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Old 18-06-2008, 01:08 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Great stuff, but why do modern articles on WW1 biplanes always talk of "rickety" (or "frail") biplanes?
They were very strongly built; they had to be to cope with the conditions they had to operate in, to say nothing of combat stresses.
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