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On the Present and Potential Efficiency of Structural Plastics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

J. E. Gordon
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 56 , Issue 501 , September 1952 , pp. 704 - 728
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1952

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