I'm starting a new WWI replica project on paper first, and I decided to go with a welded steel tube fuselage and aluminum wing structure and not a wooden wing structures (the original was a Fokker with all wood & large wooden box spars). I was talking to a experiencd friend to get his comments and he said that he would go the wooden wing structure avenue because he thinks that metal wing structures will have less longevity than the wooden structures (being homebuilt structures). He went on to say that the wooden structure have the advantage of everything bonded together to become one stronger mass. While the aluminum cannot have that characteristic and so some aluminum members can become over stressed. What's the consensus out there?
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