"John Freck" wrote in message
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Why did you write the above? Today, a corporation specialized to
manufacturing small propeller aircraft for the leisure and corporate
market does exist.

I fail to see the link between the construction of modern small
leisure aircraft, which does NOT involve the construction of
engines, and the assembly of WWII aircraft engines.


As far as I know, the VEro Beach, Florida Piper plant is a full
assemble plant. Please back up your statement that the Vero Beach,
Florida Piper plant doesn't "do" complete assemble. The link is
conceptual. My case was purely conceptual as first before becoming
concrete. I defended these related notions and climed nothing more
for them than notions:

All related to options that an imgained SimWWII might allow from July
1st, 1940:

1) RAF fighter strenght can be increased.
a. Bomber command can provide fuel, skilled labor, and other goods and
services to fighter command.
b. Bomber production can be decreased quickly by allowing
manufacturing plants of bombers to loan to fighter manufacturing
plants skilled labor, materials, and other goods and services.


The first point a. seems to be the most controversial by just a bit.
I claimed from conceptual awareness backed by some brief statements in
interviews I have heard here and there on the USA's History Channel,
and a bit from reading--that fighter ground support can be strenghted
as to allow on *major bases* air plane manufacturing. The example
provided by Tex was the largest of 20 or so top tier maintance
facilities that manufactured a variety of new plane. The military
itself had military personnel and civialian military personnel
manufacturing new planes. Hundreds of second tier facilities existed
on airbases of less size, and smaller ones had third tier facilities.
In the fact of concrete evidnese that the military did do this very
similarly to my concepts based on real world understanding and bit and
peices of interviews and book mentions--you should drop out, drip in,
and tune on.

By the way a mini-mill is a metal recycling mill that uses finished
metals from junk, or large slabs or ingots of metal. The metal
milling at the plant mentioned by Tex isn't likely to be making
millions of tons of steel a year using iron ore just mined from the
earth close by. Nor did this plant likely have alumium smelters as
all alumium would be from 100% alumium content inputs be it from a
smelter in the form of ingots or from damaged parts of a plane.


I will Google for a few minutes in a new window.

I suggest you Google for shops capable of overhauling WWII
aircraft engines. You will find that these are highly specialised
in this business.


Today, I suppose, I wonder if the RAF can overhaul a Merlin today?
I wonder if the RAF will over haul a Euro-fighter? They will ship it
back
to some factory well away from any airbase, uh?

Why did you post the above information? Are you supporting the notion
that important and large fighters could not be built on and/or near a
large W.W.I.I. airbase.

On the contrary, they would as a rule be built on or near a large
airbase, because aircraft manufacturers needed to flight-test their
aircraft before delivery! There were a handful of exceptions; IIRC
Brewster built its aircraft in the city and some assembly was even
done on the second floor. That was, however, recognized to be
an absurd and undesirable situation.


Good. Airplanes are inherently made near airports, or airbases,
runways...


But no military airbase would be involved in the construction of
its own aircraft. They might do re-assembly of aircraft shipped
in crates, in itself quite a challenge.


Poor RAF just can muster the skilled labor, huh?
Too hard for them?


Your question specifically referred to assembling a new engine
from parts of *damaged* engines. This would be an extremely
foolhardy procedure, as absence of superficial damage would
by no means guarantuee that parts were still up to design strength.

So there was no recycling? Are you arguing purely from a conceptual
frame of reference?

Recycling parts is not the same as assembling engines. Normally,
bases would not be assembling engines, not even overhauling them;
they would be shipped back to the manufacturer or to a maintenance
center.



What do you thnk a "base" is? A maintenace center is compatible with
core military missions.
All bases and forts I have every been on have had maintenance centers.
The maintenance centers
are the factories I'm talking about, the mills I'm talking about...

I see you just wanted me to use the vocabualry right!

I read the read of your crap, it was crap.

John Freck