Word: duralumin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experiments are taking the form of all-metal dirigibles. The Stout Metal Airplane Co. has already built an "air Pullman," christened it Maiden Detroit and put it into passenger work over the city. The vessel is built entirely of a new metal called duralumin, said to be lighter than aluminum yet stronger than steel. Another builder was the Aircraft Development Co. Edsel Ford donated a Dearborn flying field to the two pioneer companies; while the Common Council of Detroit has started to acquire a municipal landing field on the Detroit River...
...different feather from mundane planes (which have wooden hulls, fabric wings, Liberty engines), this aristocratic bird has wings and body of duralumin-a new alloy, light as cork, strong as steel. It carries four passengers, has a special compartment for golf clubs and other week-end breakables. It will go 130 m. p. h., ten times as fast as the proudest, the tallest sailing yacht of bygone days...
...water by the wooden hull of a flying-boat. This means rapid deterioration and the extra weight of the soaked-in water spells less carrying capacity and smaller flying range. The Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. of Keyport, N. J., is doing pioneer work replacing wooden hulls with metal duralumin. To show the Navy what his metal hulls could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle, 2nd, fly from San Juan, Porto Rico, to the docks of the Columbia...
...removed. Between renewals both the inner and outer fabric system have to be constantly repaired. The Airship Construction Co. of Detroit, said to be backed by Edsel Ford, is experimenting with a new form of covering and interior cell, to be built entirely of very thin sheet duralumin, not more than one one-hundredth of an inch in thickness...
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