Step-by-step illustrated description of methods employed at Lockheed to produce 165-gal streamlined tank every 4 1/2 min at about one-seventh cost of aluminum tanks formerly produced. (see also Aero Digest v 42 n 5 May 1943 p 151-3; Western Flying v 23 n 6 June 1943 p 42-3, 118, 120; Aircraft Production v 5 n 57 July 1943 p 333-7)


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    Title :

    How Lockheed builds steel drop tanks


    Additional title:

    Aviation


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Aviation ; 42 , n 6


    Publication date :

    1943


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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