Legacy
The DH.88 might have been the last of the high performance wooden aircraft but for a shortage of metal for aircraft construction during the Second World War. As it turned out, experience with the DH.88 would be put to use in designing one of the war's finest aircraft—the de Havilland Mosquito.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)