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To: unixfox

“The plane, the first from France’s Vickers factory, had not been seen since the mid-1970s, when researchers photographed the steel fuselage nearly encompassed in ice.”

Only the bloody frogs would build an aircraft fuselage out of steel, if the report is accurate.


7 posted on 01/02/2010 6:04:00 PM PST by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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To: pingman

I think the french pioneered the monocoque construction. It wasn’t steel though and it didn’t happen until about 1920, I think.


8 posted on 01/02/2010 7:10:54 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Veni, Vidi, Vicki: "I came, I saw, and I'm like, Omigod!")
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