At the begins of the war Aluminum was still hard to make and the flying fortress bomber was mostly plywood. The PPY was plywood my dad flew in them , so at the end of the war it was almost all Aluminum , many converted over etc . So yes , but Aluminum is better because it's lighter but not stronger depending on how it broken etc . Drones by our US. forces are really over made today , like 30,000 dollars and up , but you can take hobby drones make them out of poster board and fly them in most weather miles and deliver a pay load for about $200 today . A crude example but the idea is you can get really cheap with this stuff today , so what are we waiting for ? The problem I can guess is the GOV is making this and thus $$$$$ .
They were mostly aluminum with some exceptions like the Mosquito, but yes they were simpler and were made quickly in great volume.
At the begins of the war Aluminum was still hard to make and the flying fortress bomber was mostly plywood. The PPY was plywood my dad flew in them , so at the end of the war it was almost all Aluminum , many converted over etc . So yes , but Aluminum is better because it's lighter but not stronger depending on how it broken etc . Drones by our US. forces are really over made today , like 30,000 dollars and up , but you can take hobby drones make them out of poster board and fly them in most weather miles and deliver a pay load for about $200 today . A crude example but the idea is you can get really cheap with this stuff today , so what are we waiting for ? The problem I can guess is the GOV is making this and thus $$$$$ .