MacDonald, Alexander Forsyth, 1897-1965 · Port Credit, Ont. : Aviation Service Corporation · leaf 140
STRESSED SKIN structure. A perfect StressedSkin structure would be one m which the skin, inaddition to providing the covering and forming theshape, would be capable of carrying all the load,without any internal bracing. Such a structure doesnot at present e-^cist, although the increasing… … fig. }. Geodetic Fuselage. Geodetics form the shape as well as the structure. Themembers run in geodetic lines, such a line being theshortest distance between two points on a curvedsurface. The arrangement of the members is such thaithey tend to stabilize one another. This provides astructure of…
Airplanes
Internet Archive · Gerstein Library, University of Toronto · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
