Word: duraluminum
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...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...