Airships - those were the days- shades of Nevil Shute's book 'slide rule'
no 3D mega-wizz computers in those days, just lots of clever mathematicians & engineers. (still plenty of clever folk around but those slide rule skills must be a dying art these days)
I imagine that geodetics had a greater battle damage tolerance than stresed skin construction ?
Was the earliest use of stressed skin al' alloy for fixed wing the supermarine S6B schneider trophy racer ?
Interesting thread - keep those replies going
