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Originally Posted by mhuxt
That's great info - many thanks, will try to find that article.
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The WWII era American professional aviation press is full of extremely interesting articles on wooden technologies applied in the airframe structures written by the engineers, researchers, CEOs of various companies etc.
Writing his article on Mosquito Professor Nicholas J. Hoff foresaw very well such discussions as can be seen over here. He wrote among others:
"That wood construction can compete with and even surpass metal construction may seem strange to the nonspecialist in aircraft engineering."