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Originally Posted by NyCityKId
Don't get me wrong. Even though wood isn't the best, there isn't anything particularly wrong with wood as a structural material, but our team has always fallen back to wood as a last resort. So wood is a bit taboo. Wood doesn't have a very good strength to weight ratio anyway. There are reasons we use metal and composites over wood dope and fabric in aircraft structures nowadays.
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How many aircraft are routinely intentionally slammed into each other many times a day? After looking at the Thunderchicken's chassis at worlds last year, and comparing it to ours, I was very glad that ours was wood. There was a lot of dented, twisted metal on that very fine chassis.