EXPENSIVE PLANES
GERMANS USB ELECTRON N LONDON, Jan. 20.—Germany is building war planes; of electron, a costly super-strong illegal. Albout onethird of the weight of the aluminium used in British aircraft. One of Britain’s leading aircraft engineers stated that several of Germany's bombers are’ now built of electron. • V, - He said: “The breaking strain of an aluminium easting''is;Vlibut nine ihons, but the same casting oh electron,, if i'll, take strains of 1% to 15 tons.” ... . Electron’s drawback is that it costs about one-quarter mere than aluminium.
An official of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors said: “We use electron mainly for components of airplanes, giinttijrrets, engine cowlings,, but I understand German engineers are building complete’’machines of electron.”
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 171, 21 April 1939, Page 4
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117EXPENSIVE PLANES Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 171, 21 April 1939, Page 4
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