Comment by anovikov
1 year ago
It wasn't at all "designed to manufacture", it was an incredibly hard to build aircraft, requiring labour of extremely skilled carpenters as it was built of large number of wood elements requiring a very high precision of shapes to tightly fit together. Incredible pain in the ass to manufacture and no one else in the world could repeat a similar project. But the result was worth it.
Well, in the sense that it could be built by a much more available manufacturing skill and more available materials. I know that's not about ease for the workers but it made production much easier overall.
Nope; the manufacturing skill required was exceptionally rare, it's a lot harder than riveting aluminium sheets - any housewife could do it. Carpentry requires years and years of skill build-up, wood is unforgiving material. Mosquito production always struggled with shortage of people who could be taught how to do it.
You cannot rivet aluminium that you don't have presumably.