Editing Airframe (section)

=== Second World War ===
During [[World War II]], military needs again dominated airframe designs. Among the best known were the US [[C-47 Skytrain]], [[B-17 Flying Fortress]], [[B-25 Mitchell]] and [[P-38 Lightning]], and British [[Vickers Wellington]] that used a geodesic construction method, and [[Avro Lancaster]], all revamps of original designs from the 1930s. The first [[Jet aircraft|jets]] were produced during the war but not made in large quantity.

Due to wartime scarcity of aluminium, the [[de Havilland Mosquito]] fighter-bomber was built from wood—plywood facings [[Wood glue|bonded]] to a [[balsawood]] core and formed using [[Molding (process)|mold]]s to produce monocoque structures, leading to the development of metal-to-metal [[Adhesive|bonding]] used later for the [[de Havilland Comet]] and [[Fokker F27]] and [[Fokker F28|F28]].<ref name=AW161121/>