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In the first article in this series, we look at how a European chair company invested in the world by pioneering mass manufacturing, modularity, bent wood, tubular steel, catalogs, composites, and more to form a seed that helped to make the modern globalized world. Now we look at how the De Havilland Mosquito has influenced aviation.
World War II planes are all aluminum skins combined with steel for mounting components. Bombers were heavily armored flying fortresses in name, philosophy, and design. The De Havilland Mosquito was made of glued spruce, ash, fir, and birch. It was revolutionary. Wood components were bent or machined into shape and glued and screwed together. Many structural components and leading edges were plywood. Reinforcement was also out of wood. The plane’s fuselage was