Britain Had No Aluminum Surplus Early in the War — Forcing Aircraft Designers to Adapt
Автор: WW2 Dark Truth
Загружено: 2026-01-31
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When Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, they faced a catastrophic problem: they needed to triple aircraft production but Germany controlled all the aluminium. Enter Geoffrey de Havilland, a former bus designer who'd spent decades perfecting something the aviation world dismissed as primitive—wooden aircraft. His Mosquito bomber, built entirely from plywood and glue by furniture makers and piano builders, became the fastest, cheapest, and most survivable bomber of the war. Whilst the Allies lost hundreds of bombers trying to destroy German metal factories, Britain was churning out 300 wooden aircraft per month that outperformed everything German engineering could build. The nation that controlled European aluminium production got beaten by trees, adhesive, and an immigrant inventor nobody took seriously. German engineering came in second place.
#aviation, #history, #innovation, #engineering, #British, #Mosquito, #DeHavilland, #wartime, #manufacturing, #aerospace,
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