Members of the Women's Institute had their engineering and design skills tested to the limit by building and flying model aircraft.
Eighteen two-women teams from branches across the county took part in the National Science Week technology workshop at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Didcot, where they spent an hour building the balsa wood and paper single-propeller aircraft from kits. Pausing only for a cup of tea, the women made their Dart models before subjecting them to the ultimate test - finding out if they would fly.
Our picture shows Margaret Palling, left, Oxfordshire WIs' science co-ordinator, and Janet Haylett, of Rutherford Appleton.
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