WHEN AIRBUS INDUSTRIES prepared to bulldoze a small World War II-era building at its Broughton, England facility last August, the crew found something astonishing: thousands of forgotten 80-year-old technical drawings for the de Havilland Mosquito, at one time the fastest aircraft in the world. Demolition was halted while Airbus contacted The People's Mosquito, a U.K. foundation hoping to restore and fly a version of the Royal Air Force's versatile twin-engine bomber, and asked if they'd be interested in the documents.
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