With cooperation by members of design staffs at Preston, Weybridge, and Filton Divisions of British Aircraft Corp, development of postwar aircraft is briefly traced as background for considering factors affecting different parts of airframe, factors influencing choice of material, behavior of materials in service, and economic aspects of material selection; lecture is addressed to user of aircraft materials rather than metallurgist; metals dealt with are light metals, steel, and titanium.
Metals in airframes -- Retreat or advance
Inst Metals -- J
Institute of Metals -- Journal ; 95 , Part 3
1967
15 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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