To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce. Preston Lerner Spruce was essential to the construction of more than 4,000 Curtiss JN-4D ...
In a world where raw tonnage commanded respect, these war machines pushed the limits of human engineering. From a mammoth ...
Modern commercial aircraft still use rivets for assembly because they're more suitable for the aluminum panels that planes ...
On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Vultee Vice President of Production D. I. Caroll boasted that the plane manufacturer's Nashville division had increased productivity by two ...
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