Short Cockle
Videos
The Short S.1 Cockle was a single-seat sport monoplane flying boat, with a novel monocoque duralumin hull. It was underpowered and so did not leave the water easily, but it proved that watertight and
Cockle on the River Medway, Rochester in 1924 - original fin
Cockle in 1924 with original fin
Short Cockle, overhead
Duralumin
Videos
Duralumin is a trade name for one of the earliest types of age-hardenable aluminium–copper alloys. The term is a combination of Düren, dur, and aluminium. Its use as a trade name is obsolete. Today th
Fire-damaged Duralumin cross brace from the Zeppelin airship Hindenburg (DLZ129) salvaged from its crash site at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937
Corrosion of duralumin
Duralumin sample from the 1931 airship USS Akron (ZRS-4)
The first mass-production aircraft to make extensive use of duralumin, the armored Junkers J.I sesquiplane of World War I