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Rivet trivia: Charles Ward Hall of the Hall-Aluminum Aircraft Corporation submitted a patent proposal for a flush rivet in 1926. Hall’s Buffalo, New York company produced the first aircraft with a riveted fuselage in 1929 with his XFH Naval Fighter Prototype. The first aircraft with butt joints and flush rivets to fly was the Hall PH flying boat of 1929. So since 1926 how many billions of rivets have been used and how many billions of dollars have been made from such a simple, low technology, thing?
 
A story I have never heard before...Have you?
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On the night of March 31st, 1930, after one last garbled radio transmission was heard from the Royal Canadian Navy's massive HMCD Samuel de Champlain (D was for Dirigible) seeking refuge from an Arctic storm, she disappeared from history. The Great Blizzard of '30 brought about the deaths of 30 Canadian Navy airmen, two First Nations guides and ended the short but glorious period of dirigible operations in Canada.

In the morning of April 1st, or perhaps on one of the following 6 days, Samuel de Champlain and crew met their end. It was thought for decades that the crash site was over open water somewhere on James Bay. For months afterward, RCAF aircraft and northern RCMP patrols searched from Ungava Bay to Fort Churchill and as far south as the Laurentians. No signs of wreckage were discovered."
MISSING AIRSHIP: THE CASE of the RCN-100
 


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