Asbestos Products used in Aerospace Industry: Aircraft, Missiles, & Rockets had Asbestos Parts

We have for sale a 1960s technical book on refractory fibres, fibrous metals, and composites that has a chapter on "Asbestos in Aircraft and Missiles."

Some of the asbestos products pictured in this book include

• Turbine wheel of asbestos-phenolic moulding compound for rocket generator
  
• Rocket sliver trap of asbestos-phenolic moulding compound
• The aft closure asbestos-phenolic resin insulation for the first-stage 'Minuteman' ICBM engine 
• Rocket motor section, spirally wrapped with asbestos-phenolic impregnated yarn
• Durestos duct used in the Britannia aircraft
• Missile fins made from Durestos asbestos-phenolic resin felt
• 100 gal. drop tanks made from 'Durestos' asbestos-reinforced phenolic by Bristol Aircraft Ltd.

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