Metal Mosquito built massively in the US

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You consider everyone to be a fool. The nonsense of your I beam analogy presumes that structural steel is chosen for strength not cost, structural steel is gash steel, marginally better than rebar, I hope that doesn't hurt your structural engineer sensibilities. I have read a lot on the construction of the Mosquito and things like finite analysis, the way you address the topic is like a biologist talking of moo cows and baa lambs. Now, about the Bauschinger effect?
 
Here is one you will like (seriously its so funny) An engineer who used to be my boss phoned the company I worked for and said "we have done a critical analysis and for the fibre stress involved with these pipes they are perfectly acceptable". The coordinator said to the engineer (wait for it, it really is funny) don't waste my time with this stupidity, the specification says "no cracks", you fool (I knew you would see the funny side of an engineer being an ass). The engineer didn't waste the coordinators time again. I spent my life surrounded by engineers, exactly half of whom were trying to blow smoke up my ass. The clever people are not the engineers who work with standards but the ones who write the standards, and in my lifetime I worked with three of those, two of whom introduced the super duplex stainless steel pipe to market.
 
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Gentlemen, please play nice!
I worked with some very exotic and expensive alloys and top end engineers from all over the world. I will not be talked down to by "bob the builder" there are some top end engineers from aeronautics who don't feel the need and manage to actually discuss aircraft and their construction without being the big "I am" they are also absolutely precise about what they are actually discussing. That's because they are proper engineers who are at all time and in all cases precise.
 

That's fine, again play nice or for starters this thread disappears and I don't think anyone really wants that!
 
Man, all this gibberish learnt at university about the properties of metals? When I did my engineering papers I learned lots in Materials about composition of metals, fasteners, tensile strengths and all that, but absorbed very little that was of practical use as an engineer at my level, for example, if you can't fix it with a hammer, it's an avionics issue. And so on...
 

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