The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British military plane of great versatility during the Second World War.
He was affectionately nicknamed "Mossie" by its crews and also had other nicknames such as "The Wooden Wonder" (the Wonder of wood) or "The Timber Terror" (Terror of wood), since the cell was made of wood laminate. Was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and many other air forces in World War II, both in the European theater than in the Pacific and the Mediterranean, as well as in the postwar period.
Initially conceived as an unarmed fast bomber, the Mosquito was adapted to many other roles during the war, including: daytime tactical bomber low- and medium-altitude, high-altitude night bomber, indicator targets (Pathfinder), day or night fighter, fighter-bomber , strike aircraft and reconnaissance photo. It was also used by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as transport aircraft.
It was the basis for a heavy fighter named de Havilland Hornet.
During 1941, an influential member of the Anglo-Saxon world of science had to publicly declare that the use of wood in aircraft construction of a certain level, it was now considered outdated.
This statement would have been less categorical if the scientist had found November 25, 1940 in the field of English Hatfield and he could admire a beautiful twin-engine all yellow, which sowed the Spitfire and slipped a "tonneau" after another with one of the two propellers flag. That aircraft, in fact, was built entirely of wood and its level was likely to make it become a little later, one of the most deadly weapons of the RAF.