Auxiliary bonded plywood fuel tanks for aircrafts
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Auxiliary bonded plywood fuel tanks for aircrafts
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Caption: Expendability is the keynote of these bonded plywood auxiliary fuel tanks for uncle Sam's fighting aircraft.
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EXPENDABILITY is the key-
note of these bonded plywood
auxiliary fuel tanks for Uncle
Sam's fighting aircraft. Like
other droppable tanks, they
greatly extend the range of
our fighters, enabling planes
to reach the point of contact with the enemy
with their regular tanks full. When the
auxiliary containers are dropped, the ships
go into combat without any extra weight or
drag to reduce their speed. The tanks il-
lustrated are made by the Duramold process
by the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Cor-
poration in New York. Selected plywood is
bonded with phenol formaldehyde resins and
“cooked” electronically by the radiothermic
process (P.S.M., May '43, p. 56), which fuses
it into a solid material. It is estimated
that the use of these light plywood tanks
enables a plane to carry either an extra
crew member or his weight equivalent in
gasoline and explosives.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-04
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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70
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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. 4, 1944
