Todd Secrest
Airman
- 35
- Jan 16, 2016
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The Hurricane and Mosquito both used a lot of wood in their construction, but would assume they were built differently?
Any know the differently in their building techniques?
Hi
.....The Mosquito was a wooden aircraft using a ceder ply and balsa wood fuselage and wooden wings, it was a wooden aircraft.....
Mike
But with the engine covers and wings combined with the lattice behind the cockpit it still has a Hurricane shape. (great pics BTW)Well, not quite. If you remove the wood from a Hurricane, the lattice looks like this:
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With the wood:
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...... with a hurricane shaped metal lattice behind the pilot.......
I was referring to various pics you can find on the net of burned out Hurricanes, they still look like Hurricanes. The Hurricane wasn't a wooden plane, it just used some wood. Its girder structure and engineering design wasn't based on wood, when it changed from dope covered to metal skinned wings it got lighter, the original design strength came from a metal lattice structure not from the wood.True, but I was responding to this part:
The pics are of RCAF Hurricane 5389 taken during its restoration.
The plywood inner and outer skins were typically birch, not cedar. The only "soft" plywood was in the nose of the fuselage ahead of the rad intakes.
Could the wooden parts be replaced with metal? Were Canadian Hurricanes made of wood?Well, not quite. If you remove the wood from a Hurricane, the lattice looks like this:
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With the wood:
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Could the wooden parts be replaced with metal? Were Canadian Hurricanes made of wood?
Could the wooden parts be replaced with metal? Were Canadian Hurricanes made of wood?