Eric The Viking
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I was looking for dinghy footage (see a thread in the Design forum), and came across this:
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=171
It's rather fun.
I did a lot of dinghy sailing as a youngster and always admired Fireflies - sometimes painted on the outside (for smoothness), but with all that beautiful wood showing on the inside. There's some 'interesting' use of machine tools too (don't tell Steve Maskery!).
IIRC, Heath's "Morning Cloud" series of bots were built in a similar way (laminated), but not steam cured - too big for that! I don't know what WW2 vessel had that technique used on it though - boat, or aircraft possibly.
Enjoy.
E.
PS: just found this: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=880. It's off-topic, but I learned to sail in one of these, about eleven years later!
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=171
It's rather fun.
I did a lot of dinghy sailing as a youngster and always admired Fireflies - sometimes painted on the outside (for smoothness), but with all that beautiful wood showing on the inside. There's some 'interesting' use of machine tools too (don't tell Steve Maskery!).
IIRC, Heath's "Morning Cloud" series of bots were built in a similar way (laminated), but not steam cured - too big for that! I don't know what WW2 vessel had that technique used on it though - boat, or aircraft possibly.
Enjoy.
E.
PS: just found this: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=880. It's off-topic, but I learned to sail in one of these, about eleven years later!