Description
Institute Press, Published 1941. Paperback, 112 pp.; 21 cm; illustrated with line drawings, shop drawings and tables.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Mint green paper covers printed in black on front with Art Deco stripes, stars and airplane silhouette; rear cover blank. Mild shelf and edge wear, light soiling and scuffing, residue of erased pencil notation at top of front cover. Staple-bound, four staples visible at rear gutter; binding tight. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Training manual for aircraft sheet metal workers, compiled, per the preface, "to aid students of metal aircraft construction" and to let schools set up a short course leading into the aircraft industry. Covers the departments and personnel of an aircraft factory, nomenclature and definitions, mock-up and lofting, fuselage and wing structure, stressed skins, rivets and flush riveting, bolts, nuts, clevis and cotter pins, Dzus fasteners, reading a micrometer, hand forming, form blocks, and repair of cowling, with tables of useful information. Drawings and data courtesy of Douglas Aircraft (fuselage stationing), Falcon Aircraft Corp., Los Angeles, the Aluminum Company of America and Aviation Magazine, with design details of the Ryan P-33 and a profile of the Vultee Vanguard P-48A. Companion to the editors' Book One of the same title.