The first all-metal airplane to fly was the Tubavion monoplane, constructed by the Frenchmen Ponche and Primard and exhibited at the 3rd Paris Salon on 16 December 1911. Two were built.

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Aviation Design/ Tools (aeronautics - airfoils) » Airfoil plotting software

 Profile - A great little program to display and print/plot airfoil templates for aircraft designs.
Simple, fast and extremely accurate - any airfoil you want from .dat and .cor files.
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Date: 16/01/2003 - View Full Info - Downloads: 13320 - File Size & Format: 129.75KB

Aviation Design/ Tools (aeronautics - airfoils) » Complete Airfoil Archive

 Airfoil Archive: The most complete airfoil collection available. (approx 2000 airfoils) Includes Clark, NASA etc.
The airfoil profiles are in a lot of ways considered the heart of the aircraft. A good airfoil is critical in attaining the desired aircraft performance.
Date: 16/03/2003 - View Full Info - Downloads: 16060 - File Size & Format: 1.8MB

Aviation Design/ Tools (aeronautics - airfoils) » Professional wind tunnel

 Plans to construct your own professional wind tunnel. Designed by NASA Low cost project (can be built for less then US$ 250.00) This was designed to produce a steady airflow with no turbulence in the testing area. Designed to test scale model/s of your airfoil, fuselage, canopy etc.
Date: 16/01/2003 - View Full Info - Downloads: 7710 - File Size & Format: 658.49KB