Vought, Chance

Fig. 1. Graphic representation of energy modes. (The authors are indebted to H. C. Rodean of Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc. for permission to use this graphic presentation.)...

Work by de Bruyne was closely followed by activity at Chance-Vought, Consolidated Vul-tee, and Martin. Chance-Vought explored alu-... 

It was the former, however, which, initially, proved to be of great interest to the aircraft industry. The essence of an idea of de Bruyne was worked on by Chance Vought, in the United States of America. They used Redux 775 Liquid and Powder adhesive to bond thin aluminium skins to end-grain balsa wood sheets in order to produce sandwich panels. These panels were called Metalite (Fig. 29). 

Figure 30 Chance Vought Regulus guided missile (image courtesy of Lockheed Martin...

However, in spite of this innovation, the use of Redux Liquid E was retained by de Havilland until 1963 (well into the Comet programme) and by Chance Vought in the United States of America until the termination of the F-7 Cutlass programme. 

New types of structure utilized As far as the aerospace industry is concerned, one of the most important, novel structures since the early 1950s has been the honeycomb sandwich panel (Fig. 13.16). It could be argued that the woodskinned balsa sandwich panels used in the Mosquito or the metal skinned version used by Chance Vought (Metalite —q.v.) could have been joined by some other method than adhesive... 

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