Elementary principles of aeroplane design and construction; a textbook for students, draughtsmen, and engineers (1919)
Judge, Arthur William, 1887- · London, New York, J. Selwyn and co., ltd. · leaf 98
nd which has since been adopted on modern military machines. It consists of a pair of similar, outwardly splayed U-tube members, hinged or fixed at the top ends of the U-arms to the fuselage frame, the lower bends being held apart by hori- zontal steel tubular struts welded to the U- tubes. These… … For a machine of 1,500 pounds weight, steel tubes, either nickel or nickel chrome, of external diameter about i£ inches and of 1 6 S.W.G. thickness, will be found suitable, and the ordinary wooden fairing may be employed for streamlining purposes. Other systems of bracing the undercarriage are…
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