Known as dry rot, this fungus is caused by too much moisture content and can render wood unusable.” Corrosion will look slightly different in wooden ribs, spars, and longerons.

“The ailerons were different,” explains Rousseau. “One had wood ribs in it, the other had aluminum ribs. One [wing] had a metal compression rib, and the other a wooden compression rib.” ...

Built from wood yet massive in size, this bomber pushed aviation to new extremes. Few aircraft from the Great War matched its ...

At his shop, Schell and sons, Kevin and Toby, and grandson Jake worked steadily for four months to restore the Dragon’s tail and wings, replacing wood ribs where needed.

It features a lightweight modular system with a shell with wooden ribs arranged just like in a monocoque design, trying to replicate the structure of the WWII plane.

How a firm moved from making parts for luxury liners like the Lusitania to making war planes in WW1 and helped create Gloucestershire's world famous aircraft industry.