In praise of wood aircraft modelers

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Pat Flannery - 11 Jan 2008 12:33 GMT

Especially the ones that don't crack up while doing the hundreds of
turbine blades one-by-one. :-)
From "Modern Mechanix" - behold rapid prototyping, 1948 style:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/08/wooden-jet-mockups/
It would be fun to know what happened to these in the years after they
were made.

Pat

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kim - 11 Jan 2008 17:10 GMT

> Especially the ones that don't crack up while doing the hundreds of
> turbine blades one-by-one. :-)
> From "Modern Mechanix" - behold rapid prototyping, 1948 style:
> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/08/wooden-jet-mockups/
> It would be fun to know what happened to these in the years after they
> were made.

There was story around the same time about Britain's ill-fated "Brabazon"
airliner. Carpenters had been asked to build a simple mock-up of the
fuselage for training purposes but being the skiled craftsmen they were
proceeded to build an exact replica of the interior with luxury bar and full
interior trim at an eventual cost of a million pounds.

(kim)

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someone@some.domain - 11 Jan 2008 17:18 GMT

>Especially the ones that don't crack up while doing the hundreds of
>turbine blades one-by-one. :-)
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>Pat

you have way too much time on your hands young man. i suggest you keep busy by
organixing my kits and tuning my motorcycles. after all, idle hands are
useless to me....

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In praise of wood aircraft modelers