What is the material used to make an airplane's body?

Question

What is the material used to make an airplane's body?

Answer 1

it is probably alluminium because it is the lightest metal it is neccasary for an airplane to be lightest in wieght

Answer 2

Most commercial aircraft use aluminum sheets (7076T6)

Some (most notably, American Airlines) that have a polished skin instead of paint use "Alclad", which is a thin, highly polished veneer of aluminum bonded to the 7076T6 skin.

Answer 3

For large airplanes, usually aluminum.

Newer airplanes (787, business jets) have carbon fiber reinforced plastic fuselages.  A350 will also.

Answer 4

Aluminium for most of the skin, actually is ALCLAD used, which is a special type of aluminium alloy. Most of rivets and structure is made of DURAL, which is other aluminium based alloy, and parts subject to higher stress are made of steel, an titanium. Many aircraft have also parts made of composite materials (commonly named as plastic) used as streamliners.

Answer 5

aluminum

Answer 6

aluminium but as newer planes r constructed like the 787, carbon fibre is used more often

Answer 7

The main material for most aircraft is aluminum. Some aircraft use other materials, though. Smaller planes are being built more and more of carbon composites and some now are 100% composite. Even larger planes are being built with a combination of aluminum and composites. Military aircraft have the widest variety, though. The Sr-71 is primarily titanium, while the MiG-27 and MiG-31 are made of steel and titanium. Some light aircraft are still built with cloth skin.