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  Re: New entry for ISCC: "Missing in Action" - Ju 52 airplane
 
(...) That is exactely right. Corrogated sheets of metal have a much better weight / bending-strengthness ratio than flat ones. But you have two main disadvantages: - the air friction gets higher (because the surface area increases - the modern (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: New entry for ISCC: "Missing in Action" - Ju 52 airplane
 
(...) The Ford Trimotor (perhaps the most important US airplane of the 1920s) used corro as well. Not too surprising, since some say it was a copy of an earlier Fokker. The Ju 52 looks somewhat like it as well. (URL) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)

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