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Why use aluminium instead of glass for making aircraft bodies?
Coolboydiver
Many reasons mainly that aluminum is lighter and is flexible and will not shatter like glass.
That being said, aircraft bodies have been made of composite materials like fiberglass (or carbon fiber, or occasionally Kevlar) which is glass cloth with a epoxy binder.
Also Plywood (the spruce goose) also canvas cloth stretched across a frame and then coated with "dope" to stiffen it.
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