Chicago aircraft assembly plant of Douglas Aircraft Co contains heavy timber trusses up to 150-ft spans and 54-ft high laminated timber columns; substituting non-critical materials wherever possible saved 30,000 tons of critical metals; efficient plant layout provides for straight line production of mammoth 4-motored cargo transport planes; illustrated description of construction, layout, boiler plant, paint shop, etc.


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    Title :

    Aircraft plant has 150-ft. Timber trusses


    Additional title:

    Eng News-Rec


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1943


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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