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  2. Aircraft fabric covering - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft fabric covering is a term used for both the material used and the process of covering aircraft open structures. It is also used for reinforcing closed plywood structures. The de Havilland Mosquito is an example of this technique, as are the pioneering all-wood monocoque fuselages of certain World War I German aircraft like the LFG ...

  3. Fixed-base operator - Wikipedia

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    Three Dornier 228 of Aerocardal at the airline's Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport base. A fixed-base operator (FBO) is an organization granted the right by an airport to operate at the airport and provide aeronautical services such as fueling, hangaring, tie-down, and parking, aircraft rental, aircraft maintenance, flight instruction, and similar services. [1]

  4. Tube-and-fabric construction - Wikipedia

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    A stripped down tube and fabric constructed fuselage from a Piper PA-18 Super Cub. Tube-and-fabric construction is a method of building airframes, which include the fuselages and wings of airplanes. It consists of making a framework of metal tubes (generally welded together) and then covering the framework with an aircraft fabric covering.

  5. Marston Mat - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes the sheets were welded together. A typical later PSP was the M8 landing mat. A single piece weighed about 66 pounds (30 kg) and was 10 ft (3.0 m) long by 15 in (0.38 m) wide. The hole pattern for the sheet was produced to allow easier transportation by aircraft, since it weighed about two-thirds as much.

  6. Engineered materials arrestor system - Wikipedia

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    An engineered materials arrestor system, engineered materials arresting system (EMAS), or arrester bed [1] is a bed of engineered materials built at the end of a runway to reduce the severity of the consequences of an aircraft running off the end of a runway. Engineered materials are defined in FAA Advisory Circular No 150/5220-22B as "high ...

  7. Stressed skin - Wikipedia

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    The Zeppelin-Lindau D.I had stressed skin fuselage and wings.. In mechanical engineering, stressed skin is a rigid construction in which the skin or covering takes a portion of the structural load, intermediate between monocoque, in which the skin assumes all or most of the load, and a rigid frame, which has a non-loaded covering.

  8. Cleco (fastener) - Wikipedia

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    Cleco (Cleko) fasteners on an aircraft wing. A cleco, also spelled generically cleko, is a temporary fastener developed by the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company. [1] Widely used in the manufacture and repair of aluminum-skinned aircraft, it is used to temporarily fasten sheets of material together, or to hold parts such as stiffeners, frames etc together, before they are permanently joined.

  9. Stits Playboy - Wikipedia

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    The Playboy was designed to be constructed from either plans or from a series of partial kits. The construction is mixed with the fuselage made from welded steel and the wings built from wood. The aircraft is fabric-covered and incorporates a sliding canopy. The aircraft is unusual in that the low wings are strut-braced. [1]