Buckles Blog: 1950's Kelly-Miller #3

Thursday, September 17, 2015

My Mother and "Anna May".

Chic Silber said...: These are 2 of the 4 most

important women in your life; 17 September, 2015 08:30
Chic Silber said...: At 1 time I thought you said

that this ball was aluminum

welded from tapered segments; 17 September, 2015 15:06
JIM ELLIOTT said...: Chic, They Didn't build things out of aluminum in those days.
Just Good Ole' Steel.; 17 September, 2015 17:13
Chic Silber said...: DC-3s were not made of steel Jim

(but snow shovels were); 17 September, 2015 18:19
Chic Silber said...: I thought Buckles had mentioned

some very good friend that was

able to pattern & sculpt these

precision balls out of aluminum; 17 September, 2015 18:21
4pawfan said...: Aluminum welding started during WWII. They had a hard time with temps and you will only see aluminum welded engine mounts, wheel set mounts,etc. on planes built during the war. All sheet work was with aluminum rivots on aluminum airframes. Lone Star Flight Museum used to have a good display of engines, etc. and I was surprised to see all the early material, as I was thinking all of it would have been cast aluminum. But they did have some earlier welded parts on the large bombers. Again, they were engine mounts, which were bolted to the airframes, etc.; 17 September, 2015 20:53

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