Plastic windshields started showing up during the early part of WW2, acceptable optical quality was difficult to achieve in the vacuum or blow molding processes of the time, so the windshield was still a flat piece installed in a frame, as seen in this view of a Stuka cockpit.
Polymer / monomer. Chains of 'em... D.
ReplyDeleteActually a Spitfire cockpit, and I just found that the subject of varying specs and evolutions of this variously reinforced / bullet-proof front part of the windshield is a whole nother rabbit hole among modelists and rivet counters.
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ReplyDeleteThe caption of that picture insists that it's a Stuka, but I have more faith in you guys... :-)
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