[lit-ideas] Re: Plywood bombs
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:09:18 -0700
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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