Originally Posted by
melmothtw
'Marinised' in the sense that the airframe was manufactured using the dry-rivet process to prevent salt corrosion. This was a UK-specific requirement that didn't find its way onto the US Army's platform of an equivalent age.
Are you 100% sure? I ask because I know that there was some discussion at the time of a different manufacturing technique for UK aircraft (it was called "wet assembled" in the UK) but in the end I'm pretty sure the aircraft were built exactly as the US fuselages were. What's the dry-rivet process?
When the first UK Apache went to sea on HMS OCEAN for trials, external caulking was applied at Yeovil as a nod to marinisation. Was this also done for Ops e.g. ELLAMY?