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Classic Wings Magazine WWII Naval Aviation Research Pacific Luftwaffe Resource Center
When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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paulmcmillan wrote:
Got mine great as always

Just seen La-7 article that seems a crazy way to build a fuselage !


Paul

Yeah I was a bit unsure about it, I 'think' this is the fuselage mold but couldn't quite get that clear in my correspondence with the builders. They also sent photos of the tube frame.

On another subject, got a nice surprise after receiving an email from Thomas Farrell about the article on Flak-Bait- he is the son of regular FB pilot 'Boss' Farrell. He has kindly sent a few photos which will run in the next issue.

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Yeah I was a bit unsure about it, I 'think' this is the fuselage mold but couldn't quite get that clear in my correspondence with the builders. They also sent photos of the tube frame.


Could be "poor man's plywood." Criss-crossed thin layers of wood with glue in-between. It would take some time, but anyone with a saw to slit thin pieces of wood could accomplish the task. Fiberglass accomplishes the same thing nowadays.
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Old post on Flypast says

"It was also made of complex wood-laminate and wood-plastic products which no one has managed to reproduce since the 1940's. "


I wonder if that is the complex wood laminate process
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