That's interesting, Bill.
The upshot is that we have very few Mossies around, and I don't know of any
flyers.
But, I suppose they did their job when they were needed; no one planned for
them to last longer than as many missions as they could fly.
Chris
On 12 Sep 2011, at 17:49, Bill Pearce wrote:
> It was explained to me by my father, the aircraft engineer, that the big
> problem with the mosquitos was the glue. The plywood was glued together with
> a glue that was like crack for some sort of microorganism, and the poor
> things were carefully and fully delaminated.
>
> Don't know if he was right, but as a structural engineer, he knew a very
> very little about wood, just what he learned in his first job at Stearman.
>
> Bill Pearce
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