WHAT AIRCRAFT CAN TEACH US
DESIGN MAY PROFIT BY WARTIM E ACTIVITIES Change is good for us all, and it may he that the sudden transition of designers and operatives from private cars, built to a price, to aircraft, built to a standard only attainable in the most expensive private vehicle, will not be without its value and its lessons when times return to normal. As has frequently been pointed out in The Autocar, it is not only in such matters as streamlining (which is, perhaps, the first point to suggest itself) that the aircraft designer has something to teach us, but in the use of light alloys and in the general reduction of weight without sacrifice to the safety factor. If the car designer comes back to his task with a deeper appreciation of what weight implies, the interregnum will not have been wholly wasted. As a result of the war, direct injection may be developed in private cars, although, perhaps, not by such a costly system as that employed on German aircraft; that used on a certain Italian racing car may offer possibilities. If ever direct injection is employed on cars, it will be through aircraft development that it will be approached.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13330, 6 May 1941, Page 7
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