Originally Posted by
tartare
... but he told me some of the production of the Mosquito was outsourced to English furniture factories during the war.
He said they had to work to watchmaking tolerances in wood.
Lofting of complex curves and radii - all done by hand on paper - he said recreating it from the DH documents he was able to get copies of was an enormous task.
And after the war, English furniture designers and manufacturers used what they had learned to make whole new styles of furniture. They had the techniques down pat.
Interested in the structure of the fuselage. I looked at building a sailing boat which used a similar technique, except that the skins were fibreglass rather than wood veneer. However, the balsa was laid perpendicular to the outer veneers, ie, the grain ran from inside to out, rather than across, at right angles, to the skins. I couldn't see the structural advantage of doing it that way, and I've never seen it done that way anywhere else.