Aluminum: The Miracle Metal of Aviation See all the exhibitions. This record supersedes Aluminum: The Miracle Metal of Aviation (2019-03-09 to 2017~)

This aviation exhibition was on display between 2017~ and July 2019 in the AML Aviation Museum Gallery 01 gallery, located in International Terminal

Tweets about Aluminum: The Miracle Metal of Aviation The @SFOMuseum Twitter account has posted 16 tweets about Aluminum: The Miracle Metal of Aviation. Here are 3 of them, chosen at random.

The XH-44 featured two rigid, counter-rotating rotor blades, which required the rigidity of aluminum in order to prevent contact at high revolutions, potentially causing severe damage to both. By the 1960s, most helicopter rotors were made out of aluminum. #AviationAluminum This tweet was posted on July 21, 2019.
The green paint on this piece of fuselage from a Ford 4-AT-E Tri-Motor is Zinc Chromate, a corrosion resistant protectant and organic matter barrier developed by the Ford Motor Company in the late 1920s and used to preserve metal aircraft parts and fuselages. #AviationAluminum This tweet was posted on April 03, 2019.
"Aluminum: The Miracle Metal of Aviation" is on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum and Library in the International Terminal. https://t.co/hZ1EfC9gva #AviationAluminum This tweet was posted on June 20, 2019.