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13 February 2009, 03:08 AM
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Windscreens material
What stuff they were made of?
Watching photos, I believe to detect two categories: glass (tempered?) or plastic (or something looking as plastic). Anybody knows? Thanks, GB
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13 February 2009, 03:53 AM
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Triplex.
Hello Greybeard,
Windscreens and goggles were made of triplex. This was - and still is - laminated glass consists of a tough protective interlayer made of plastic, placed between two plates of regular glass. Greetings Marek |
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14 February 2009, 02:16 PM
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The transparent plastic ones were of celluloid. Ransom
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14 February 2009, 04:15 PM
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Here is one of the crash photos of Fok. DrI 115/17. To my eyes this one looks to be made out of some kind of plastic.
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14 February 2009, 05:13 PM
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Most plastics were not invented until the 1930s and later. One plastic type material that was around during the war was cellulose nitrate or celluloid which is what Ransom mentions as being the material used. This was also the material used for early motion picture film.
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15 February 2009, 02:38 AM
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I got surprised when this morning entered the forum as visitor No.1 on counter! Seemingly server was down during last day or so and is now resetted.
Thanks to all of you, kind gentlemen, for your answers. So Triplex as glass and celluloid as plastic! Now I learn that laminated glass had been already invented, that's interesting. About celluloid (cellulose nitrate), once more I'm struck thinking of that pilot having an highly flammable in front of his face, adding to collection of dangerous stuff around him: no self-sealing fuel tanks, canvas doped with flammable stuff, wood, ammunitions and so on. 
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15 February 2009, 07:38 AM
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I hear what you are saying, but compared to the other things - doped fabric, thin dry wood resembling kindling, oil and gas coming out of the engine and possibly the gas tank if it were damaged, ammunition very close to the pilot, etc. - I think the small amount of celluloid that would have been laminated between two sheets of glass where the oxygen could not easily get at it to make it burn would not have been the major problem.
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