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Every single picture of a WWII bird shows lots of rivets, you must not apply much zoom to be striken for hundred of them... until you watch pictures of Me210/Me410. Even in best pictures, and applying a good amount of zoom, barely can be distinguished a few rivets; those planes had almost no rivets!.
Here, the question: why?.
Did germans invented the epoxy too?
because a lot of german aircraft have the rivets covered by filler,
this was to give a more aerodynamic shape and made them slightly faster.
Sweb - broke out the "Standard aircraft handbook" - and Bill, spoken like a true engineer!!!!
The Germans were very good at riveting and in some places the sunk flush rivets would be almost totally smooth with the aircraft skin.
I've seen a Corsair in pieces under refurbishment, and from memory, most of the old stucture looked like it was spot-welded. I was told that during the refurb, they were replacing the spot-welds with dimpled flush rivets.
This was a while ago, and I've got a crap memory, can anyone shed any light on how common this was?