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.
Aircraft plant has 150-ft. Timber trusses
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 131 , n 17
1943
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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