To: Charles Martel
Seems surprising today that they had wooden hulls.
3 posted on
03/10/2016 7:41:14 AM PST by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: jjotto
Not surprising when there was no fiberglass yet. It was marine grade mahogany plywood, not your run-of-the-mill chipboard from Home Depot.
5 posted on
03/10/2016 7:43:51 AM PST by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: jjotto
Laminated wood was high tech back then. The British Mosquito bomber was made out of plywood too, as I recall.
6 posted on
03/10/2016 7:44:28 AM PST by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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