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Article: DEATHS ELSEWHERE
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 15, 1989
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RONALD BISHOP
Airplane Designer
Ronald Bishop, 86, who designed Britain's wooden Mosquito bomber
in World War II and the Comet jetliner shortly after the war, died
June 11 in London. The cause of death was not reported.
He joined the De Havilland company when he was 18 and worked his
way through the metal, fitting and engine workshops before entering
the drawing office in 1923.
The Air Ministry rejected his idea for a fast bomber built of
wood a year before the war began. But Mr. Bishop and the company
built it anyway. The DH-98 Mosquito, the "Wooden Wonder," became one
of the most versatile military planes ever built for day and night
fighting, bombing and photographic reconnaissance.
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