- Steinway & Sons workers quickly package the unfinished pianos and piano parts and store them in the factory basements, and Steinway & Sons becomes an aircraft-building company.
- General Aircraft Corporation rents one of Steinway & Sons Ditmars factory buildings, to use as a final assembly plant.
- The engineers at Steinway & Sons discover that government drawings of the glider wings, supplied with the contract, are unworkable. Frank H. Walsh and his assistant John Bogyos analyze the drawings and create the proper blueprints.
- The only building wide enough to accommodate the 84-foot span of the glider wings is the old foundry at Riker, and that’s where the Steinway & Sons consolidates the wing manufacture.
- As it happened in the beginning of WWI, Steinway & Sons again begins to hire female workers to replace men drafted to the war. All the women, hired by Steinway & Sons, join the United Piano Workers Union, Steinway Local 102, and pay the union dues, but a clause in their contract specifies that a female worker may not gain seniority over any of the male Steinway & Sons employees drafted to the military service, and can be discharged when a male worker she has been hired to replace returns to Steinway & Sons from the war.