The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron

Re:The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron by hollerith on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:50PM (#29710546)

The article claims that some aircraft have been made with corrugated iron or steel:

>aircraft hangars, aircraft themselves

But I doubt that. (Corrugated aluminum, sure.)

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Re:The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron by Turing_Machine on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @12:10AM (#29710677)

The Junkers J1 was made from steel, some corrugated, some not, so it is just possible to make one fly. It was a real pig in the air, by all accounts.

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Re:The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron by hollerith on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @12:13AM (#29710695)

Thanks. The Wikipedia page says that only one J1 was built.

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Re:The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron by intrepidhero on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @12:01AM (#29710610)

I thought of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Trimotor, corrugated but as you suspected, aluminum.

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Re:The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron by brazzy on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:06AM (#29712514)

Perhaps most iconic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_52

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Re:The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron by HideousKojima on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @02:02AM (#29711248)

Not sure about corrugated, but the Mig-25 was all stainless steel

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Re:The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron by rndm_access on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @02:05AM (#29711271)

The MiG-25 was constructed from 80% nickel-steel alloy, 11% aluminium, and 9% titanium according to source cited on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#cite_n...

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