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Aerospace materials are materials, frequently metal alloys, that have either been developed for, or have come to prominence through their use for aerospace purposes. These uses often require exceptional performance, strength or heat resistance, even at the cost of considerable expense in their production or machining.
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. The tubes are usually of steel or aluminum.
Airplanes are made of around 800 to 1000 parts that can be recycled, with the majority of them made from metal alloys and composite materials. [1] [2] The two most common metal alloys are aluminum and titanium and the main composite material is carbon fiber. [2] Airplanes are disassembled at aircraft-recycling centers where non-metal components ...
The skin of an aircraft is the outer surface which covers much of its wings and fuselage. The most commonly used materials are aluminum and aluminium alloys with other metals, including zinc , magnesium and copper .
Improper maintenance: undetected metal fatigue: 34 Starboard wing failed outboard of engine 1977-05-14 1977 Dan-Air Boeing 707 crash: Near Lusaka Airport, Lusaka, Zambia Boeing 707: Metal fatigue and aircraft design flaw 6 Structural failure of the right horizontal stabiliser due to metal fatigue and aircraft design flaw 1978-06-26
Wing ribs of a de Havilland DH.60 Moth. In an aircraft, ribs are forming elements of the airframe structure of a wing, especially in traditional construction.. By analogy with the anatomical definition of "rib", the ribs attach to the main spar, and by being repeated at frequent intervals, form a skeletal shape for the wing.
Rohrbach was a pioneer in building airplanes based on the metal stressed skin principle. At the time of the early aircraft production the Versailles Treaty forbade the construction and export of large aircraft in Germany, so Rohrbach set up a Danish company, the 'Rohrbach-Metall-Aeroplan Co. A/S', to build the early Rohrbach aircraft.
Typical ten-inch (25 cm) student slide rule (Pickett N902-T simplex trig) A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for evaluating mathematical operations such as multiplication, division, exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry. It is one of the simplest analog computers. [1] [2]