The Luftwaffe’s Do.335 Pfeil was designed to take down the de Havilland Mosquito — but never saw combat. Did you survive that ...

That was three years before the father of quantum mechanics found himself strapped to the felt-lined insides of a de Havilland Mosquito with only an ill-fitting helmet, a reading light ...

Hearing two Rolls-Royce Merlin 25 V-12 engines come to life on a de Havilland Mosquito is something I’ll never forget. At East Kirkby, I watched as the ground crew prepped the legendary wooden w ...

A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it a fantastic top speed of 415 miles per hour. During World War II, the Allied nations had ...

De Havilland Mosquito – From Unwanted Pest to Hero However, the warbird (yes, I’m using an avian metaphor for a plane named for an invertebrate) had some hurdles to overcome before attaining ...

When a Messerschmitt Me 262 launched an attack on a British Havilland Mosquito over Munich during World War II, it made history as the first fighter jet to engage in combat. The technological ...

Experience gained from the production of this primarily wooden, sleek, high speed racer went on to inform the design of the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, a light bomber that entered RAF service in ...

Though de Havilland would develop some successful military aircraft (7,780 of the aforementioned Mosquito were manufactured), one of the company's better-known and most innovative jets was ...

The ex-RNZAF de Havilland DH98 Mosquito NZ2308 is weeks away from the end of a fifteen-year restoration in Auckland and the American owners have generously agreed to allow the aircraft to fly at ...

They’re superficially similar, but in reality very different. They share a muscular twin-engined layout – Geoffrey de Havilland thought Mosquito prototype looked like it was ‘largely made up of ...

They used the hall as a base to develop the de Havilland Mosquito, away from other work at the main location. The development team worked on the prototype, and construction then began in buildings ...

and the de Havilland Mosquito. “People love the sturdy, understated look of the Super AVI, but not everyone has the wrist to pull off the extra-large size that gives it its authentic tool-watch ...