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Found another. Curtiss HS-2L Pacific Marine Airways.
PictionID:43264643 - Title:Curtiss HS-2L Pacific Marine Airways [Western AL via RJF] - Catalog:17_000273 - Filename:17_000273.tif - ———Image from the René Francillon Photo Archive. Having had his interest in aviation sparked by being at the receiving end of B-24s bombing occupied France when he was 7-yr old, René Francillon turned aviation into both his vocation and avocation. Most of his professional career was in the United States, working for major aircraft manufacturers and airport planning/design companies. All along, he kept developing a second career as an aviation historian, an activity that led him to author more than 50 books and 400 articles published in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere. Far from "hanging on his spurs," he plans to remain active as an author well into his eighties.——-PLEASE TAG this image with any information you know about it, so that we can permanently store this data with the original image file in our Digital Asset Management System.————–SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
 

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Hall PH flying boat
and Stinson RQ-1 Reliant of U.S. Goast Guard at Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Brooklyn, Floyd Bennet Field, New York, 1938.
 

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what was junkers insistency on the corrugated skin..even on the top of the wings? was he able to lighten and aircraft sub structures because the skin was going to add so much strength do to the its configuration?
 
bobbysocks said:
what was junkers insistency on the corrugated skin..even on the top of the wings? was he able to lighten and aircraft sub structures because the skin was going to add so much strength do to the its configuration?
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Early all-metal monoplanes used corrugated surfaces to strengthen the airframe. You'll notice this was also used with other early large monoplanes of the time, like Ford's 1-AS/2-AT/3-AT/5-AT(trimotor), Tupolev's TB-1/ANT-4/TB-3/ANT-20 and several other aircraft makers used this structural technique.
 
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