WOOD IN BRITAIN’S FIGHTING PLANES
Wood is important in the construction of 41 different types of British aircraft and makes up approximately onethird the weight of all British planes. Most of the wood used comes from the United States and Canada. All of the well-known British fighting planes (Stirlings, Wellingtons, Lancasters, Whitleys, Beaufighters, Blenheims, Halifaxes, and others) contain wood from North America. Even the tires contain rayon thread produced from wood cellulose—U.S. 0.W.1. News Bulletin.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 17 April 1944, Page 3
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