Big navy transport gliders are molded from wood plastic
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Big navy transport gliders are molded from wood plastic
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Title: Big navy transport gliders are molded from wood plastic
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VISUALIZING the possible use of non-
strategic material in plane construction,
the Navy has ordered 14 gliders built of ply-
‘wood impregnated with resin. Two of these,
carrying 24 men each, will have a wing span
of approximately 110 feet and a gross
weight of 12,000 pounds. Two 12-place
gliders, weighing about 6,500 pounds, will
have a wing span of 70 feet. The remaining
ten are smaller, two-place jobs for training.
The hot-pressed resin-bonded plywood
specified has undergone extensive tests and
been found particularly suited for gliders.
It is fire-resistant, noncorrosive, water-
proof, insectproof, impervious to fungus
growth, and has a long fatigue limit, with-
standing twists, strains, and shakes. Breaks
may be cold-patched in the field or hot-
patched in the shop.
In addition to the training the gliders will
provide, those in the Navy behind the de-
velopment hold that the scientific advance-
ment in plastic construction has already
justified the program. Even the wings and
fuselages of future planes they contend,
may be improved by the experiment.
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Eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1942-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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121-122
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
Popular Science Monthly, v. 140, n. 3, 1942
