No 1 AFC

Found on a www.digger history ..blah blah site, easier to find by SEARCH engine as" The Sister Sarah Cousen Collection 2"
pics of various planes. About 5. Note the German plane. Are they wooden wheels?

Quite possible, I'd say. As far as I know, steel - and indeed any other metal - was at a premium in the Reich, and the Raw Materials Office experimented with replacing metal equipment with wooden ones; it seems likely that at least some of these planes were equiped with wooden wheels, possible just as a test.

[wolfenbill]

I haven't seen the pictures but we've used wooden wheels to temporarily hold a new aircraft in its proper position. Using standard wheels is ok, but only if you have them at the time. And wooden wheels are not subject to puncture from odd bits of hardware and scrap that may be lying about the shop floor.

O K. Sorry. I'll do it the hard way. There are photos of RE8's F2b's, an inverted Martinsyde, a Bristol Monoplane, and a junked German aircraft that seems to have wooden wheels and solid tyres.
There was a thread a few months back asking about wooden wheels.
Check; http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-...rt/cousen2.htm