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Wikipedia April 22, 2026 at 08:34 PM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter

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Rosina "Rosie" Bonavita who worked for Convair in San Diego, California.
Correction

This misidentifies Bonavita’s workplace and location. Reliable accounts place Rosina Bonavita at the GM/Eastern Aircraft plant in Tarrytown, New York, not at Convair in San Diego.

Full reasoning

This bullet attributes Rosina Bonavita to Convair in San Diego, California, but multiple sources place her elsewhere.

A Washington Post history article says Bonavita was a riveter working on warplanes at a factory in Tarrytown, New York, and specifically notes that later writers mistakenly put the factory in California instead of New York. La Gazzetta Italiana likewise identifies her as “a riveter at the GM plant in Tarrytown, NY.”

That means the article is repeating a known mislocation: Bonavita is associated with the GM/Eastern Aircraft operation in Tarrytown, not Convair in San Diego.

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The device contained fifteen sensors to collect data on the effects of the flight on future passengers.
Correction

For OFT-2, Rosie did not carry the 15 sensors in her body. NASA says those 15 sensors were used on OFT-1; on OFT-2, sensors were placed on the seat pallet instead.

Full reasoning

This sentence appears in the paragraph about Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2), but NASA’s own descriptions of OFT-2 say the 15 sensors were associated with Rosie’s earlier OFT-1 flight, not carried inside Rosie on OFT-2.

NASA explains that during OFT-1 Rosie was outfitted with 15 sensors. For OFT-2, NASA says the spacecraft’s data-capture ports previously connected to those 15 sensors were instead used to gather data from sensors placed along the seat pallet. NASA’s post about Rosie for OFT-2 also says her role on that mission was to help maintain Starliner’s center of gravity.

So, as written, the article wrongly implies that the OFT-2 test device itself contained 15 sensors. NASA’s official mission descriptions say those 15 sensors belonged to the earlier OFT-1 setup, while OFT-2 used seat-pallet sensors.

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  • What You Need to Know about NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 - NASA

    During OFT-1, Rosie was outfitted with 15 sensors ... For OFT-2, spacecraft data capture ports previously connected to Rosie’s 15 sensors will be used to collect data from sensors placed along the seat pallet.

  • Meet Rosie, Boeing's First Anthropometric Starliner Commander - NASA

    Rosie’s first flight, OFT, provided hundreds of data points ... For OFT-2, she will help maintain Starliner’s center of gravity ... During OFT-1, Rosie was outfitted with 15 sensors ... For OFT-2, spacecraft data capture ports previously connected to Rosie’s 15 sensors will be used to collect data from sensors placed along the seat pallet.

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Royal Oak Memorial Park, Detroit, Michigan
Correction

This location is wrong: Memorial Park and the Michigan WWII Legacy Memorial are in Royal Oak, Michigan, not in Detroit.

Full reasoning

The article places Royal Oak Memorial Park in Detroit, Michigan, but official local sources place the park and memorial in Royal Oak.

The City of Royal Oak’s facilities page lists Memorial Park at 13 Mile and Woodward, Royal Oak, MI, and identifies it as the home of the Michigan WWII Legacy Memorial. The memorial organization’s own site also brands itself as “The Michigan WWII Legacy Memorial - Royal Oak, MI.”

So this is not just a metro-area shorthand issue: the named park and memorial are located in the city of Royal Oak, not in the city of Detroit.

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