Sea Hornet

One of the first applications of the Redux process was in construction of structural aluminum parts for the de Havilland bomber Sea Hornet produced during World War II ([198], pp. 80-81 [202,203]). In the original fonn, it consisted of a two-part adhesive including a low viscosity liquid phenolic known... 

The first structural use of these adhesives was to bond friction material to steel in the clutches for Cromwell and Churchill tanks. Many metal-to-metal Aerospace applications followed in both military (Sea Hornet, F7 Cutlass, SAAB Draken) and civil (DH Dove, DH Comet, Fokker F27 to FI 00) aircraft. Indeed, today, they are still used in such aircrafts as the RJ 80 and the BAE SYSTEMS Hawk trainer. 

Oddly, the first use of Redux was not in a metal aircraft or to bond Gordon Aerolite components but in the essentially all-wood, long-range versions of the Mosquito the de Havilland DH103 Hornet and Sea Hornet the latter was the version intended for naval carrier use [11,18,19]. 

Many of the design concepts that were used in the Hornet and Sea Hornet are shown in Fig. 16. Sheets of aluminium reinforcement were Redux -bonded to... 

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