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Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr (Post 1651605)

Original Mosquito was basically wood & glue with some metal. Amount of nails used - 2000 - only to fuselage sounds quite high but I don't know what was case with original Mosquito. :hmmm:

What ever is the case there must be significant engineering adjustment to allow building down scale version.

Guess wood screws weren't used then.

My bad.

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Originally Posted by MaddogK (Post 1652029)

Guess wood screws weren't used then.

My bad.

They didn't use wood screws. :) Wings of Mosquito were built of layers of plywood skin with different wood types forming inner structure all (mostly) put together with adhesive. Exceptions were control surfaces which were either aluminium or aluminium with canvas skin and wingspar also made of aluminium. Whole idea of Mosquito was to spare metals by using as much wood as possible. Here is nice quote from Reich Minister of Aviation Göring:

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"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again..."
– Hermann Göring, 1943