Aircraft scale models for use by Army and Navy pre flight instructors
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Aircraft scale models for use by Army and Navy pre flight instructors
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Midget plane factory mass produces models
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Subtitle: Accurately scaled miniatures made of scrap metal roll off lilliputian assembly lines for army use
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AT CONSOLIDATED Vultee Aircraft
Corp., Vultee Field, Calif., Howard and
Harvey Doering, 23-year-old twins, are
turning out planes not more than a few feet
long. Heading a 10-man department, they
are making models of the B-24 Liberator,
the Vengeance dive bomber, and the Valiant
basic trainer for use by Army and Navy
preflight instructors.
From a blueprint, a scaled mock-up is
made—a model whittled from wood. Plaster
casts, made of various parts of the model,
are then used to fashion the necessary dies.
From this point on, only scrap metal—
usually sections of old tin cans—is used in
building the models. Tiny, but extremely
accurate, templates provide the patterns
for cutting the metal. The resulting blanks
are then placed in the dies and subjected to
the pressure of either a bench vise or one
of the drop hammers used in making the
full-size planes.
After the die-formed pieces have been
trimmed, the plane's parts are ready to be
assembled. Joining is done solely by solder-
ing, after which the joints are filed smooth.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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64-65
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 3, 1944
