And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It looks like the cockpit section has flat aluminium skin. The corrugated skin on the cabin section is stiffer but also much heavier. The tail section also appears to be covered with flat aluminium. Airplane design engineers make things as heavy as they need to be and no more. The DHC-6 Twin Otter has chemically milled tapered skin on the top and bottom of the wing. The skin is thickest at the wing root where the load is greatest and tapers gradually towards the tip where the load is least. Al_in_Ottawa
Yes and it did yeoman service for many years from what I've read. And before the homogenization of design, nations had a style distinct from one another. This one shouts Brit!
Why does the nose section of that plane's skin appear to be a smooth/different from the aft section of that plane?
ReplyDeleteBecause it gets there first. No need for laminar corrugation.
DeleteIt looks like the cockpit section has flat aluminium skin. The corrugated skin on the cabin section is stiffer but also much heavier. The tail section also appears to be covered with flat aluminium.
ReplyDeleteAirplane design engineers make things as heavy as they need to be and no more. The DHC-6 Twin Otter has chemically milled tapered skin on the top and bottom of the wing. The skin is thickest at the wing root where the load is greatest and tapers gradually towards the tip where the load is least.
Al_in_Ottawa
Wow, Al. That's some good information. How long you been maintaining aircraft?
Delete...specified skin was backordered so assembly line used what leftovers they had. Classic "work with what you got".
ReplyDeleteI said 'airfoil', not 'air-Mohel'.
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ReplyDeleteYes and it did yeoman service for many years from what I've read. And before the homogenization of design, nations had a style distinct from one another. This one shouts Brit!
DeleteI got a Consolidated Commodore vibe when I first looked at it until I realized that the number of engines was wrong.
DeleteImperial airlines .
ReplyDeleteInteresting way to get 4 prop blades, they are stacked two bladed. Much cheaper and easier to make.
ReplyDeletepilot prolly felt like the foreskin on a dick in that plane.
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