Essential and Dispensible WW2 aircraft.

On 15 Oct, 10:37, The Amaurotean Capitalist
wrote:

Big Snip

This
is why the Mesquito was even considered being made of wood.

Shortage of material did not govern the choice of building material
for the Mosquito. I'd be interested in seeing any evidence you have
that raw material shortage (as opposed to speculative planning for raw
material shortages which never materialised) influencing British
aircraft production. Having performed research on the original RAF,
MAP and Cabinet sources myself, I've never seen any.

Yes, initial design studies for the Mossie were based around the
rather lovely pre war Albatross arliner which was constructed
similarly.
One example though of a design propted by material shortage was that
appalling waste of sesign and production effort, the AW Albemarle.


SNIP

Funny thing, there were
more German AC shot down during the Battle of Britain by the Hurricanes than
the Spits.

Which is unsuprising when you consider that there were almost twice as
many Hurricanes involved than Spitfires.

More oddly Hurris got more kills in the whole of WW2 than Spits ( as I
have posted about previously) This was probably due to the widespread
use of Hurris abroad at critical times (Malta, North Africa etc) when
Spits were retained for home defence, arriving in theatre much later.

Snip

Gavin Bailey


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