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I received the latest issue of Air & Space Smithsonian today. (www.airspacemag.com) 8 pages into it is a two page wide color photograph of a DH-98 Mosquito. The caption reads, and I quote;" Restored from the hull up by Avspecs Ltd in New Zealand, a de Havilland Mosquito poses over the Hauraki Gulf near Aukland before being shipped, via the Panama Canal, to Jerry Yagen's Fighter Factory/Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach. The "Wooden Wonder" will perform there on June 1; in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on June 15 and 16; and in Geneseo, New York, on July 13 and 14.

I would scan the picture in, but since it is two pages, it will not fit in my scanner or do proper justice. If you go to the website and explore, you are liable to find the photo. She is absolutely a thing of beauty.

I had heard years ago that a group in New Zealand were making molds of the Mosquito so they could build new aircraft just as they were built in the 40's. I will conclude that the rumors were true. I hope this gets someone excited besides me. (Did Mossies ever fly with HVARs, just to keep things on a rocket related topic?
 
OMG! Sorry about the teenaged expression- but that's where it comes from. These planes were so cool! I saw one fly in the late 50's/early 60's as part of a salute to "the Battle of Britain" and it was amazing. I believe it was actually faster than the Hurricane and maybe the earlier Spits, but the twin Merlins put out such a great thrumming as they weren't really sync'd-God what a beautiful sound! I really would travel in the US to see one of these again. I believe Britain had these for meterological obeservation up to the early 60's. There should be more, but they were wooden and decayed away pretty fast. Most were stripped and scrapped as fast as possible after the war because resources were hard to find. Just drive a 50's/60's Bristish sports car and you'll believe it! There was a great movie out (prolly early 60's again) that featured Mossy's-anybody know what that would be??
 
fyrwrxz said:
OMG! Sorry about the teenaged expression- but that's where it comes from. These planes were so cool! I saw one fly in the late 50's/early 60's as part of a salute to "the Battle of Britain" and it was amazing. I believe it was actually faster than the Hurricane and maybe the earlier Spits, but the twin Merlins put out such a great thrumming as they weren't really sync'd-God what a beautiful sound! I really would travel in the US to see one of these again. I believe Britain had these for meterological obeservation up to the early 60's. There should be more, but they were wooden and decayed away pretty fast. Most were stripped and scrapped as fast as possible after the war because resources were hard to find. Just drive a 50's/60's Bristish sports car and you'll believe it! There was a great movie out (prolly early 60's again) that featured Mossy's-anybody know what that would be??
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633 squadron---great flick
 
If you think the Mossie is cool , you need to check out the reproduction ME-262's coming of the line. Re-engined with GE-J85's, new avionics, brakes, etc.,etc. I have not seen one fly yet, but when one gets within 100 miles, I'll be there!
 
I have a copy of Squadron 633 with Cliff Robertson in my DVD collection. I went to the website I listed earlier and could not find the photo either, so I scanned it in. My regrets that it is of such poor quality, with the page fold and all, but it is the best I could muster. I also had to resize it to get it to be less than 2 megs in size.

FYRWRXZ, I believe the Mosquito was faster ( 415 mph for the B MkXVI) than Spitfires (Mk VB: 371 mph, unless Griffon powered), (which were faster than Hurricanes)almost as fast as Mustangs (437 mph) , and Me-109s(398 mph). That is why they could go on bombing and recon mission un-armed. And a Mosquito's bomb load was almost as much as that of a B-17. (4,000 lbs bomb load for a Mossie vs. 4,500 lbs for a B-17 on a long mission) (Wikipedia is the source of my footnotes)

I hope you like the photo. BEAR

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Didn't they build two of the Me-262's, re-engined for a flying museum? I saw this several years ago when I was still at the helicopter shop. (See www.stormbirds.com)
 
BEAR said:
Didn't they build two of the Me-262's, re-engined for a flying museum? I saw this several years ago when I was still at the helicopter shop. (See www.stormbirds.com)
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Seems there are more than a few--Some can be converted to two seat and back to single seat---price tag is something like 2.5 m. Sure would make a nice little personal biz jet----
 
I used to play a WWII flight sim (IL-2) and the Mossie was always a fun bird to fly. The Mossie did have one rocket loadout in the game and that was eight 60 pound rockets. They did a lot of damage. You could outrun most Japanese fighters in the game if you had fired all of your rockets, slammed the throttles to 110%, were undamaged and kept your radiator closed (minimized drag). You couldn't keep that up for long as the engine would overheat, but if you really kept an eye on the engine temp you could manage the throttle and radiator to keep ahead of the enemy. If you were damaged you almost always had to fight instead of running. And the Mossie was not a good dogfighter.
 
BEAR said:
I have a copy of Squadron 633 with Cliff Robertson in my DVD collection. I went to the website I listed earlier and could not find the photo either, so I scanned it in. My regrets that it is of such poor quality, with the page fold and all, but it is the best I could muster. I also had to resize it to get it to be less than 2 megs in size.

FYRWRXZ, I believe the Mosquito was faster ( 415 mph for the B MkXVI) than Spitfires (Mk VB: 371 mph, unless Griffon powered), (which were faster than Hurricanes)almost as fast as Mustangs (437 mph) , and Me-109s(398 mph). That is why they could go on bombing and recon mission un-armed. And a Mosquito's bomb load was almost as much as that of a B-17. (4,000 lbs bomb load for a Mossie vs. 4,500 lbs for a B-17 on a long mission) (Wikipedia is the source of my footnotes)

I hope you like the photo. BEAR

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Bear- thx for the reasearch. I didn't know the movie was on DVD. I guess everything is nowadays, eh?
 
BEAR said:
DH-98 Mosquito. ... Avspecs Ltd in New Zealand
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Using each of those as search terms on the website got no results.
However, plugging those in Google found https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/ZK-MOS.html
Airframe Info
Manufacturer: De Havilland Canada
Model: DH 98 Mosquito Search all De Havilland Canada DH 98 Mosquito
Year built: 1945
Construction Number (C/N): KA114
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Will bet airliners.net someone has posted a pick of it, will be back after looking.
Displaying photos 1 to 11 from a total of 11 matching your criteria ordered by
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3 of them
https://www.airliners.net/photo/De-Havilland-DH-98/2230121/&sid=fec8d7a8b4e3b372664e2aeaa98d44b4
https://www.airliners.net/photo/De-Havilland-DH-98/2222960/&sid=fec8d7a8b4e3b372664e2aeaa98d44b4
https://www.airliners.net/photo/De-Havilland-DH-98/2202694/&sid=fec8d7a8b4e3b372664e2aeaa98d44b4
 
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Sort of on the same thread...not a new bird, not a plane, Paul Allen (of Microsoft) just bought a restored V2 rocket for his collection. Story at:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/24/allen_v2/
I've cut a finger or two playing with the jet engines in the engineering building on campus, and I seem to remember sectioned V1 and V2 engines at the north campus engineering facility. Gotta get back out there with a camera. It's amazing what's stuck in the back corners of storage in the engineering and physics buildings.
 
I just realized I was at that museum in 2008 or 09 when my son graduated from college. My son took my brother and me to this place and we got an unexpected personal tour from the owner, who allowed us to sit in some of the warbird's. He did this in gratitude of my son being in the military and graduating college. He also gave us a personal air show by having a few birds take off and fly around. It was awesome! I don't remember all the details because my son and I were in discord of the W/E, long story.
 
For any UK members you can see a Mossie restored at the DeHavilland Museum just off the M25. Its a really nice little museum with a good collection of DH aircraft including a beautifully restored (but non flying) Mossie and a Vampire. It also has a knacked Sea Vixen at the back of the museum you can sit in if you want (I wanted :) ).

Its not a highly polished museum, more like a rebuild shed, but its a great walk round and not too expensive and not packed with grockles either. Well worth a look if you in the area.
 
I saw a Mossie flying at the airshow last June ,then did a walk around during it`s static on the apron.

A most beautiful plane either flying or standing still.

That`s was a great use for plywood !

Paul t
 
sodmeister said:
I saw a Mossie flying at the airshow last June ,then did a walk around during it`s static on the apron.

A most beautiful plane either flying or standing still.

That`s was a great use for plywood !

Paul t
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Does Canada have a mossie in the warbird museum?
 
dlazarus6660 said:
Does Canada have a mossie in the warbird museum?
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I don`t believe they do, and I`m surprised they don`t ,as they have many famous WWII British aircraft ,their flight worthy Lancaster being the crowning jewel.

The only flight worthy Mosquito was at the show this year.

Paul T
 

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