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To: Gaffer
The rivets would have been aluminum, like the majority of the airframe.
Some steel rivets are used where more strength is needed - a patch over a window opening (an odd modification) would not be such a case.
9 posted on 10/30/2014 8:39:17 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: grobdriver

Yes, why would you patch over a window like that? It seems strange. Maybe she really was on a spy mission for the Navy, as some have suggested over the years.


23 posted on 10/31/2014 9:41:29 AM PDT by rdl6989
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