Nicknamed the “Wooden Wonder” for its timber airframe, it was as loved by RAF crews as it was feared by the enemy. Yet of the four British combat aircraft that attained iconic status during the Second ...
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No armor, no guns and somehow unstoppable – the Mosquito’s wild gamble
How did a fragile, unarmed, wooden plane become one of the most feared aircraft of WWII? The de Havilland Mosquito defied ...
More than 20,000 technical drawings of a World War Two aircraft have been found at a factory in Flintshire. Blueprints of the Mosquito were thought to have been lost but were discovered by Airbus in ...
The restored W4050 was wheeled out on 25 November 2015 at 14:45 GMT, the exact time that Geoffrey de Havilland Jnr, first flew the plane from de Havilland's Hatfield factory hangar The museum born ...
Akaer of Brazil is presenting a conceptual twin-engine multi-role aircraft called the Mosquito at the 2019 LAAD Defence & Security exposition that, if developed, would be the company’s first aircraft.
Beaufort County’s aircraft used to combat mosquito are grounded, but not because of the recent stormy weather. A fixed-wing airplane and a helicopter used to spray the bugs are out of service, ...
LONDON—A team headed by Spirit Aerosystems will lead the development and demonstration of a low-cost unmanned combat aircraft that could go on to operate as a loyal wingman for the UK’s Typhoon, F-35, ...
A one-of-a-kind Mosquito fighter bomber will take to the skies next year to headline the Wings Over Wairarapa airshow. The de Havilland Mosquito has been confirmed for the January show, where it will ...
EVERETT — The airplane is in parts — fuselage, wings, engines, control cables, propellers laid out in a hangar corner at the Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field. More than 7,700 were built. Yet, ...
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