Good evening everybody!
I am new here so, long time lurker and i would like to expand a commento by @marathag :
What if Germany (protected better Tego film factory and) switched to wood ersatz aircraft?
Would they be better, worse o equal than metal OTL ones?
You have multiple choices and please, give me as more information as possible!
Bonus tip: were fibreglass aircraft possible back then? AFAIK no, but please, refute me.
May i also unshamingly bump another poll?
https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...red-during-xian-incident-japan-option.478792/
I am new here so, long time lurker and i would like to expand a commento by @marathag :
Aluminum can be lighter than fiberglass for construction, and laminated wood is a weaker composite than fiberglass. Another downside is Aluminum is isotropic, giving uniform strength in all directions, wood is anisotropic, so multiple laminations are needed to get strength in the required directions.
They have different fatigue as well.
Once you get to actual spun glass with resins, the strength to weight ratio is better than Aluminum alloys, but we aren't there yet with the layup used with the Mosquito, Duramold was close in strength, and had the advantage of no stress points from riveting, so in effect better than Aluminum
So, an Aluminum Mosquito would have been slightly higher performing
What if Germany (protected better Tego film factory and) switched to wood ersatz aircraft?
Would they be better, worse o equal than metal OTL ones?
You have multiple choices and please, give me as more information as possible!
Bonus tip: were fibreglass aircraft possible back then? AFAIK no, but please, refute me.
May i also unshamingly bump another poll?
https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...red-during-xian-incident-japan-option.478792/