Word: duralumin
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Knee-deep in snow 10,000 ft. up the granite scarp of Lone Peak in the Wasatch Mountains, 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, last week a snowy-haired oldster of 90 named Ed Hamilton fingered a small splinter of duralumin while tears filled his eyes. Tugging at his white beard, he mumbled: "I'm glad. That...
...been merely Hull No. 272. Cried she with faultless diction: "I christen thee Ranger." The hull slipped smoothly down its chute, flopped into the water, stern first, with a loud splash, and ten minutes later workmen swarmed aboard Ranger, warped back to the dock, to step her 163-ft. duralumin mast...
...collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes burned away, their skin and flesh in sizzling tatters...
...came across a 100-yd. scar in the forest which looked as if a giant scythe had slashed diagonally down through the trees. At one end were a few lopped branches, at the other the crunched remnant of The Southerner's cabin. In between was a confetti of duralumin, mail, cloth, hunks of flesh. Part of a wing was wrapped around a tree 40 ft. off the ground. Blood stains began high on tree trunks, gradually descended until they smeared the stumps. Everywhere was the reek of gasoline...
...Oakland, Calif., surrounded himself with technical experts, chartered TWA's original Douglas transport-long used as an experimental "dog-ship"- prepared it for ocean flying experiments. Because of the additional weight, and because the Douglas is a skin-stressed airplane, the windows had to be replaced with duralumin sheeting. Conspicuous atop the cabin was a big loop aerial...