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Old Dec 2, 2011 | 12:21 AM
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What ever happened to rivets?
 
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Old Dec 2, 2011 | 07:11 AM
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Horse and buggy, old man.

Horse and buggy...
 
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Old Dec 2, 2011 | 09:08 AM
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Shucks 180, I had a American Aviation AA1A in 1972 that had no rivets, was all bonded honeycomb aluminum.
Quite the bee's knees in those days.
Come to think of it now, that was to private aviation then what the Crossfire is to automobiles now.
 
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Old Dec 2, 2011 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by alaxfire
Shucks 180, I had a American Aviation AA1A in 1972 that had no rivets, was all bonded honeycomb aluminum.
Quite the bee's knees in those days.
Come to think of it now, that was to private aviation then what the Crossfire is to automobiles now.
How about laminated wood aircraft - the Mosquito.
[1.0] Mosquito Origins & Variants
 
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Old Dec 2, 2011 | 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by onehundred80
How about laminated wood aircraft - the Mosquito.
[1.0] Mosquito Origins & Variants
Yep, the Brits had a real winner there.
 
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Old Dec 4, 2011 | 01:26 PM
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I was just looking at the 787 specs. Man, the plane can do pretty well all tasks w/o the pilote's intervention. I can see pilots getting bored of flying one of those. I can imagine a complete system crash and the pilotes not knowing what to do to actually fly the plane!
 
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