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IT has been announced that a wooden construction aircraft, the Curtis C.76 known as the Caravan, has just been completed in the United States, being the first of its kind, in that country, to be designed especially for war transport purposes. It is a high-wing monoplane, powered with two 1,200 h. p. engines. It carries two pilots and a radio operator, and has a large cabin space suitable for the carriage of troops, guns, or other military equipment. The body is built specially low when standing on the ground, and the doors are arranged to facilitate the quick transfer of the contents. Outlets specially suitable for paratroops are also provided. An interesting feature of this development is that it represents, with several British contemporaries the most notable of which is the Mosquito day bomber, a return from metal to wooden construction that has taken place since the outbreak of war.
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Wooden Aircraft for War Purposes. Nature 151, 17 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151017a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151017a0