In the 1920s, some companies, chiefly in North America, turned their attention to producing sturdy toy motor vehicles and aircraft using pressed steel, of a greater thickness than the stamped sheet metal - tin...
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The jet age arrived in the early 1950s with Britain's Comet. Its four Ghost jet engines were encased in fairings between the wings and fuselage. Unfortunately, this dramatic aircraft developed structural...
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