"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Actually, DH
(Great Britain) seems to have never quite caught on to getting
monoplane airliners quite right)


But boy could they make ugly biplane ones....did you ever notice how
much the fuselage on the H.P. 42 looks like that of a B-52?:
http://www.geo-davison.demon.co.uk/HP42.jpg

The Mosquitos also flew as singles, not in large formations that were
much easier to detect, easier to track, and which eliminated the
ability of single aircraft to maneuver to evade attack.

So. Not stealthy, just swift and devious. (And pretty danged good at
that).


IIRC, it had the lowest loss rate of any W.W. II combat aircraft.

Pat


After the war, I read that one of the first indications of the
use of jet fighters by the Nazis was that there was an increase of
the loss rate of Mosquitos because the jets were able to easily
overtake it.

I don't know how true that is and Nazi use of jet fighters came
very late in the war. Most of them were shot down by allied
fighter craft lurking near German airfields. The jets returning very
low or gliding in out of fuel were easy targets then.

Mike Walsh