
Alligator Bags, Lockers, Bench Planes, Deployable Flight Recorders
S15E10 · 2010-05-28 · 21 min
Selected alligator hides are cut, reinforced, stitched and finished into luxury handbags. Sheet metal is punched, folded and joined to make storage lockers; cast bodies, sharpened blades and shaped handles become woodworking bench planes; and protected recording units are enclosed in deployable housings designed to preserve aircraft data after an accident.
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