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Re: 1/8th thick aluminum

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Originally Posted by NyCityKId View Post
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.
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.
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