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    Duralumin (also called duraluminum, duraluminium, duralum, dural(l)ium, or dural) is a trade name for one of the earliest types of age-hardenable aluminium–copper...
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    Like all Junkers duralumin-structured designs, from the 1918 J 7 to the 1932 Ju 46, (some 35 models), it has an aluminium alloy (duralumin) structure entirely...
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  • latter two are "discovered" during the series, along with aluminium and duralumin, all having been previously known to the Lord Ruler but kept secret. Thus...
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    Windsor. In these aircraft, the fuselage and wing were built up from duralumin alloy channel-beams that were formed into a large framework. Wooden battens...
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  • susceptibility to corrosion and their poor weldability are disadvantageous. Duralumin is the oldest variety in this group and goes back to Alfred Wilm, who...
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    non-metallic carbon or silicon respectively), solder, brass, pewter, duralumin, bronze, and amalgams. Alloys are used in a wide variety of applications...
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  • Special-Purpose Materials, 1990 pp. 137–38 Yoshio, Baba."Extra super duralumin and successive aluminium alloys for aircraft." Journal of Japan Institute...
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    the output requirements set by the Zeppelin Company. Hindenburg had a duralumin structure, incorporating 15 Ferris wheel-like main ring bulkheads along...
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    was of mixed metal-wood configuration, with the front half covered by duralumin sheets and the rear part with pine plywood. The tail had been modified...
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    engineer Ernst Zindel. The aircraft's design incorporated a corrugated duralumin metal skin as a strengthening measure, which was a material design pioneered...
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    which Monsanto was able to deliver. The whole assembly was encased in a duralumin bomb casing to protect it from bullets and flak. The ultimate task of...
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    steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D.I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal...
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    that combined the corrosion resistance of aluminum with the strength of duralumin. The plane was similar to Fokker's V.VII–3m. The Trimotor first flew on...
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    (79 US gal) drop tanks, one under each wing, on VTr-Ju 87 racks with duralumin fairings produced by Weserflug, and a centreline bomb rack. The outer...
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    two-person crew. The main construction material was duralumin, and the external coverings were made of duralumin sheeting. Parts that were required to be of strong...
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    several changes including air brakes skinned with EI-100N steel instead of duralumin and powered by a Klimov RD-45F. Samolet SV (СВ) First production version...
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    alloy developed by Sumitomo Metal Industries in 1936. Called "extra super duralumin", it was lighter, stronger and more ductile than other alloys used at...
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    semi-monocoque with wood spars and a plywood skin. The wings were of duralumin and steel construction with fabric-covered rod-actuated control surfaces...
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  • heart of a girl. She pretends to be a prince to prevent the evil Duke Duralumin from taking over the kingdom through his son, Plastic. The gender-bending...
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    heavy-gauge corrugated duralumin center box and a multi-cellular trailing edge, along with a partially stressed exterior skin composed of duralumin; according to...
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    order of Hermann Göring. The Hindenburg class were built entirely from duralumin. The leader of the design team was Ludwig Dürr, who had overseen the design...
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  • Osamu Tezuka's Star System (手塚漫画のキャラクター一覧, Tedzuka Manga no Kyarakutā Ichiran, lit. The Tezuka Manga Character List) is the name given to the recurring...
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    materials used throughout the structure of the Meteor, such as the stressed duralumin skin. Across the Meteor's production life, various different companies...
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  • metallurgist who invented the alloy Al-(3.5%-5.5%)Cu-Mg-Mn, now known as Duralumin which is used extensively in aircraft. Whilst working in private military-industrial...
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  • strength. In older systems of terminology, 2XXX series alloys were known as duralumin, and this alloy was named 24ST. 2024 is commonly extruded, and also available...
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    total destruction time of about 16 seconds.[citation needed] Some of the duralumin framework of the airship was salvaged and shipped back to Germany, where...
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    The Spitfire's airframe was complex. The streamlined, semi-monocoque, duralumin-skinned fuselage had a number of compound curves built up over a skeleton...
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    improved agricultural crop-sprayer/duster. The An-2M featured an all-duralumin welded and bonded fuselage, lockable tailwheel, enlarged fibre-glass hopper...
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    aircraft had an all-metal fuselage partially covered with canvas and duralumin sheets. The frame was welded from Cr-Mo steel tubes to which a wooden...
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    oxygen apparatus; outside, he found parts of the oxygen apparatus and the duralumin carriers. They left no note specifying when they had commenced their attempt...
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