Hatfield

I converted my double garage and seven of us worked from the garage.

But now we've got a shop in Brookmans Park Village, which is a lovely village in Hertfordshire, close to Potter's Bar in Hatfield.

And we share an office with the mortgage brokers.

And I've still got some staff that work in my home office.

I have done.

Of course, I've done the sponsorship of all the fates.

At the beginning, we were all in the Welling and Hatfield Times, the local paper.

You name it, we've been on it.

So I went to a further education college in a neighbouring town called Ware.

I'm from Hatsfield in Hertfordshire.

And that meant that I was travelling everywhere.

Again, outside my immediate community, I was at a college.

The Abwehr, I think.

In December 1942, the Germans parachuted him into Britain with orders to sabotage the de Havilland aircraft factory in Hatfield.

Andrew.

Yes.

Yeah,

that sounds like a good idea to me.

The Germans parachuted into Britain with orders to sabotage the de Havilland Aircraft Factory in Hatfield, which was producing the highly effective Mosquito Bomber.

Well, they should have probably chosen some bigger targets.

The country is running on fumes and stubbornness.

And at de Havilland Aircraft Company in Hatfield, England, a beautiful slender twin-engine airplane rolls out of the hangar.

It looks like nothing else flying.

Long tapered nose, two powerful engines hanging under a high aspect ratio wing, graceful elliptical tail surfaces almost delicate from a distance.

It is built almost entirely out of wood.

This is Radio Hangar.

I'm TailDrager, and today on The Hangar we're going back to Hatfield to talk about the de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito, the airplane the Air Ministry didn't want the airplane that survived being canceled, survived being doubted, survived being dismissed as obsolete before it ever left the ground.

and then went on to become arguably the most versatile, most feared, and most beloved combat aircraft of the entire Second World War.