Description: Lofting and Layout: Use of the Loft, prepared by and published by International Textbook Co., Scranton, Penn., for the Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of the Navy, 1943. Reprinted by Nation Builder Books, Leesburg, VA, 2003, 5½ x 8½ softcover, photoduplicated booklet, 43 pages. Please note that this is a photoduplicated reproduction , not an original . The accompanying images were scanned from a reprint, not the original. The aircraft industry adopted the word and meaning of lofting from shipbuilding: reproducing and transferring loft lines to metal templets, for laying out and making templets, mock-ups or models, patterns, certain tooling and assembly jigs, and to facilitate methods for checking various airframe and wing components. Among the subjects and specific tools discussed are scales and protractors; ducks, splines, and curves; trammels, straightedges, and pantographs; battens and take-off sticks; wire adjuster; projecting and checking points; determining points for a long straight line; apparatus for laying out grid lines; specific loft layouts for various aircraft components (fuselage, wings, nacelles, empennage; making layouts; and simplified riveting.
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