BALSA 5*100*1000mm STANDARD

Balsa board for building models of flying and boatbuilding models.

• thickness: 5 mm
• size: 100x1000 mm
  
• class: standard

Do you know that:

Balsa (Ochroma lagopus) is a tree species from the subfamily woolly (lighter than cork), found in the forests of South and Central America, as well as in the Antilles and Ceylon. The tree grows up to 15 meters, the leaves are egg-heart-shaped and the flowers are pollinated by bats! The hardness varies depending on the location (trunk cross-section), the closer to the center, the softer it is. It was used as a filling or insulating material in the construction of houses (of course in America). It was also used to build gliders and airplanes. The famous British WWII Mosquito was largely made of sandwich composites with the use of balsa.