Available in copper, wet-painted white or brushed stainless steel, the PH Artichoke is surprisingly heavy, and must be mounted with stainless-steel aircraft cables.
The perfect-circle placement of the latticework perimeter, pulled taut by super-strong aircraft cable, makes the structure sturdier than any tent.
It is suspended by aircraft cables and raised to the ceiling of his Forest Hills, Queens, apartment when not in use.
This included importing aircraft cable and wire rope from Europe and Japan as well as distributing tools and fittings.
In 1974, they, became qualified to produce aircraft cable to US Government specifications.
Today, Loos & Co. manufactures a wide variety of wire, aircraft cable, and wire rope.
The diameter of a head block sheave used for galvanized aircraft cable is typically at least 48 times the diameter of the cable.
In addition, safety cables (a loop of aircraft cable terminated with carabiners) are used to support the lighting instrument in case the clamp fails.
So that was what sent people running, when a wind got up, to check tumbuckles, lengths of aircraft cable, dubious webworks of two-by-four fir.
The cable system uses reinforced nylon pulleys with sealed steel bearings and nylon coated aircraft cable rated at 2000 lb.