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Originally Posted by Graham Boak
the main component of the Mosquito was not balsa but Spruce
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Let's remember also about the US contribution in Mosquito. That aircraft was skinned with the American plasticized birch veneer manufactured by the Pluswood Inc., which in fact was a consortium of three companies -- the Northern Hardwood Veneers Inc., Lullabye Furniture Corp. and Algoma Forest Products Ltd. The Pluswood skin (called during WWII the "wood alloy") was far lighter than duraluminum, highly resistant to fire and abrasion, and had very good weight-strength ratio.