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I agree with Dan-San (wow; what a surprise). The only reason light aircraft today aren't built the way the 14-18 machines were is that the latter were a rhymes-with-witch to repair and maintain. That magnificently strong and resilient structure came at a cost: the hundreds of turnbuckles that actually maintained the aircraft's structure had to be adjusted pretty much every time the machine landed. Very few owners of light aircraft today could afford the army of riggers needed to maintain a machine built in this way. Obtaining manpower was less of a problem in 14-18.
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