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Take a look at how they used to build aircraft! (Narratives and photos copyright Lindsay Publications, used with permission).
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Aircraft Sheet Metal Work 1942
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21893



Aircraft Sheet Metal Work 1942
by Norcross & Quinn
reprinted by Lindsay Publications 

Have you ever seen the smooth contours and perfect transitions on the skin of a DC-3? How did they do that? Airplanes, like custom autos, are exquisite examples of sheet metal craftsmanship. This book will show you how it was done in 1942. 

Chapters include blueprint reading; shop math; properties and standards of aircraft materials; how to measure; templates; aircraft sheetmetal layout; how to cut sheet; files and how to use them; forming, stamping, and hydraulic presses; drilling and how to do it; how to rivet; jig assembly in modern aircraft factories; skin fitting; spot welding; and shop projects. 
Aircraft Sheet Metal Work

You learn to work sheet metal in the most basic terms. You'll see a man removing wrinkles from a curved sheet using a planishing hammer and bumping stake. And a man bending an extrusion to an irregular shape using a rawhide hammer over a V block. Or a man using a bucking bar while riveting. Or a man using a vixen file to rapidly trim an aluminum alloy sheet. 

This is all nuts-and-bolts how-to. No fancy theory or math. One of the best sheet metal books I've ever seen. Just what you need to help you restore your Bugatti. Or make a radio chassis or tool box. Excellent book. Get a copy. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 paperback 285 pages 
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Harper's Aircraft Book 1913
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Harper's Aircraft Book 1913

by A H Verrill

OUT OF PRINT-NO LONGER AVAILABLE!

Aeroplanes? Yup. This was 1913, and the hottest new technology were the aeroplanes that daredevils flew!

Kids dreamed of building a plane and flying. (Big kids, too. I'm sure.)

To take care of those dreams Verrill, a member of the technical board of the Aeronautical Society of America, produced this incredible how-to book. Six different sections cover: why the aeroplane flies, model aeroplanes and fliers, gliders or non-propelled aeroplanes, the modern aeroplanes, hydroaeroplanes and flying-boats, and uses of the aeroplane.

Within these sections are eighteen chapters that will show you how to build models of classic early airplanes such as the Neuport Monoplane, a Wright Aeroplane (with a 3' wingspan), a three foot Bleriot, construction details on a Curtiss plane with pontoons, and more. You get details on building a full-size glider with 20' wing span from spruce, piano wire and cloth.

You'll find photographs of early planes, details of their engines, design details of interest to model builders and early aviation fans. This is an incredible book, beautifully illustrated revealing the earliest days of aviation, and showing you how you could be part of it. Obviously, there is so much material here that you don't get step-by-step handholding instructions. But the detail IS surprising.

You're expected to have at least some of the ingenuity and initiative that turn-of-the-century boys all seemed to have. Build yourself a large model. Great for radio control, that steam power plant you wanted to build, for impressing the neighbors, and for exploring early planes by building. Build the full scale glider, strap a V1 pulse jet to it along with your mother-in-law and wave goodbye to her! If nothing else, just enjoy reading and dreaming. Excellent book. Jam packed with fun things to consider. Get a copy! 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 softcover 245 pages
No.22210
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