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AIR LINER IN THE MAKING What Is the recipe for a modern air liner? The kind that de velops a 6-mile-o-minute speed on five-mila-high air lanes and has aa ocean- spanning ronge? Here's how top-flight chefs of the aircraft in dustry concoct them: Take 103,000 manufactured parts plus 250,000 nu^s, bolts, screws and rivets. Mix with 47 miles of wire (300,000 pieces), add a pinch or two of paint, glass, rubber, plastic and cable. Wrap in 18 tons of aluminum' Then add four giant engines. Spread around a 100-acre factor/ and agitate. Use lathes, winches, rivet guns, pres ses, drills, hammers, pliers and punches. Stir with 12,000 hands. Finish design to customer's specifications: as a luxury liner, tourist-fare transport, radar early-warning plane, hospital ship or cargo transport. These are what go into the making of a giant, streamlined Super Con stellation of the Lockheed aircraft corporation plant in Burbank, Calif., pictured here from tho skeleton stage to completion. " 1. Skilled precision workers putfinishing touches on framework of a new Super Constellation at Lockheed plant in Burbank. Form whien holds ribs and stringers in place is called o"jig." 7. Workers affix metallic snap-on fasteners to hold outer aluminum alloy skin position for riveting positions. Fasteners are then replaced by finishing rivets. 3. Strangely shaped iadders fit over huge cylindrical fuseiage sections in order to protect transport from scratch, scuff and scar. Heavy paper protects outer aluninum during assembly line worfu 4. Hug* tail section with its triple-fin arrangement dwarfs production workers at right as they cement tough deicer boots directly to leading edges. Entire tail section is referred to as the empennage. 1 t I I IP I 5. Workers guide main I aiding gear into position Main (Mr units fit into Inboard angina nacatlas, forward lag ratroefs into fusaloga. ~*j i: ? ?. ~ 1 6. Skilled girl wailw installs In tricot# ?loctrical wiring tysten. Sh? uim blu?print aid photograph (or rtfortne* to installation procedural. 7. Slanting tlityword undar lull powar, ? ntw Sup?r Conttol lotion dwnon ? tratos its climbing ability in tMt takaoH at LockhMd plant in Buifcaik. Ikb Utah MCTUU MOW-AT Ww^ilinn.
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