Comment by andyjohnson0

Thanks - I didn't know that. I guess I was using the term "airframe" as the generic term for the aircraft body, not to imply that its was composed of a literal framework. Thanks for the clarification.

My father was sent to a conflict zone (Malaya, now Malaysia/Singapore) and seems to have spent a fair bit of his time there repairing damage caused by ground-based small arms. Probably an exciting time for a twenty year old.