Alot of the older aircraft were wooden, you still have to learn to care for them in airframe and powerplant courses.

all the old planes were wooden. but not during WW2. They were all metal. Except the one I'm talking about.

The good old de Havilland Mosquito.

In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy.

The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that?


Hermann Göring, January 1943

thank you