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Aluminum Overcast, B-17G-105-VE, s/n 44-85740, civil registration N5017N, as of August 2024 Aluminum Overcast is not flying. It is in the Eagle Hanger at the Experimental Aircraft Museum in Oshkosh,WI. It is awaiting wing spar repair. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 46 complete surviving airframes in existence.
The fuselage is built with a fiberglass cockpit area, with the fuselage aft of the wing trailing edge made from aluminum. The wing is of Chem-weld bonded aluminum construction, the bonding replacing rivets in an attempt to get a surface as smooth and wave-free as fiberglass. The wing employs a Wortmann FX 67 170/150 airfoil and has flaps. The ...
The 1-24 is of all metal construction, including aluminum wings. [2] [3] The design incorporated some innovative concepts in addition to the high aspect ratio wing. It had a shuttle weight that could be moved by cable through the length of the tail that allowed the glider to be trimmed anywhere between 50 mph (80 km/h) and 80 mph (130 km/h). [2 ...
The SPAD XIII is built predominantly from riveted aluminum tubing and stainless steel gussets and stamped aluminum wing ribs, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. The landing gear is of conventional configuration, with a tail skid. For scale requirements the cockpit is only 18 in (46 cm) wide. [1] [2] [3] [9]
Neither the upper nor lower wings have any dihedral, [7] [8] and ailerons are fitted to all four wings. [7] [8] The fuselage is built from welded steel tubing with wooden stringers and formers to give it shape, [9] [10] the wing structure is aluminum, [7] [8] and the entire aircraft is covered in fabric. [8]
It is made from 7075-T6 aluminum tubing, with the control bar and kingpost made from 6061-T6 aluminum. The single-surface wing is covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 39.0 ft (11.9 m) span wing is cable braced from a single kingpost. The nose angle is 115°, wing area is 330 sq ft (30.7 m 2) and the aspect ratio is 5:1. Pilot hook-in weight range ...
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The Junkers all-metal corrugated-covered wing / multiple tubular wing spar design format was emulated after World War I by American aviation designer William Stout for his 1920s-era Ford Trimotor airliner series, and by Russian aerospace designer Andrei Tupolev for such aircraft as his Tupolev ANT-2 of 1922, upwards in size to the then-gigantic ...