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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>you are an absolute mine. Thank
you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Postings are overlapping, but we all seem to
be heading in the same direction.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aidrian (thank you for your posting, too) will
probably agree with me about common names - they are so misleading! "Lin"
or "Lyn" wood (both are correct as i and y were pretty much interchangable in ye
olde Anglysh) has, to an untutored eye, a similar appearance to
tulipwood.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All it takes is one boor with a little knowledge
and a bit of authority, to create identificational mayhem for years to come. You
can just hear it, can't you? -</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Chewlipwood? Whaddayamean "Chewlipwood"?
Chewlips is a flower, yer daft sod. Yer can't bilda door or hew a beam
from a buncha chewlip stawks! That, yer spindle-shanked mistake, is a
lumpa linden!!!"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hence your logical reasoning, Robert,
based on faulty information, that a "tulip tree" is a "lime".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let's hear it for Latin!!!! It really does
save a lot of problems.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>> On the Nieuports, the nose area was covered in narrow strips of
tulipwood, <BR>> which has nothing to do with tulips, but is apparantly a
"lin" wood as I've <BR>> seen it spelled...also "lynwood", which seems to be
linden or bass. On the <BR>> Nieuport 28 the tail feathers were covered like
this also. Almost a <BR>> "Pfalzish" method of covering.<BR>> <BR>> In
the Sopwith family, the areas around the cockpits and nose sides was <BR>>
coiered in birch 3ply.<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>