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Tim Spears
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20 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

Ash also contains less acid, so metal fixing will last long. This is its favoured over other timber such as Oak, for Mogan car chassis.

Mosquitoes apparently used balsa (in a sandwich construction with birch ply for the skin), ash off structural bits, and Douglas for stringers and other bits, and Sitka for the wing spar. 

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Just now, openspaceman said:

Biggest aircraft that ever flew (just) in WW2 was nicknamed the spruce goose

Gotta thank the father for the most successful (at the time) Drilling Bit for that. Howard Hughes, now Baker Hughes 

 

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I’m a sailing boat nut and it’s big for spars. That and something called Columbian pine? Howard Hughes’ bizarrely big plane was known as the Spruce Goose wasn’t it? Whoops - someone got there before me. 

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7 minutes ago, Mr. Ed said:

I’m a sailing boat nut and it’s big for spars. That and something called Columbian pine? Howard Hughes’ bizarrely big plane was known as the Spruce Goose wasn’t it? Whoops - someone got there before me. 

Columbian Pine is another name for Douglas Fir.  David Douglas was a British botanist, so the Americans tend to call it Columbian Pine!

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1 minute ago, Squaredy said:

Columbian Pine is another name for Douglas Fir.  James Douglas was a British botanist, so the Americans tend to call it Columbian Pine!

I did not know that. I cut one of them in four today and moved it down to the yard. 

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Columbian Pine is another name for Douglas Fir.  David Douglas was a British botanist, so the Americans tend to call it Columbian Pine!



He was a Scottish Botanist. I know I sound like a pendant but successful Scots always seem to be labelled British when it suits the English.

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He was a Scottish Botanist. I know I sound like a pendant but successful Scots always seem to be labelled British when it suits the English.

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Yes just when it suits the English it becomes British ....
FFS ... It really is opinions like your yours which make me feel like some Scott’s should **************** off and stay your side of the border and watch brave heart all day long on repeat ... maybe get trump involved and build a big wall ... either way nationalistic pricks if you got there own way would you still carry on winging ??
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