Mosquito

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Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed: the aircraft the RAF didn''t think it wanted then couldn''t do without.

Flying on operations barely eighteen months after a single prototype wa...