DOPE - Preservative and pigmented coloring for fabric aircraft covering and paints, generally nitrate lacquer but generically used to denote all early shellac and coal-tar mixtures on up to present-day acrylics.
Cellulose Dope
A nitrocellulose varnish like liquid used to shrink fabric onto a frame. Care should be taken to carefully read manufacturers instructions and work in an open environment as the fumes can become very overpowering.
Dope.-A general term applied to the material used in treating the cloth surface of airplane members to increase strength, produce tautness, and act as a filler to maintain air and moisture tightness. Usually of the cellulose type.
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For instance, we wish we could put that smell which develops while using rubbing compound on dope in a can and sell it. It is a warm combination of dope, compound, a little nitrate and other things which say "airplane.
If you are painting a fabric airplane, you can use a specially designed polyurethane topcoat, butyrate dope, or Poly-Tone. Butyrate dope and Poly-Fiber's Poly-Tone are both very easy to apply because they are more viscous.
describes a building method where the aircraft's superstructure is built using welded steel or bolted aluminum tube covered with Dacron fabric (could also be linen or Grade A cotton.) This fabric can be painted, typically with aircraft dope, ...
" along Catfish Row, known in Charleston as Cabbage Row. It was there that Harlem dope peddler Sportin' Life's "happy dust" led to murder, lust, and temptation, and where the soulful story of love, loss and the crippled Porgy's forlorn love unfolded.
A number of highly stressed members are of chromemolybdenum steel (4130). Other members are of 1025 Steel.
The fuselage is made corrosion resistant by the application of a coat of zincchromate, followed by a sealer coat of nitrate dope.
 See also: Plane, Aircraft, Steel, Power, Pilot
  
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