Aircraft Structural Aluminum Forming

US Army instructional film on forming various sheet metal structures for aluminum aircraft.

[@nannesoar]

Amazingly informative video, seriously as someone trying to create stuff I learned a ton of new useful information. Metal is like a woman.

[@commentatron]

4:06 "Metal is like a woman..."

[@tiredowalkin]

Hmmmm, interesting, He was just leading up to his point...."You will never be able to deal with her properly, you may become a slave of her mixture, or a master of her property"

[@andrewalexander9492]

Imagine if that was in a Army training film today ...

[@aaronbugaiski2487]

Yah that wouldn’t fly in today’s army!😂 sad sad but very cool old video. Metal forming is a lost art form I have spent a good part of my life perusing.

[@tinmantech]

Interesting film with an "art" approach.

[@williamweesner1191]

Now I remember why I use to fall asleep in AIT. Geeeeeezus. And that uniform is wash and wear, not starched sarge….😅

[@rock3tcatU233]

And no CNC router in sight.

[@kennedysingh3916]

This is a industry I which I was working in.

[@CandidZulu]

"Ms. Aluminum" got her name from the Latin word alumen stems from the Proto-Indo-European root *alu- meaning "bitter" or "beer". Surprised they did not deal with dents, they must be common!?

[@DanFrederiksen]

1972

[@daveharringbone8512]

7.62 bullet holes and blood stains