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Why are aircraft not made of glass?

On March 18, 2017 · In Engineering, Manufacturing, Novel Materials/Tailored Structures

J.E. Gordon, a leading engineer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough and holder of the British Silver Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, wrote two brilliant books on engineering: “The New Science of Strong Materials” and “Structures – Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down”. Elon Musk

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