We all know the de Havilland ... of the Mosquito’s stringers. Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), found from Alaska to Northern California, nearly always along the coastline, is light and strong.

It makes sense that the documents were found at the Airbus facility; it was a de Havilland factory during the war, but much more recently serviced British Aerospace’s DH.98 Mosquito—the last ...

The De Havilland Mosquito was a fast light strike bomber and night fighter. It was built by the furniture industry, which was mostly based at its traditional centre in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it ... nighttime bombing campaigns was the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, at the time one ...

At de Havilland in 1943, a worker prepares wood strips for a Mosquito hull. Imperial War Museum Conceived as a light bomber, the World War II de Havilland Mosquito was designed to defend itself ...

George Stewart says he still "vividly" remembers the first time he went out on a de Havilland Mosquito 75 years ago. It was Sept. 1, 1943, and Stewart was just 19 years old. At 11 tonnes and ...

Yet, despite famously successful raids and immortalisation by the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster 633 Squadron, no de Havilland Mosquito ... advantages that the Mosquito's light wooden fuselage gave ...

The DH98 de Havilland Mosquito was regarded as the most versatile war plane and was used for fighting, bombing, reconnaissance and pathfinder missions. The wooden test aircraft, number W4050 ...

A group of people in Windsor have been working for 20 years on the rebuilding of a de Havilland Mosquito bomber and there's at least another 10 years of work left. A group of people in Windsor ...