Anzac, could you kindly rephrase your paragraph on food? The way it stands it seems somewhat contradictory...

As for aluminium in the Soviet aircraft industry, of course it was awfully important and the use of wood products was a second best choice, at the price of durability. This might be considered secondary as planes become obsolete quickly, and had a tendency to meet the ground faster than the pilot intended thus putting a premature end to its service life.

Many planes were designed to use a lot of veneer+phenolic resin plywood in surface and structural members, there even being the well-known joke that LaGG really meant Guaranteed Varnished Coffins. But anyway there was no substitute for the real McCoy.

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