The Moskito
When it first emerged in 1941, Luftwaffe officials were astounded by the superior combat performance of a brand-new aircraft introduced by the Brits, the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito. This light and blazingly fast bomber, constructed mostly of wood, was often able to break through German defenses effortlessly to strike its targets. Of the British plane, Hermann Göring famously said [QUOTE] “It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminum 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?” The Luftwaffe so badly wanted an aircraft with similar potency that they would build their own, even giving it the same name. The new Focke-Wulf Ta 154 would be called the “Moskito”… spelled M-O-S-K-I-T-O.
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