Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Aircraft dope is a plasticised lacquer that is applied to fabric-covered aircraft. It tightens and stiffens fabric stretched over airframes, which renders them airtight and weatherproof, increasing their durability and lifespan.
The German aircraft designer Hugo Junkers is considered one of the pioneers of metal aircraft; his designs started the move away from fabric covering. The highly flammable mixture of fabric, dope and hydrogen gas was a factor in the demise of the Hindenburg airship.
Titanine was an aviation coatings (Aircraft dope) originally manufactured by Holzapfels, Ltd., of Newcastle, at their Felling-on-Tyne works, where they had been carrying on business as manufacturers of anti-corrosive paints and varnishes for marine purposes. Titanine continues to be manufactured in a range of paints and coatings used in the ...
The NTSB is leading the U.S. team of investigators that also includes Boeing and the FAA, since the aircraft was manufactured and certified in the United States.
The NTSB’s examination will account for major portions of the aircraft, witness marks on the aircraft structure and fracture surfaces, “general airworthiness” of the aircraft, along with ...
The first aerospace materials were those long-established and often naturally occurring materials used to construct the first aircraft. These included such mundane materials as timber for wing structures and fabric and dope to cover them.
This year is the first that Iberia and Vietnam Airlines ranked in AirlineRatings.com's safest airlines list. Notably, Korean Air has risen in the rankings to be included in the top 10.
Aircraft dope, a substance painted onto fabric-covered aircraft to tauten the skin; Dope, a technical expression for the solution of polymers from which fibers are spun; see Wet processing engineering; Peg dope, a substance used to coat the bearing surfaces of the tuning pegs of string instruments