The de Havilland Mosquito was the “Wooden Wonder”—outrageously fast, and formidable. But it wasn’t the only aircraft fashioned from timber. In an age when aluminium promised the future, war forced ...

MOSCOW, December 23. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia's first famous airplane Ilya Muromets (Elijah from Murom) made its first flight near St. Petersburg exactly one century ago, becoming the prototype for many ...