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I think I have the original sheet metal on the roof of my wife’s chicken house.
It’s about time they bring the miracle of corrugation to aeronautics.
Rimowa?
♬ Rimowa, oh Rimowa
Oh Rimowa, oh Rimowa
Oh Rimowa, oh Rimowa
Oh Ree-mo-wumba-way…
♬ In the hangar, the spacious hangar
A Legend Grows New Wings… ♬
Oh, sorry. Got distracted a bit. Very cool, building replicas of classic airplanes. People can fly them without endangering the originals. Personally, I’m holding out for a Hurricane. (Who am I kidding? I’d take a 172.)
It was kind of a miracle in it’s day. With corrugated skins airplanes became lighter without giving up strength, and even on the wing surfaces at the low air speeds of those planes there was no great loss in lift efficiency.
Indeed. We can build airplanes lighter, stronger, and faster nowadays, but it was a great improvement over the tube-and-fabric of the era.
The F.13 had a cruise speed of 99 mph, and a top speed of 107 mph. A Cessna 150 would outrun it. A Cessna 206 is faster by two-thirds and carries the same number of people – and it does it more economically. The F.13 replica might be slower and more expensive, but it has undeniable style. 