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    Quote Originally Posted by eb in oregon View Post
    Unlike the majority of WWII aircraft. There were very few with cloth skin, the Hurricane and Swordfish being two of the best.
    And the Vickers Wellington bomber as well:
    Early on, Vickers' chief structures designer Barnes Wallis proposed the use of a geodetic airframe, inspired by his previous work on airships and the single-engined Wellesley light bomber. During structural testing performed at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, the proposed structure demonstrated not only the required strength factor of six, but reached 11 without any sign of failure, proving the geodetic airframe to possess a strength far in excess of normal levels.
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