U.S Army Experiments With Plane Made With Plastic -- Brigadier General F. O. Carroll, chief of the Air Technical Service Command Engineering Division, inspects the first U.S. Army plane to have structural parts made of plastic. The rear fuselage section, tail cone and side panels are made of glass fibre plastic for testing purposes. The Army is conduction experiments to determine whether use of commercial planes and trainers. February 23, 1945. (Photo by U.S Office of War Information Picture).