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Brockpaine

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Thursday, August 20th 2009, 3:34pm

Manhours to build planes

Does anyone have any information about how many manhours it takes to build 1940s-era planes? Say, 1,000 manhours to build a Spitfire versus perhaps 15,000 to build a B-29?

Hrolf Hakonson

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Thursday, August 20th 2009, 4:33pm

The numbers I've seen are around 4500-5000 hours for a Bf-109, 5000 for a Hurricane, 5000-5500 for a Fw-190, 13,000 hours for a Spitfire, 55,000 man-hours for a B-17 in 1941 (by 1944, it was down to 19,000), a B-29 cost 157,000 man-hours when production started, by the end of February, 1945 that was down to 57,000.

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Thursday, August 20th 2009, 4:41pm

Aha. Do you know of any good sources where I can find listings for more aircraft?

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Thursday, August 20th 2009, 4:43pm

Not really, those numbers I turned up with searches on type of aircraft and man-hours.

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Thursday, August 20th 2009, 9:22pm

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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
Not really, those numbers I turned up with searches on type of aircraft and man-hours.

Would you happen to know the figures for a Fieseler Fi 156? I tried looking that up as a way to compare fighters with lightweight types and couldn't find anything.

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Friday, August 21st 2009, 12:11am

Not the Fieseler, but the Piper L-4 Cub needed 300 hours during the WWII years. I expect the Fieseler was a little more complicated by it's extra STOL features adn the folding wings.

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Monday, March 1st 2010, 5:08pm

See under Economic production for some interesting stats on manhours

http://www.alternatewars.com/WW2/WW2.htm

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Monday, March 1st 2010, 5:12pm

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Originally posted by Vukovlad
See under Economic production for some interesting stats on manhours

http://www.alternatewars.com/WW2/WW2.htm

SWEET!!!

Now that's the kind of resource I've been looking for!

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Monday, March 1st 2010, 5:50pm

I agree a very interesting site with some very interesting stats.