Word: duraluminum
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...establish a regular trans-Atlantic passenger service, as the culmination of his career. Long before the World War, he worked with the late Count Zeppelin in converting the clumsy blimp into the streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where she was promptly rechristened Los Angeles. After that, he built the Count Zeppelin...
...Crowds at the scene of the wreck stole pieces of the ship's duraluminum frame, pieces of her fabric covering, even pieces of the dead men's clothing. The survivors tried to keep off vandals. Finally soldiers were posted, and had difficulty in restraining the crowd anxious to lay its boards on the wreckage...
...Stout Company makes the all-metal (duraluminum) monoplanes which the Fords have been trying out experimentally as commercial freight carriers for their own business. The Stout plant was reported to have changed hands for about $1,000,000. William B. Stout, founder of the Company, will remain as engineer of the "Stout Airplane Division of the Ford Motor...
...interest of the two Fords in aeronautics end there. They are also backing with large sums of money the Aircraft Development Corporation, which is building the first all-metal airship ever planned. The fabric covering of the ordinary airship is here replaced by a thin covering of sheet duraluminum, perhaps not more than eight thousandths of an inch in thickness, and weighing scarcely more than the usual rubberized fabric. Such a metal covering would render an airship impervious to weather and constitutes a great progress in the art of airship building...