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Aviation History
1932
1932 - 0710.PDF
if regard for the secondary structure, or for local problems cropping up at points where several mem bers meet, or where pieces of equipment have to be attached. One has the feeling that the designer left such consideration to chance, regarding them as bridges to be crossed when he came to them. In the A.W. XV machines, on the other hand, one feels throughout that every last detail has been thought of and allowed for before the genera) " scheme " of construction was finally chosen. The result is that no awkward joints are found any where, no makeshift fittings to get over problems which had not been properly • considered before hand. In other words, there is something very " finished " about the A.W. XV structure in an engineering sense. The Fuselage Generally speaking, use is made, in the A.W. XV machines, of steel strip formed into open-channel sections. The actual sections differ slightly according
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