[lit-ideas] Re: Plywood bombs
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 22:08:08 -0700 (PDT)
Just reading the subject line, I thought Robert was
describing a visit to IKEA...
Borrowing methods from airplane construction, Alvar
Aalto and others designed furniture out of bent wood.
There is an intense ongoing debate on which has killed
more people, De Havilland Mosquito or Stool #60
(http://www.artek.fi/en/products.html?Id=60).
Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
--- Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If there were any, they were surely dropped by De
> Havilland Mosquitoes.
>
> "Officials in the British Air Ministry vehemently
> resisted building it,
> but from the day production finally began in 1941
> until the war ended,
> the Royal Air Force never had enough Mosquitoes to
> perform the amazing
> variety of missions that air tacticians devised for
> this outstanding
> airplane. It excelled at day and night bombing from
> high or very low
> altitudes, long-range reconnaissance, air-to-air
> combat in daylight and
> darkness, and finding and striking distant targets
> at sea. No less than
> forty-two distinct versions of the D. H. 98 entered
> service. At extreme
> speeds, Mosquitoes carried heavy loads great
> distances because of two
> key design features: a lightweight, streamlined,
> wooden airframe
> propelled by powerful, reliable engines. The "Wooden
> Wonder" was
> constructed from Alaskan spruce, English ash,
> Canadian birch and fir,
> and Ecuadorian balsa glued and screwed together in
> new, innovative ways,
> and motivated by the world's finest reciprocating,
> liquid-cooled power
> plants, a pair of Rolls Royce Merlins. There has
> never been a more
> successful, combat-proven warplane made of wood."
>
>
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/dehavilland_mosquito.htm
>
> Robert Paul
>
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