New planes in the news last week:
> Britain's fast, agile, twin Rolls-Royce Mosquito bomber has a wingspread of 54 ft. (comparable to the U.S. P-38 fighter). It carries four 20-mm. cannon and four machine guns, is used largely for daylight raids. The plane's wooden fuselage, designed to conserve Britain's metal supply, has under some circumstances proved less vulnerable to gunfire than light metal.
> Also a wood plane is the graceful (6,200-Ib.) Russian fighter T-18, or MIG-3, which has plywood in wings and tail as well as fuselage. A single...
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