give you a little bit more detail on that. If you need to ask questions, if you're interested in more details about it, I can talk about this for hours. I'll be probably hanging around afterwards and you can ping me on Twitter if you want to ask there as well. This is our aircraft. This is the aircraft that our wing came from. You can just about see the highlighting on the wing there, the one that's nearest to us. That's the chunk of wing that we've got, and this was an aircraft that we had... It was born in north Wales, as with all of the wings from Airbus aircraft. It grew up, I'm told, in either Hamburg or Toulouse. I thought it was Toulouse, but it may have been delivered from the sighting thing converter, and I've had some information where I wasn't sure about that recently. This is where it lives now. It's an interactive exhibit. As you can see, it's behind glass, and we'll talk about why. It sits there, it has interactive elements on the screen in front of it, and the idea is that it shows you a little bit about why the movable surfaces on the leading edge and the trailing edge at the front and the back, why they are there, what they do, and this talk is going to talk a little bit about that, but also it's going to go through a little bit more of the detail of actually how we made it work. That's not something which we would normally do in the museum, but we thought it might be of interest here. Before we really get into it, I need to go through some thanks. Obviously huge thanks have to go to Airbus. They gave it a lot of hardware, support, direct aid, indirect support. It really was thanks to Airbus that this is actually possible, and I was by no means the leader. That credit very much goes to Judy, but also Stuart, Keith, Doug, Steve, there was John and Andy who gave us a lot of support on-site as well in many others including Gosher and lots of other early careers people at Airbus who gave huge help to help the planning and the setup and the cleaning and the fabrication and everything. Also the other volunteers and the staff at Aerospace Bristol including Paul you will see in the video if it works and all the visitors and the patrons and the sponsors and the funders and everything that actually lets the museum function and keep it open and running. As I said, it's well worth a visit. It's in North Bristol. It's only about maybe over an hour away from here. It's just off the M4. So as I said, if you have time and you're looking for somewhere to go on the way back and if you're heading in that direction, I would recommend it. So we'll start off a little bit because the principle that the rig tries to show and it's really talking about how the wing can act a bit bigger than it actually is. The principle is that a wing for cruise will be relatively small. A wing that's sized for cruise is going to be relatively small because the aircraft flies very fast. It is very high up usually, but the speed is such that it wouldn't need to be particularly large. However, if we didn't have any of these moveables we would need the wing to be significantly larger to allow it to actually perform at landing. There is a limit to how hard the wing can work and if we were to size the wing for landing with it being clean with no moveables at all, you'd end up with something that looks something like the funny looking aircraft on the side to the right there and it wouldn't be particularly practical. One of the things that's useful is that if we have the high lift devices what that means is that we can actually get much, much closer to a wing that really is optimised for cruise. It allows the wing to work much, much harder and to allow the aircraft to fly slower which gives you significantly safer operations at low speed for takeoff and landing and it also means then that you can optimise the wing for performance where you really need it to be optimised which is in the cruise where it's going to burn most of its fuel and spend most of its time. We're going to a little bit about how that actually works because lift and stall are the bits that we very much have to come next. What you're seeing when the aircraft is flying is that it's changing the momentum of the air. Now I should point out this is the explanation that I've tend to found most useful to explain these concepts to people. There are a million and one different explanations of how lift is produced and it is frequently wrong even in physics textbooks perhaps especially in physics textbooks. Many of these things are actually all true at the same time, some of them are not so accurate. But the way I've tend to found most useful is that fundamentally what you're doing is you're taking some of the air and if we consider the air to be static as the wing moves through it, often at an angle you're deflecting the air down a little bit you're changing its momentum and when you change the air's momentum down a little bit you're pushing down on it you're changing its momentum that means there's a force there and Newton's third law tells you that there's an equal and opposite force in the opposite direction and that is lift. It's also a little bit of the drag that you would see as well. The amount of lift that you're generating is for any given set of conditions going to be proportional to the angle of the wing to the air and as you increase that angle you're going to up to a certain point see that the lift increases but it is only up to a certain point beyond that point the wing isn't going to work the same way it's not going to be able to have the flow following the surface and as a result you're going to see certain changes happen number one is that the rate of which the lift is increasing with the angle starts to drop off you're also going to see that drag starts to increase this is where the aircraft is stored strictly what it means is if you're doing it in flight test you slow down, you slow down, you slow down you increase the incidence increase increase increase at some point the aircraft can no longer maintain straight and level flight it will start to descend and that's the stall that's where you reach your peak of lift an airliner normally oh crikey excuse me an airliner will normally never want to operate in that regime you need to keep a long way away from it because it's not particularly safe and what the high lift devices do is that they actually delay the onset of that point if we go a little bit into what's happening this is an example of there are many different types of stall but this is an example of one of the things that you can see in the chart what you can see is that the lift as I said is increasing as the incidence, the angle to the flow is increasing if you're at A, the flow is pretty much smooth as you're going up to the point where it starts to get to point B there is some separation to the flow the flow is no longer following the surface it's very stirred up and as you get up to C that is the maximum lift there's a significant amount of separation there but it is still producing a huge amount of lift when you get to D the wing is fully stalled and most of the flow is not following the upper surface at all so what we see is that we want to do if we want to fly slower is we want to push that point C up as high as we can get it and this is what you can see here this is from a book by Egbert Torrenbech Aerospace Initial Design Books and what you see is the clean wing is the one that you would see if you don't have the movables you can see that characteristic of the lift increasing and lifting increasing up to a point if you deploy slats this is the leading edge devices and you'll see some examples of what they look like in the next slide to come when you have those slats deployed what happens is that the maximum lift that you can achieve goes up quite a lot and that's very useful because that means that you can generate more lift or more usefully you can generate the lift you need to fly at a lower speed flaps do something slightly different flaps are deployed from the trailing edge from the rear of the wing and they give you more lift for any given incidents and they're useful because what that means is that the pilot can actually get a significantly better view of the runway because if you have it tipped up like that you might recall Concord which is also Aerospace Bristol the last Concord to fly Alpha Foxtrot is Aerospace Bristol as well the droop knows is one of the things that they had to use for that aircraft because Concord has an enormous angle to the flow and that allowed the pilots to actually see the runway flaps on a conventional aircraft allow the aircraft to be at a lower incidence when it's approaching into landing and that gives you a significantly better view of what's going on and so what you can see is when you have both the flaps deployed the lift is very very significantly increased and it happens at a relatively low angle all of this means that you get significantly better performance at takeoff so if we have a look at actually what that looks like the slats are deployed with on this aircraft along a circular track and you have a drive cog which will literally just grind forward and push the flap down the track what's happening is it's coming out it opens up a slot between the nose of the airfoil that's fixed and the movable slot and this slot is what re-energises the flow over the top of the wing and allows it to retain attachment to the surface the other thing that happens is that it increases the camber it increases the it increases the the bend of the airfoil at the front again it means that you're not having a very very sharp transition around that nose it spreads it out a little bit which means that it's easier for the wing to retain its function on the trailing edge the flaps have and again there are many many different types of these devices this is what's used on this aircraft what you see is that there is a lever that's driven by a shaft and the lever pushes forward and pushes the slap sorry the flap down a track and so you can see as it goes from clean down to deployed the flap is both moving down the track and changing in its angle and again you can see one of these slots that you've got now my drawing isn't particularly precise there I've actually drawn the I don't know whether the pointer is going to be visible yes it is but here I've actually done something wrong which is I've got a convergent divergent slot there which is not a good thing to have it will tend to produce bad effects but this slot is also there so again you can see it's making the wing physically bigger but it's also increasing the angle and it's creating this multi element wing which allows it to break down the lift into multiple chunks which allows it to keep working and keep effective significantly longer it's quite interesting when you see the kinematic if you'll see a little bit of it on the video I have coming up what you'll see is that the aircraft that the flap comes back when it comes back it actually gets to the end of its travel and as it gets to the right bit it actually comes back up the track a little bit as well so it isn't a uniform motion down the track it actually comes back slightly when it gets to its final position that's all the theory this is all a little bit about the a little bit about the practicalities of making this work this exhibit has to run 24-7 it's one of these things that we didn't want to have to spend a lot of time doing maintenance because we're the volunteers that are going to have to do it and we didn't want it to come to a lot of cost for the museum on the aircraft the movements are powered hydraulically and because we're not stupid we decided that we weren't going to use that because hydraulic control is crazy complicated what we did instead was to go with something electrical but we do use all of the existing driveshaft hardware that's on the aircraft and all of the other parts are genuine genuine aircraft parts one of the things that we had to do when we were preparing this was to actually get a hold of parts to replace the parts that weren't there because when this aircraft was taken out of service like every aircraft that's taken out of service nearly everything that's reusable is taken off and effectively not recycled but reused on other aircraft and that qualification process is what allows you to reuse those parts safely everything has to have the paperwork done the inspections have to be done to make sure that they're safe we managed to get a hold of one of the parts we had to buy it on the open market and we were very lucky and that we managed to get a hold of it before someone had done the paperwork which meant that it was significantly cheaper than if we had to buy a real aircraft part but what we need to be able to do is to actually drive these surfaces to specific positions we want to be able to show people the position that's similar to what you'd have on takeoff where the flap is not fully deployed and on landing where both the flaps and the slats are fully deployed we want to make sure that we don't bounce off the end of the hard limits that wouldn't harm the aircraft parts at all but our parts might well explode because suddenly going from moving to being stopped we weren't convinced that was good for something that was going to run and run and run and run because our parts aren't anywhere near as expensive and heavy duty as the aircraft parts so the control system had to be set up for that this is where the control boxes are they live on the wall underneath the root of the wing there are two control boxes and they're both completely identical the only difference is that the software is different and as you can see they're transparent so everybody can have a laugh at our wiring and it also means that the museum can actually explain to people as part of their education activities what the different parts do you can see two sets of power supplies two sets of controllers and so on and we'll talk a little bit about our experience with those at the end probably the most important part of this is that though this is the emergency stop this is on the wall it's accessible from outside of the enclosure safety was one of the things that we really really really had to think about with this rig it is potentially extremely dangerous it has parts that move powerfully and without warning it has rotating shafts which give me shivers it has parts that come very close together such as crush hazards normal operation is that no one will be inside the enclosure at all and ideally you only go in to start it there's a timer where you can then exit and then when it's running there's no one there at all obviously there are people who are going to be there for maintenance but these are only going to be authorised and trains people so basically myself and the other members of the team start up does require access you actually have to push a button to confirm that you want it to go and again one of the reasons we did that is to make sure that that person can ensure that there is no one in a position to be harmed by it when it starts moving and again one of the other things we had is that there's no volt release switches on both of the systems so if the power goes down it will shut down but then when the power comes back up it will not start again you have to go in and start it manually this is a little bit about the control system logic I've been visited by the famous EMF spiders the hard limits are what we don't want to hit so in advance of those we have soft limits that are set up by homing switches those are actually directly attached to the motor controllers it's a Polulu simple motor controller that's actually quite nice because it means that even if our control system was broken we were never going to violate that soft limit because the control system with the firmware built into the controller would simply stop it what happens is that when you switch it on the system will look for a inductive proximity sensor which will detect whether it's in a home position and there's a metal plate on both of the surfaces that will tell you whether you're in this homing range that we've got there what it will do is if it detects the presence of that plate it will go out until it doesn't and then refine the edge and if it doesn't have the edge there if it's not active it will grind in until it finds it this means that we always know however you start it up as long as the motor is wired with the correct orientation it's always going to be able to find its way to home and then the cruise position is a little bit in board of that homing position the takeoff setting is a bit further out and then the landing position is near to the end of the soft limit of travel and then the ground shaft rotations to do that so there's nothing particularly unusual in there but we'll talk a little bit about how we actually do that this is the inboard edge of the slat looking out towards the rest of the museum you can see there a section of BA146 fuselage so you can see the cross section of that with all of the stuff that's under the floor and all of the things that you normally can't see behind the lining of the cabin you can see there also the tube which is what supplies hot air for the anti-icing system which obviously we don't need because it sits in the museum in board of that is where the motor is and this is probably one of the first bits that we were initially really doubtful about these are motors that we bought from a company that supplies motors for robot building there may well be ones that are very similar to that running around the site they're basically just cordless drill motors attached to a planetary gearbox and we expected these to be incredibly unreliable and difficult to deal with and they do fail but not very often those are just keyed into the existing shaft which you can see starts where that four lugged part is here this is the first slat gearbox when you move outboard of the motor and this then feeds into the gear slowing it down significantly which drives the slat itself but the shaft movement is continuous along the whole of the leading edge one of the things that you'll be able to see if the video works is that there's a little bit of the slat shaft which is still running right at the end because our wing is only a section of wing and it actually goes further out this is the slat track itself and this is where you can see some of the control hardware on this side you can see the the homing switch this is just a micro switch which is attached to the motor controller and this is the inductive proximity sensor with the home plate so that is active right up until the end of the travel and so this basically it will retract if you were to start it up in this position it would come back until it found the edge of that plate there this is the slat rotation counter we originally did that optically and it worked perfectly in our rig but with the usual integration hell problems that you always have something like this we found it didn't work on site we didn't really ever chase down why we thought it was an interaction with the lighting system that they had there because it seemed to cause a problem even if we were running things just on the bench the other problem we had was that the shaft actually bounces around quite a lot so maintaining the alignment for the optical sensors was a little bit hairy as well this basically just uses another one the proximity sensors and we were able to use the fact that the slat shaft actually has these four bolts holding the different sections together we could simply mount it there and use the fact that we had effectively four counts per rotation which was actually a very good resolution for us so we simply use one of those those have been very good as well they are designed for PLCs so they don't run at five volts and that's a problem because as the title says we were using hard winos but a voltage divider did sort that out and it was actually very very useful first of the shaft you can see going outboard and there are multiple tracks per slat this is the outboard edge and what you can see here this is the bit of the drive shaft which would go out to the remaining bits of the wing that aren't there on the rig this is the flap and again going inboard so we've just come across from the leading edge to the trading edge and you can see all of the hardware we showed so this is the track it's all labelled up on the rig so people can see what it is there's a lever in the gearbox here and then this is the rest of the hardware the carriage slides up and down this is one of the outboard gearboxes you can see it's a really really substantial piece of kit it's very very heavy because it has to take enormous flight loads and then there's another one inboard what you can see here is you're starting to see some of the extra hardware we've had it and there'll be a detail of that here this is the motor and you can see it's another one of exactly the same type although it does have a slightly different gearing because the number of rotations for a full travel is not the same leading edge to trading edge this is the flap home sensor and it's the same thing that we had before where there's a plate attached to the lever which allows it to find that edge and on this slightly different angle that's the home sensor again but also the stowed limit switch and that's again just fascinating to hear we did at various points try to drill holes into the rig because it's never going to fly again and we have after blunting many many many many many very expensive drill bits we found that there is some kind of alien technology alloy being used and we decided that we were just going to glue it in place instead and that's been fairly reliable with appropriate surface treatment this is a video that I hope will work showing the slats moving and the flaps moving in the background you can see John there who's holding the brand new pendant controller, manual pendant controller who's going to be able to who's actually controlling this movement you can see the shaft spinning and it's continuous all the way from the inboard right out to where you can see at the outboard edge the socket for where the drive shaft would continue and then this is the flaps moving inboard you can see that that movement just starts to move out a bit before it starts to pull it in because it's an over centering link as it comes up we move around to a different angle you can see underneath the spoilers which we had initially thought that we might have moving as well and then decided that that was going to be extremely complicated and decided not to but you can see the shaft rotating and the remains of the systems the wires and the pipes which are all there from the actual aircraft hardware and that's the movement finished oh thank you it wants to play again what did we learn we power it with an Arduino Mega and it's actually really reliable we didn't expect it to be we thought that hobbyist hardware wouldn't really work for this kind of length of time we only killed the only ones that died were the ones that we killed by doing something stupid as we mentioned there are some parts which use 9 volts logic and applying those to pins doesn't help the motor controllers have been really really good you can talk to them via USB there's a really really good configuring program that you can use to set the limits and the speeds and acceleration for something that's driving a brushed motor it's really really flexible and the fact that you have these firmware limit switches which gives an extra layer of the protection onion that we might wish to exploit is really really handy because it meant that even if we did something really bone headed with our code it was actually going to not break the rig these displays that we had attached to the shield that provides the interfaces into the arduinos they do die after a couple of years we found that the backlights failed and that was on everyone that we'd used they also when that happened seemed to start causing some hard to trace glitches that went away when we took the displays off we can diagnose the rig with USB when we're there and so having these displays was kind of not really required anyway so both of them run in quotes headless now and so we've never really needed them but those were not a brilliant choice these inductive sensors are absolutely excellent I think they're designed for PLCs for prologic controllers for factory automation they're very very reliable they work very well we were glad that we decided to use those for all of our position sensing really the power supplies were LED lighting power supply drivers they're 24 volts they were also very very reliable the fans did fail after I think 3 or 4 years so the fans were replaced by the the electricians at the museum and then the supplies are fully functional again and the motors this was probably the bit that we were most nervous about to begin with we were really concerned that those were going to die their brushed motors there was going to be a lot of electrical noise and that was something which we did have to deal with but appropriate use of jokes and capacitors and so on dealt with that we also had quite a lot of shielding of the wiring as well which basically meant that the problems in normal operation were fine we really expected though that we were going to have to go to maybe a brushless system for something that was going to be running this long and in the end what we found is it works pretty much flawlessly they do die the brushes do fail but they are very very very cheap which means it's very easy for the museum to just go and buy another one and then swap it out so a little bit about the museum I'm not going to go into a huge amount of detail but one of the big aims of the museum is that they want to actually advance learning skills and training in science technology engineering design showing the conservation of the heritage of aviation that Bristol has which goes back a very very long time right back it's very pretty much to the dawn of aviation they've got the new conservation centre which is now open where you can go in and see some of the conservation work that the museum does actually happening there's a freighter, there's a Bristol bowling brick around the place as well there's other things which they're working on to do with Concord one of the other things obviously that is there is the last Concord to fly Concord Alpha Foxtrot I think the nose actually droops and they were braver than us and I think actually did use the original hydraulic systems to make it work there's also a lot of other things there there's far too much for me to list so I would very much recommend a visit and thank you for your attention as I say I'll be around if you have questions or ping me on Twitter


Proudly, we hail. From New York City, where the American stage begins, here is another program with a cast of outstanding players and featuring Anzey Strickland as Sergeant Benny Krupke. Public service time has been made available by this station for your Army and your Air Force to bring you this story as Proudly, we hail the Women's Army Corps. Our story is entitled, When the Clock Strikes. This is the story about a woman who enlisted and is still serving her country as a member of the Women's Army Corps. After this important message, our first act curtain will rise. Love and loyalty to our country have never been the exclusive attributes of men, and throughout our nation's history, women have given indisputable evidence of their devotion. Now, more than ever before, the services of women are urgently needed to undertake hundreds of jobs that are available in the Women's Army Corps. So why not get an early start with a job that gives you the feeling of being of real service to your country. You'll enjoy that feeling in the Women's Army Corps, and you'll be doing a job that will be a little different every day. You'll be getting the finest specialized training in the world in the career field in which you are best qualified. So don't let this opportunity pass you by. Remember, today young women between the ages of 18 and 34 can best serve their nation by working side by side with the men of the services. So if you want to share in the defense of the American way of life, join the Women's Army Corps now. Stop in at your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station and learn how you can serve best in the modern Women's Army Corps. And now with Amsy Strickland in the role of Sergeant Kropke, your Army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production when the clock strikes. Let me tell you a little secret about the newspaper game. It's something I learned the hard way. You can knock yourself out trying to land a good story, trying to beat all the other sheets with a scoop. You can whittle yourself down to nothing pounding the streets and asking questions poking your nose in everybody's business. And you may end up with a story. Chances are, though, you won't. The story you want to write, the story that you think is important, a lot of times it's right there at the end of your nose only you're too busy being front page to recognize it. That's how it was with the series I'm writing now. I didn't shake down any authorities looking for it. I didn't have to dig into old filing cabinets and trucks. The series was handed to me lock, stock and barrel by a slim brown eyed girl in an Army uniform. I even got a free cup of coffee, too. I dropped in at the high school that day tracking down some information about the football coach. It was during lunch period, so I went down to the cafeteria looking for it. I asked a couple of the kids if they'd seen him. Everyone gave me the blank stare. Kids can be like that when they think you're treading on their private property. I was cold and a little mad and I wanted a cup of coffee. Only the coffee line was a mile long. At least that's how it looked to me. I sat down at the table and studied the situation and desperation. When I heard someone say, You look like you could use a cup of coffee. I don't have a priority or whatever you need. Well, how about taking this? I really don't want it. Well, thanks a lot, but I can get some of the drugs too. No, seriously, I really don't want it. It'll just go to waste. Um, sugar? One, no cream. I really appreciate this. Most of the students have been giving me the fishy stare and... And what? Well, you're certainly not a student. No, I mean the Women's Army Corps have been for quite a few years. Back seeing old places, old familiar faces? No, as a matter of fact, I've never seen this school before. I'm here on an assignment. You see, I work in recruiting. I go around to the schools and talk to the students during assembly. Tell them what we're doing. What it's like being in the Women's Army Corps. Why we need them. The whole story. That's interesting.  I'm a reporter with a post. I'm Betty Crumpley. Not the story of yours. Could I hear it? Oh, it's nothing spectacular, Mr. Jaffe. As a matter of fact, you'd probably think it was very ordinary. And again, I might not. I'd like to hear it. You haven't got a priority. Well, here's how the story goes anyhow. Going to war was about the last thing I had in mind back in 1941. I was living with my family in Chicago then. And being the oldest of five girls, I had my hands full 24 hours a day. Pauline was always forgetting where she left her beret. Virginia and Gloria battle constantly over their collection of milk bottle caps. And Carol came home every day from school with scuff knees and a soil pinafore. There wasn't much spare time in those days to see what was happening on the other side of our front door. But war doesn't stay on the outside of any door. War walks right into your living room. Like it walked into our living room on that particular Sunday, December 7th. Pearl Harbor. Gloria, honey, I think you better go next door and get mommy and daddy. Mrs. Peterson hasn't got a radio. They'll want to know what we've just heard. The next months were crammed with all sorts of new activity. Volunteer organizations, war bond drives. The boys I knew in our neighborhood had left to join the army or the Air Force. When the women's army auxiliary corps was formed, I thought my chance had come. What? Two years had to pass before I was 21 and able to meet the age requirements at that time. Two long years. And then the week after my 21st birthday. Why exactly do you want to join the WAC, Betty? Well, it's a feeling I can't really put into words, Lieutenant Kenyon. I've been doing a lot of war work, but well, I want something more. It's really very hard to explain. Do you think you can adjust yourself to army routine? Isn't easy. Oh, yes, I do. How much time will you require to straighten out your affairs at home? I've had two years already, Lieutenant Kenyon. I won't need any more time. We must be kidding. No one gets up at this hour. We do. We've got exactly five minutes to make revelry. After you, Private McCarthy, who you'll end up being a sergeant, Private Krupke, I know the type. Okay, let's go. Basic training at Daytona Beach. It was November 1943. And like the Lieutenant said, it wasn't easy. The sky was a thin milk gray when revelry sounded. And the long day that stretched before us was filled with classes with special training and drilling. In the beginning, you were tired, dead tired, but you didn't talk about it. You didn't have time to talk about it. You were too busy learning the routine of army life. I learned a lot. And so did my roommate, Marge McCarthy. Another ten years? Maybe I'll get used to all this stuff. Marge, what are you going to specialize in? Sleeping. Long-distance sleeping. What else? I thought I'd let the army tell me we'll be through our basic in a few more weeks. I wonder if we'll go overseas. I mean, right from here. Do you care? I don't know. I hadn't given it much thought. Maybe you better start as of right now. Maybe I should. But I think I'll let it go until morning. Me too. Night, Betty. Night. Overseas. What did you say? It'll keep. Night, Marge. The days. The weeks passed. And finally, the day we'd all been looking forward to. The day we graduated from basic training. We were all so proud and happy, but there was a certain sadness too. In the service, something very special and very wonderful happens to you. You meet a lot of new people. And almost overnight, you discover that you have a lot of new friends. Friends you'll know for the rest of your life. Friends you work with who share the same hopes, the same dreams. And when you find suddenly that you're leaving them, you realize how much you'll miss them. All of them. Marge and I were both sent to the third Air Force headquarters in Tampa, Florida to work in the finance office. It was work I knew and liked. And our barracks were very comfortable. Except for certain unwelcome intruders. For my bed. I wonder why those darn chickens go straight for your bed when they sneak in our barracks. I don't know. I do wish our neighbors across the road would keep better tabs on their livestock. I expect to see one of their cows in here any day. Come on, let's snap into it and get cleaned up. We've got a date, or have you forgotten? Well, that's one thing I never forget. Private McCarthy. Drew Field and McDale Field were not too far from our headquarters. And we met a lot of the boys who were training to fly B-17s and B-25s. They were a wonderful bunch and we had lots of fun together. Come on, Betty, let's go outside and soak up some of this water in the light. All right, Skip. Oh, dear, Skip, we've had a lot of fun. And it's almost over. You and me, anyway. Um, you'll always be careful, won't you, Skip? Just as careful as you can be in the tail of a B-17. Look, kid, don't worry, we're a real good outfit. Great pilots, great navigators, and especially great gunners like yours truly, Skip Harris. That's your service, ma'am. Skip, I'm going to do something about this. What are you talking about? You moon-struck? No, I want to do what you're going to do. I want to go overseas. You want to what? Oh, now look, you're doing a big job right here. Stay put, baby. No, Skip, I'm not going to stay put. Oh, sure, I know our job is important here, but I think the same job would be doubly important overseas. I'm going to speak to Lieutenant Allen tomorrow. What did the Lieutenant say then? Only that he tried, Skip. Uh-huh. Look, Betty, if you should, uh, get overseas, well, I mean, if you and I should meet in maybe London or Paris... Uh, you still owe me a debt. Well, I'll remember. Make sure you do, too. Skip? Yeah? You'll write to me? Come on, let's go, Don Juan. What's the matter? Is there a war on or something? Take care of yourself, Betty. Goodbye, Skip. You take care of yourself, too. Because, well, just in case you don't know it, there is a war going on. That's how Skip and his outfit moved out to fight. I don't have to tell you I missed him, and I wanted more than ever to get overseas. A few days later, it happened. Special order number 934... My overseas orders! Yes, I had my wish. My overseas orders. I was glad. But again, I had to say goodbye to many wonderful friends. She can... What'll I do without you? Don't be silly, Mart.  None of the other girls are leaving yet, and we'll meet again. I know we will. You're right, Betty. I guess I'm just jealous. I wish I were going with you. Well, soldier girl, good luck. So long. Ramsay Strickland featured in the role of Sergeant Betty Kropke in the proudly-we-hail production When the Clock Strikes will return in just a moment for the second act. Here is a most important message for young women listening to this radio program. If you're between the ages of 18 and 34 and qualify, you can prove that this is a woman's world, too. How? By enlisting in the WAC, Women's Army Corps. By joining right now when you're needed most and when the opportunities for advancement are greatest, you'll be serving your country well. And yourself, too. You'll have opportunities for some of the finest specialized training in the world. Training which will serve you well should you elect to return to civilian life. You'll enjoy the same pay, allowances, medical care, vacations, and opportunities for travel as the men in the services. But most of all, you'll have the inner satisfaction of knowing you are serving your country when the need is urgent. So serve as American men serve. Do your part in keeping America strong. Visit your local United States Army at the United States Air Force Recruiting Station and enlist in the WAC Women's Army Corps. Do it now. You are listening to Proudly We Hail. And now we present the second act of When the Clock Strikes. Although my overseas orders had finally come through, I still had a lot of work in front of me before I actually shipped. I was transferred to Fort Oglethorpe called Extended Field Training. This was Daytona Beach all over again, only more so. Again, my life became a scheduled roster, classes, drilling, conditioning to prepare us for assignment overseas. My next stop was Camp Stoneman just outside of San Francisco. There, I received my overseas shots and in a few days, we embarked. For 27 days, we steamed across the Pacific and finally put into port at Brisbane, Australia. I was on the other side of the world. Home was a long way off, but the war was very near. You know, Betty, we should be getting our assignments any day now. Oh, you really think so? I have a private wire direct to headquarters. Oh, Francis, I hope you're right. I like kangaroos and things, but enough is enough. Yeah, I know what you mean. Francis, you know, for the first time, I'm really beginning to feel now that, well, maybe I'm a part of this war, not a big part, but I'm not on the outside looking in anymore. Well, I just don't want to find myself right smack in the middle of things, that's all. Isn't that why you joined the way? Let's go see if we can find out any more about our assignments. I was finally shipped to Holandia, Dutch New Guinea, headquarters of all air forces in the Far East. In the many months that followed, I was transferred from place to place, and each time closer and closer to the men who were fighting. We did a strange assortment of jobs, filled all sorts of positions, they all switched board personnel was hard to find, and there was endless correspondence to be typed and filed. But it was all a part of the pattern of our lives, and we loved it. We were doing us. American women were at war in the wax. The war with Japan was drawing to a close, and I shall never forget the day I stood on the sidelines in Nichols Field outside of Manila, when the envoys came to confer with General MacArthur on the terms of surrender. As they stepped out of that plane that had brought them, I felt an overwhelming sense of pride. Against everywhere had bedded together and died for this moment. Yes. I felt proud and grateful too. I had had a chance to play even a small part. And hey, hey, hey, what's up? I've been busy going all the U.S. Aren't you glad? We have been ready. Do you realize that every single wax contingent in the Far East has gone home but us? Been so long. Oh, I wonder how I'll like it. My dear girl, you've been out in the hot sun too long. When I got back to the States, I suddenly felt that I had done my job, and now I should not only return to my family in Chicago, but through the civilian life I'd left so long ago. Oh, sis, you look wonderful. Oh, well, I feel very strange, Gloria. I mean, you don't like that pretty dress? Not at all. Well, it's lovely, but it's years since I've worn anything but a uniform. Well, I guess it's hard to understand how I feel unless you've been in the Army. I'd received my discharge from the wax, and I was told that I had a period of 90 days in which to re-enlist. If I re-enlisted within that time, I could keep my rank and all my rights and benefits. Well, time drifted along, and I was comfortable and happy with my family, but a little disturbed too. I didn't quite know what was bothering me. That is, I didn't know until the 90 days had almost passed. Are you going to take me today? Where, Gloria? Well, you'll remember the parade. Oh, sure, the Army Day Parade. Okay, we'll go if you want to. Well, of course I want to. So do I, I guess. Let's go.  I stood there with my sister, and looked at the throat of the wax passing by. As the colored guard came by, I automatically snapped to attention and almost raised my right arm to salute. I could feel my eyes get wet, my throat catch, and in the next split moment, I knew what had been troubling me. I knew I missed the Army. I knew there was only one thing I wanted. I wanted again to be part of that great team that was marching so proudly by. The next day, I re-enlisted. And my first assignment was Washington, D.C., the Pentagon and the War Department. For a couple of months, I was so glad to be back in service I didn't care what I did or where I was assigned. But once I settled down, I felt the old urge to go overseas. But there were so many girls who wanted overseas service that it took request after request before I got my wish. But finally, my orders came through and I was sent to General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. Corporal Krupke, you're going to work in a section that handles billetting. Oh, what are you using for billets, Captain? Well, what hotels are available, office buildings, and whatever other structures have heat and light. My job was interesting, and I was sent on temporary duty to many other places to do similar work. The Army of Occupation was well run and our relationship with the Japanese was very pleasant. I received my quota of leaves and flew to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Paping, and many other interesting places. But suddenly, without warning, our pleasant, well-ordered routine was shattered. In June of 1950, war broke out in Korea. At ease, girls, at ease. I've called this formation to explain exactly what is expected of us. We have a big job ahead, a job that requires longer hours and exacting application. There will be fewer passes and very little leave. Now, it's going to be tough, but is there anyone here who thinks we can't do it? Good. Let's get to work. Sergeant Krupke, take over. Dad!  I'm knocked out. Yeah. I guess we all are, Mary, but we're not done yet. What do you mean? Well, today a whole bunch of nurses were flown to Korea. We've got to go to the hospital and pitch in tonight. Who said so? Nobody. Nobody's ordered us to do it, but we're all gone. Coming? What do you think? And so the days went. The wax did take over. With the acute shortage of nurses, we did every conceivable kind of job. We wrote letters for the boys, fed and bathed them, changed the beds. We even worked at the rest camps, doing all we could to help the combat weary men. Sergeant Krupke? Oh, yes, sir. Sergeant, we've been all too busy to say many thank-yous, but I want you to know how every one of us is grateful for what you wax have done.  That's the story I tell them, Mr. Jaffee. Well, I warned you before I started. It wasn't front-page news. No, it's not front-page news, Betty, but it's important news. Your story? The stories of the other women like you who are serving their country today in the wax. Doing an important job. I'd like to see what I can do with it, if you don't mind. Mind? I'd be flattered. Well, I'll be in there. Your four sisters, the training you went through, skip, the overseas assignment, your re-enlistment, all the little threads which are part of the pattern, the pattern of the women's army corps. Oh, gee. Oh, you know, I should be getting up to the assembly hall now. The bell's going to ring any minute. I'm glad I came down here, Betty. Glad I didn't have a cup of coffee. There's just one question. All right. You've been in the army about eight years now. You must be approaching the end of your current hitch. Yeah, that's right. In November, my enlistment will be up. Okay, here's a $64 question. You're going to re-enlist? What do you think, Mr. Jaffe? I think yes. Thank you, Amzee Strickland, for a very warm portrayal. Now, here's an important message to the young women of America. Here's a brief word about an opportunity you can't afford to miss. Why not get an early start towards a career with the job that gives you the feeling of being of real service to your country? You'll enjoy that feeling in the women's army corps. And you'll be doing a vital job that's a little different every day. In the women's army corps, you'll get the finest specialized training in the world. So don't let this opportunity pass by. Remember, today, young women between 18 and 34 can best serve their nation by working side by side with the men in the services. Visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station and get all the details today. This has been another program on Proudly We Hail, presented transcribed in cooperation with the station by the United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Service. This program featured Amzee Strickland as Sergeant Betty Crofty. This is Kenneth Bangart speaking and inviting you to tune in to the same station next week for another interesting story on Proudly We Hail.