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balsa

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balsa
a very lightweight timber, easy to carve to fit limbs, used for making individual splints.


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Now, he has told how he discovered the joys of planes made from balsa wood and tissue paper.
Youngsters used computer-aided design and manufacturing software to design, analyse, build, test and race miniature gas-powered balsa wood racing cars along a track.
1947: The Kon Tiki expedition set out with Thor Heyerdahl, aiming to prove that ancient cults could have sailed on a balsa wood raft from Peru to Polynesia.
 
 
 
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