Old 03-25-13 | 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by SirMike1983
Junkers also built corrugated metal aircraft with metal frames in the First War (as early as 1915), but I doubt they were Cro Mo or anything like that. I think they were "electrical" steel or the like at first, then switched to duralum.
The protoype Junkers all-metal aircraft reportedly used frames constructed from steel angle channel and I-beams. While I've seen nothing on the alloy designation, I suspect it was similar to what Fokker was using. The production model that served in the Great War used primarily aluminum tubing for the frame and a corrugated aluminum skin, though they did use a 5mm "chrome-nickel" steel sheet on the forward fusealge for engine and crew protection. I've seen the sole surving sample which resides in the National Aviation Museum in Ottawa.
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