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The advantage of welded magnesium on the wing surfaces of planes is that it can be used in thicker sheets than steel and aluminum. This increased thickness has two effects: 1) it lessens surface vibrations which in time will weaken the wing; 2) it simplifies the maze of ribs and...
Doing away with much of this clutter of ribs and spars is a major step in development of the flying wing, for this bodiless plane must have clear wing interiors to make room for passengers, cargo, bombs, Northrop Aircraft built a two-engined flying wing with a 38-ft. span...
> At Douglas Aircraft, there were enough good ideas in the first 500 suggestions to hit the jackpot with cumulative savings of 2,000 man-hours a day-enough to build seven big bombers in a year. A new tooling gadget for milling wing spars cut off 15-20 hours; a...
Her hull, rigging and spars sheathed in ice, the schooner Mary E. O'Hara, of Boston, turned tail to the fishing banks last week and headed for home. On a dark night, in near-zero weather, she thrashed into Boston Channel. A numbed lookout in the bow suddenly shouted...
As a painter Marcel Mouillot's color is almost as brilliant, his draughtsmanship almost as good as the meticulous Pierre Roy, but his subjects are different-not bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms...