Stressed Skin
An outer covering used on wings and fuselages, designed to carry the tension and compression forces encountered in flight.
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Stressed Skin: The form of aircraft construction in which the external skin carries part or all of the main loads.
Fletcher Aviation Corporation was persuaded by a delegation of New Zealanders to develop an aircraft for the New Zealand market, and Jim Thorpe adapted a design for the FD-25 Defender light attack aircraft into the Fletcher Fu24, a stressed skin ...
Cessna and Luscomb broke away from the pack early by adopting the "stressed skin" all aluminum semi-monocoque construction for their light planes.
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