Article: Perspectives.

Industry Retrospective from the Historic Pages of Industrial Heating

75 Years Ago

In the production of aircraft, experience has shown that the problem of building a reliable structure having the combination of maximum strength, together with the necessary rigidity, and minimum weight is most satisfactorily solved by the used of heat-treated alloys. High-strength aluminum alloys of the duralumin type and certain alloy steels are the materials most favored at the present time for the construction of all-metal aircraft.

With the recent and present tendency toward all-metal construction, wood and fabric, as materials for aircraft building, are ...

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