15 Apr 2021

Aluminium has long sparked the imagination of humankind’s quest to explore the space beyond Earth. In fact, Jules Gabriel Verne, the renowned French novelist credited with stories like ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’, ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ and ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’, wrote of man setting sail to the moon in an aluminium spaceship. The Wright brothers’ ‘Flyer I’, the first steerable flying apparatus flew...

Aluminium, Flying You Around The Earth & Beyond
15 Apr 2021

Aluminium is the winged metal in the skies. Aluminium alloys are the primary material for fuselage, wings and supporting structures of commercial aircrafts because of their light weight, high strength, exceptional design flexibility, unmatched corrosion resistance, ability to anodise beautifully and superb machinability. Strong aluminium alloys take the extraordinary pressures and stresses involved in high altitude flying; wafer-thin aluminium panels keep the cold out and the air in. The first...

Aluminium, The Winged Metal