Light and fast and often unarmed, Herman Goering complained about them because they attacked a radio station he was transmitting a speech from in Berlin!
The "wooden wonder" was THE aircraft that I used to love seeing at UK airshows, the sound of those RR Merlin's was music to my ears, enhanced by the sound of the two engines drifting slightly in and out of phase with each other. Incredible aircraft and one of the most vital aircraft used by the RAF in WWII. There's a Mosquito museum and restoration centre in Malta on the site of a disused airfield.
@mredsghost nope that's exactly what i'm saying, why using a million dollars plane/ucav with 20000$ missile to shoot one guy with an 500$ AK47...even an old newport 17 can do the job !
we really should use this kind of plane against taliban, no need to use a million dollars jet which can be shot down with a simple shotgun while this can straff anywhere and can resist multiple bullet impact (made in wood)
Apparently Hitler was so furious with what the Mossie did to the Reich that he ordered a German version of it to be made to return the favour to the British. The Gerries couldn't do it..... :D
Actually they did. The Ta-154 Moskito. It was actually faster and more manuverable than the De Havilland bird. The problem was it was near the end of the war and the glue factory used for the plywood was bombed out and they used substandard glue causing critical failures in some of the early birds, ending the life for the Ta-154 to a mere 50 units built, and less than that actually deployed.
They are selling pieces of the original prototype canvas patch with certifiacte on Ebay now to help toward the restorration of the very 1st Mosquito!!
Amazing aircraft, fast, high-flying, very long-range for the day, could carry a good bomb load, and was as agile as a fighter (some models were used as night fighters)
It was a known fault with this particular mosquito that the engine failed during WWII when attempting particular maneuvers, this is stated when you read the official report. When this particular maneuvers was attempted in 96 the engine cut out and the plane simply swan out of control. This was the last mosquito that was airborne worthy.
A mosquito in New Zealand is being restored at the moment and is due to be flown in its debut airshow in December this year. In Omaka
This so lovely to watch this aircraft flying, my hobby of Metal Detecting has found me a crashed Mosquito along with the aircraft it shot down in May 1944. I was able to talk to the Pilot of the Mosquito & he told me things about this Aircraft & wot it could do.
My favourite WW2 type. Great looks, high performance, big payload and unmatched versatility from revolutionary wooden design that didn't tax already precious strategic metals but brought the furniture industry into the war effort!
Far more than half of the right extremists inside Germany are snitchers of German secret services.I guess that the NAZIs in the US with their help are being guided and supported by the German BND as well. The BND is actually the NAZI Gestapo under a new name.
These right wing troublemakers are very useful to divert from German human rights abuses in the past and today.My brother Markus Bott had been tortured during five and a half years and was murdered on 11.7.09
The Germans admired the Mosquito immensely through out the war & really had no answer for it. Only their fastest machines had any chance of doing anything with it.
@kjclarke56 aha, and why exactly? royce engines were built amongst the most spreaded pattern, cylinders in a row, just sounds like a 16cyl, propably like a fat 16 cyl and in someones opinion for sure the best sounding common jet engine ... but the heinkels were stuffed with juno and bmw engines which sound totally different and are completely unique cause of its 4 in a row star construction... thats the fat sounding difference
The Wooden Wonder. A lot of things to a lot of pilots, and a plane I truly love.
The high wood content made it hard for radar to detect and it was so fast it could be used not only as a fighter-bomber but as an interceptor. If it was me in the thick of things I'd want a Mosquito to take me in, because I know she'll be just as good about keeping me in and taking me out again.
mosquito was a brilliant plane it could be a fighter, a bomber, a recon plane and a nightfighter, and i think it could go faster than the german aircraft becuase the bombers had no defensive weapons and relied on its speed.
yeah and another thing.numbnuts....you wanna learn yer history....cos I'm pretty sure you'll find the P51/Mustang was considered to be more or less useless for what it was designed for............until BRITISH engineers fitted it a Rolls Royce Merlin..yes ...a BRITISH engine.....and yes... the same engine as was in the Mosquito...if you're gonna mouth off at least learn your facts first.
@RattlesnakeBob Fuck him, speaks volumes about his life that he takes time out of his sorry life to try and pull us apart on videos about OUR engineering, ignorant clown needs a slap.
"We may be tiny and yeah were definately cool but we built a bit more than a couple of aircraft, dont forget the Lancaster"
And who was it who broke the Enigma code and built the first electronic computer? Oh, and we also managed to reclaim an Enigma machine too (although you may believe different if you believe what Hollywood tells you)
They should break out the old Forms and Glue pots and put a few dozen together so they won't die off,making jobs for out of work craftsmen,fleets of these would not be a bad thing.
It takes 2 or so Brits to fly a WOOD plane with merlins, it takes a single american to fly a P-38 Lightning. Although, you brits sound awesome when you cuss.
I can ignore the sound of a Harley Davidson, and I can snob the sound of a Ferrari. But the "chest pounding" sound of a 12-cylinder, 27-litre Merlin Engine turning a large propeller, and 2 at that?? No way.. It's just such beautiful music beyond melody and lyrics!!
I can ignore the sound of a Harley Davidson, and I can snob the sound of a Ferrari. But the "chest pounding" sound of a 12-cylinder, 27-litre Merlin Engine turning a large propeller, and 2 at that?? Its the kind of music that penetrates a man's soul, conveys masculinity, power grace and elegance. It's just such beautiful music beyond melody and lyrics!!
i worked at chester in the late eighties / early nineties. watched this thing buzz the completion centre hangars on many occasion. just wish mobiles and their cameras were around then..
makes the p38 seem like a cattle wagon, belive the mosy was the fastest aircraft for 3 years of ww2, pure blis the sound of those merlins, didnt realise thay made a smaller version called the hornet.
Only 2 years im afraid, the American engineering genius of Pratt & Whitney radial engines developed the 2500 hp double wasp and threw it in the F4U-1A Corsair, topping out at 417 mph, and by the end of the war new corsair variants with 4 bladed props were exceeding 500 mph. Love the Mosquito though, beautiful elegant and deadly craft, pity more didn't survive.
Beautifull airplane with a stunning and wonderfull sound. Shame that she crashed that sad day. Remember her at The Great Warbirds show at West Malling as a boy.
She is part of the reason im a regular at Flying legends where the pasion has rubbed off on to my two sons, look daddy a Spitfire....... Keep These warbirds forever flying !!!!!
Google Avspecs as well, they have an excellent site with written and photographic progress on the Mosquito and other airworthy WW2 aircraft. Try Ggling Glynn Powell for info on the new Build airworthy fusalage 's being built for other projects around the world. Chuck in NZ or New Zealand if they dont pop up at the top of your list selection.
Classic Fighters. Easter 2011 New Zealand. Should be the first showing of Jerry Yagen's Mosquito being assembled at Avspecs. Cant wait to see and hear one flying.
To quote the phrase,,,,'If it looks right,,it is right'....Britain not just built some of the finest aircraft in history,,,but the most beautiful. Should be known as 'Flying Artwork'.
Unfortunately there are no airworthy Mossies anywhere in the world at the moment, but a number being restored, at least one in New Zealand and some at the DeHavilland Air Museum at London Colney, where they are working to restore the original prototype.
I can ignore the sound of a Harley Davidson, and I can snob the sound of a Ferrari. But the "chest pounding" sound of a 12-cylinder, 27-litre Merlin Engine turning a large propeller, and 2 at that?? Its the kind of music that penetrates a man's soul, conveys masculinity, power grace and elegance. It's just such beautiful music beyond melody and lyrics!!
This particular Mosquito crashes at another airshow. It is on Youtube. Sucks because this is a beautiful aircraft and one of my all time favourites. I hope Rossmum is right in regards to another Mosquito restoration for 2010.
@guitarhamster102 If I'm not getting this mixed up I believe the pilot and engineer were killed. If I'm not mistaken it had to do with a carburator malfunction.
You could load it with 4,000 lb (1 800 kg) of bombs and it would still do 400mph out running German fighters and a Spitfire. What a plane and it pissed off Hermann Göring. Amazing and great video.
Sorry, all I know of it is from a brief glimpse at an aircraft mag. I distinctly recall them having a small article on a Mossie restoration project being due to complete in 2010, but I can't remember which it was... I have a sneaking suspicion it's either the Aussie or Kiwi one but I can't say for certain. All the same, I'll be glad to see any Mossie flying again.
I agree with you, they are such a beautiful all round design and I read something from Allan C Brown (father of stealth) of Lockheed Martin, that the Mosquito was one of the first stealthy airframes.
Beautiful airplane with an astonishing history. It is difficult to photograph moving airplanes well, and you have done an outstanding job with this vid. Thank you for making and posting it.
What a beautiful aeroplane!!! It's a shame that it went down 12 years ago and killed two brilliant pilots due to incorrect servicing of the carburettors, and it's more of a shame that they didn't restore one since then. If any Mossie is under restoration and someone can inform me, please don't hesitate to do so.
@kraalomega Well it's made of wood and britain made the Merlin engine, spitfire, some other stuff, and we made the Hellcat, Bearcat, Corsair, B-25, b-17, and so many more. Britain is tiny, they are cool, america is huge and we rule!
@PSNgregiskool , We may be tiny and yeah were definately cool but we built a bit more than a couple of aircraft, dont forget the Lancaster,with a considerably bigger bomb load than your B17! and it could fly in the dark! I know the Corsair was quicker than the mossie (eventually!) but the importaint thing is they were both quicker than the germans!
dont forget,all our aircraft were built in factorys that were constantly under attack (unlike yourselves) so I dont think we did too bad!
@beyergarret123 Well, we built some of the most famous aircraft of all time, we had to deal with the Pacific and the Atlantic. The Lancaster is not nearly as famous as the B-17, the B-17 was super fast, and could fend for itself. We made the P-51, you made the Spitfire. I saw a demonstration of how a BF-109 could tear up a Spit' and a Spit could... well... spit on the ME-109. I do know about the lancaster, a bit.
@PSNgregiskool with due respect, you dealt with th pacific and SOME of the Atlantic,as for how famous the lanc is against the B17,well if you lived in britain or even europe I can assure you its a different story! fame dont win wars, bombloads do! I seem to recall the B17s were ripped to shreds until the P51 (with a Merlin engine!) provided cover over europe.
I know for a fact that the Germans feared the British bombers at night way more than the americans .
@beyergarret123 just to add, the B17 was a fine aircraft crewed by some very brave young men and im sure its quite rightly famous in its homeland but for the rest of the world (including the british empire who supplied a lot of British bomber crew) you will find the lancaster and wellington were well respected and well remembered
@PSNgregiskool I know for a fact that the kind of goodhearted banter we've had was common between US and British aircrew at the time, its good to know we've carried that on and remembered their fight and passing at the same time.
@PSNgregiskool not sure if your aware, but even your beloved mustang, was built to British order, the american forces in actually didn't really want to know about it until much later in the war when it had proved its ground. North American at the time was a company being greatly underutilized at the time, while all the British factory's where working 120 percent, north american and the RAF came up with a magnificent aircraft. That the Americans finaly thought hey we could use that!
@PSNgregiskool oh and one last thing, the b17.....could barley lift a shoe box! i do appreciate american aircraft but they really weren't all that great!
Wonderful display flying. It showed this magnificent aircraft superbly. I would love to have had a flight in a Mozzie. I think this was the best British aircraft of WW2.
There is a brand new one built form scratch being fitted out at Ardmore airfiels in Auckland New Zealand. There are 2 more being built also.... I think that the first one is going to the States
sadly crashed shortly after this video was made. I'd love to hear if there is a Mosquito flying or plans to get one airworthy again. It's such a fantastic aircraft.
the mosquito was known for one of the best airplanes used in WWII. Is was faster than any fighter plane, so it did not need any defensive armaments. It was also made of wood, and the demand for wood was low at that time.
Beautiful listen to those engines
incat86 1 week ago
How can anyone click dislike , must be ex luftwaffe
MrGarrington120 2 weeks ago 5
Absolute poetry!
viewson800 4 weeks ago
Just taken a look at the progress on the Mosquito being restored at Ardmore, Auckland NZ.
Will be flying towards the end of the year, cant wait to see this fantastic plane.
akie64 1 month ago
Fantastic, help us get it flying again. People's Mosquito on facebook, @PeoplesMosquito on twitter.
Hoddoworld 1 month ago
Beautiful. Was this filmed at North Weald?
MreViewer 2 months ago
i love it, thankd u daddy
maidmoira 2 months ago
かっこいい！
kyafun 2 months ago
Light and fast and often unarmed, Herman Goering complained about them because they attacked a radio station he was transmitting a speech from in Berlin!
Plywood construction and TWO merlins....
baldandold 2 months ago
Mosquito and the Spitfire is the most beautiful planes ever.
jon2511 3 months ago
You know the Mozzie is based on a trout Churchill caught on holliday after covering the boer war in S.A.?
How´s that for poetic justice?
mriuskraft 3 months ago
Beauty from every angle
dardobartoli 3 months ago
i thought they were suppose to be quicker than a figther of the time, kind of looks the same speed
randomagain101 3 months ago
@randomagain101
they were faster
baldandold 2 months ago
aw damnit. my micro R/C sounds nothing like that!!! >:( lol
kyussfan6 4 months ago
Guess what a nickname I gave my car. ;-)
kickniko 4 months ago
What sounds better than a Merlin engine? TWO Merlin engines!!!!
KaptingK 4 months ago 3
Queen of the skies
skipy936 4 months ago
The "wooden wonder" was THE aircraft that I used to love seeing at UK airshows, the sound of those RR Merlin's was music to my ears, enhanced by the sound of the two engines drifting slightly in and out of phase with each other. Incredible aircraft and one of the most vital aircraft used by the RAF in WWII. There's a Mosquito museum and restoration centre in Malta on the site of a disused airfield.
TalkToTheBody 4 months ago
sex on two engines :P
afvnut75 5 months ago
@mredsghost nope that's exactly what i'm saying, why using a million dollars plane/ucav with 20000$ missile to shoot one guy with an 500$ AK47...even an old newport 17 can do the job !
bingofioul 5 months ago
impresionante!! arte en vuelo con un super mosquito!! Que es bien pesado, tiene mucha potencia de vuelo y es agresivo.
bustasalta 5 months ago
we really should use this kind of plane against taliban, no need to use a million dollars jet which can be shot down with a simple shotgun while this can straff anywhere and can resist multiple bullet impact (made in wood)
bingofioul 5 months ago
this thing is too precious and rare for this pilot to be throwing it around the sky like this....but good vid, awesome to see one in the air
Brian79camino 6 months ago
@Brian79camino You're right and they did drill it in and killed themselve too. Sad!
stikmunkey 5 months ago
@Brian79camino yeah too bad it crashed awhile ago =/ supposed to be a few in refurbishment so hopefully we will see a mosquito in the air again
teddy3412 5 months ago
Never seen one fly........thanks for posting this.
kitbots 7 months ago
Apparently Hitler was so furious with what the Mossie did to the Reich that he ordered a German version of it to be made to return the favour to the British. The Gerries couldn't do it..... :D
trekaddict 8 months ago
@trekaddict
Actually they did. The Ta-154 Moskito. It was actually faster and more manuverable than the De Havilland bird. The problem was it was near the end of the war and the glue factory used for the plywood was bombed out and they used substandard glue causing critical failures in some of the early birds, ending the life for the Ta-154 to a mere 50 units built, and less than that actually deployed.
EvilxMerlin 8 months ago
@trekaddict instead they made the jetplane. Messerchmidt Me-202...
Maring0418 7 months ago
Great video, good camera work, tis bloody difficult panning aircraft, trying to keep them in the frame.
IANGHARVEY 8 months ago
Without doubt the best looking, best sounding & best performing aircraft of WWII (at least it is in my eyes)
I've never seen a wooden structure with such grace as the Mossie.
Its just such a shame there are so few in the world that are still airworthy
whitewingsrich 8 months ago
They are selling pieces of the original prototype canvas patch with certifiacte on Ebay now to help toward the restorration of the very 1st Mosquito!!
mosquito1958 9 months ago
My maths teacher flew unarmed photo reconnaissance over Germany in a Mosquito...
SapperK9 10 months ago 2
does anyone know how many are still working?
ValiantVickers 11 months ago
@ValiantVickers The last I read none, but there are some new constructs going on.
Auggie56 10 months ago
Amazing aircraft, fast, high-flying, very long-range for the day, could carry a good bomb load, and was as agile as a fighter (some models were used as night fighters)
KJLesnick 11 months ago 2
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It was a known fault with this particular mosquito that the engine failed during WWII when attempting particular maneuvers, this is stated when you read the official report. When this particular maneuvers was attempted in 96 the engine cut out and the plane simply swan out of control. This was the last mosquito that was airborne worthy.
A mosquito in New Zealand is being restored at the moment and is due to be flown in its debut airshow in December this year. In Omaka
SkyRaiderExplosion 11 months ago
This so lovely to watch this aircraft flying, my hobby of Metal Detecting has found me a crashed Mosquito along with the aircraft it shot down in May 1944. I was able to talk to the Pilot of the Mosquito & he told me things about this Aircraft & wot it could do.
R2tag 11 months ago
needs awesome background music
iugey 11 months ago
@iugey It's got the best sound track possible, the sound of two Merlins =)
knuckey63 11 months ago
Probably the best plane of WW2
sooupdragon 11 months ago 17
@sooupdragon Best allied I'd say :)
STOPTHEEU 2 months ago
For a plane made of wood and two Spitfire engines it wasn't bad.
bazadata 1 year ago
My favourite WW2 type. Great looks, high performance, big payload and unmatched versatility from revolutionary wooden design that didn't tax already precious strategic metals but brought the furniture industry into the war effort!
Yamieguy64 1 year ago 3
Interestingly, the actual design of the Mossie is based on a fresh water pike. You can see this at the Mossie Museum just outside London.
wellardme 1 year ago
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Far more than half of the right extremists inside Germany are snitchers of German secret services.I guess that the NAZIs in the US with their help are being guided and supported by the German BND as well. The BND is actually the NAZI Gestapo under a new name.
These right wing troublemakers are very useful to divert from German human rights abuses in the past and today.My brother Markus Bott had been tortured during five and a half years and was murdered on 11.7.09
wwwtotalitaerde 1 year ago
The Germans admired the Mosquito immensely through out the war & really had no answer for it. Only their fastest machines had any chance of doing anything with it.
kolbpilot 1 year ago
heinkel sounds way better cause of the bmw engines ^^
doktorlindblood 1 year ago
@doktorlindblood Can`t beat RR Merlins! The sound of victory!
kjclarke56 1 year ago 2
@kjclarke56 aha, and why exactly? royce engines were built amongst the most spreaded pattern, cylinders in a row, just sounds like a 16cyl, propably like a fat 16 cyl and in someones opinion for sure the best sounding common jet engine ... but the heinkels were stuffed with juno and bmw engines which sound totally different and are completely unique cause of its 4 in a row star construction... thats the fat sounding difference
doktorlindblood 1 year ago
woodden bird with a long life
Alexander25C 1 year ago
the most beautiful plane ever built. what a craftmanship!
lela04 1 year ago
The Wooden Wonder. A lot of things to a lot of pilots, and a plane I truly love.
The high wood content made it hard for radar to detect and it was so fast it could be used not only as a fighter-bomber but as an interceptor. If it was me in the thick of things I'd want a Mosquito to take me in, because I know she'll be just as good about keeping me in and taking me out again.
RRVCrinale 1 year ago
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music to my ears
maidmoira 1 year ago
he took off without flaps down?
claudius1st 1 year ago
@claudius1st you only land with flaps out or if it is heavy loaded never compare to modern aircraft with more backswept wing
Kurttermansen42 1 year ago
@Kurttermansen42 , thank you for the explaining i work on modern "buses" so i've no experience at all about beautiful warbirds :)
claudius1st 1 year ago
@claudius1st Why would he need flaps at take off? The Spitfire only had landing flaps too, no take off or inbetween on that machine.
Xiolablu3 1 year ago
A plane even Hermann Göring envied.
ss90ss444 1 year ago
Are there full size or 7/8 scale plans available? I bet this would be a great homebuilt experimental aircraft...
fmagalhaes1521 1 year ago
I think they should start selling this one as a 1:1 scale model. Any pre-orders?
HenkvdT 1 year ago
Glad to know one of these beauties may fly again....
3dcandy 1 year ago
watching this video makes the hair on my neck stand up, such beauty and grace accented by the majestic sound of 2 merlin engines.
gradenko23 1 year ago
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GERMANOPHILE 1 year ago
mosquito was a brilliant plane it could be a fighter, a bomber, a recon plane and a nightfighter, and i think it could go faster than the german aircraft becuase the bombers had no defensive weapons and relied on its speed.
ajom010k 1 year ago
The beautiful roar of two merlins , makes your spine tingle,,
mosquito1958 1 year ago
and how far would the Yanks have got without the designs for the Jet engine from the UK?
abck9fran 1 year ago
yeah and another thing.numbnuts....you wanna learn yer history....cos I'm pretty sure you'll find the P51/Mustang was considered to be more or less useless for what it was designed for............until BRITISH engineers fitted it a Rolls Royce Merlin..yes ...a BRITISH engine.....and yes... the same engine as was in the Mosquito...if you're gonna mouth off at least learn your facts first.
RattlesnakeBob 1 year ago
@RattlesnakeBob Fuck him, speaks volumes about his life that he takes time out of his sorry life to try and pull us apart on videos about OUR engineering, ignorant clown needs a slap.
2BarKawi 1 year ago
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beyergarret123 1 year ago
"We may be tiny and yeah were definately cool but we built a bit more than a couple of aircraft, dont forget the Lancaster"
And who was it who broke the Enigma code and built the first electronic computer? Oh, and we also managed to reclaim an Enigma machine too (although you may believe different if you believe what Hollywood tells you)
abck9fran 1 year ago
They should break out the old Forms and Glue pots and put a few dozen together so they won't die off,making jobs for out of work craftsmen,fleets of these would not be a bad thing.
oldtilter 1 year ago
Beautiful!!! Weren't they fighter\bombers?
Nyelandismine 1 year ago
It takes 2 or so Brits to fly a WOOD plane with merlins, it takes a single american to fly a P-38 Lightning. Although, you brits sound awesome when you cuss.
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
My grandfather was a navigator for an RAF Mosquito during the war, I've got some photos he took of dive-bombing and strafing German ships in Norway
DRAC250 1 year ago
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I can ignore the sound of a Harley Davidson, and I can snob the sound of a Ferrari. But the "chest pounding" sound of a 12-cylinder, 27-litre Merlin Engine turning a large propeller, and 2 at that?? No way.. It's just such beautiful music beyond melody and lyrics!!
gradenko23 1 year ago
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gradenko23 1 year ago
I can ignore the sound of a Harley Davidson, and I can snob the sound of a Ferrari. But the "chest pounding" sound of a 12-cylinder, 27-litre Merlin Engine turning a large propeller, and 2 at that?? Its the kind of music that penetrates a man's soul, conveys masculinity, power grace and elegance. It's just such beautiful music beyond melody and lyrics!!
gradenko23 1 year ago
Wings of an angel.
EnglanderUK 1 year ago
i worked at chester in the late eighties / early nineties. watched this thing buzz the completion centre hangars on many occasion. just wish mobiles and their cameras were around then..
jackaldot70 1 year ago
A grand Lady she was. A wooden wonder of beauty,and speed. Thanks for posting
it.
Psyche777able 1 year ago
A very beautiful and graceful bird!
Jaliya48 1 year ago
beauiful, should be more of it.
MrStatic62 1 year ago
Best planes during WW2
wiifire8 1 year ago
Search "Mosquito aircraft restoration" on Facebook. All about the restoration of one of the two mosquitoes here in New Zealand.
mishtery999 1 year ago
makes the p38 seem like a cattle wagon, belive the mosy was the fastest aircraft for 3 years of ww2, pure blis the sound of those merlins, didnt realise thay made a smaller version called the hornet.
tc030564 1 year ago
@tc030564
Only 2 years im afraid, the American engineering genius of Pratt & Whitney radial engines developed the 2500 hp double wasp and threw it in the F4U-1A Corsair, topping out at 417 mph, and by the end of the war new corsair variants with 4 bladed props were exceeding 500 mph. Love the Mosquito though, beautiful elegant and deadly craft, pity more didn't survive.
mallard92 1 year ago
Beautifull a/c. We really need to see another flying soon!
Yamieguy64 1 year ago
Beautifull airplane with a stunning and wonderfull sound. Shame that she crashed that sad day. Remember her at The Great Warbirds show at West Malling as a boy.
She is part of the reason im a regular at Flying legends where the pasion has rubbed off on to my two sons, look daddy a Spitfire....... Keep These warbirds forever flying !!!!!
wamb17 1 year ago
Google Avspecs as well, they have an excellent site with written and photographic progress on the Mosquito and other airworthy WW2 aircraft. Try Ggling Glynn Powell for info on the new Build airworthy fusalage 's being built for other projects around the world. Chuck in NZ or New Zealand if they dont pop up at the top of your list selection.
warp65 1 year ago
Can't post a link but Google Classic Fighters Omaka for info. Booked my flight there already.
warp65 1 year ago
Classic Fighters. Easter 2011 New Zealand. Should be the first showing of Jerry Yagen's Mosquito being assembled at Avspecs. Cant wait to see and hear one flying.
warp65 1 year ago
RAAF museum at Point Cook is in the process of restoring one to airworthy-long way to go though!
ronasaurus74 1 year ago
To quote the phrase,,,,'If it looks right,,it is right'....Britain not just built some of the finest aircraft in history,,,but the most beautiful. Should be known as 'Flying Artwork'.
jimdrumvanman 2 years ago 8
didn't the germans refer to the mosquito
and their crews as 'flying bandits'? because of the high-speed,low level raids those brave men and their machines did during ww2
badmattam 2 years ago
Absolutely gorgeous. :-)
mcdonnell220 2 years ago
Those engine nacelles look so sleek, the shark fin tail is pretty cool as well.
GerbilEssences 2 years ago
Poetry in motion.
JehericoC 2 years ago 4
Lovely plane !! How many are still flying in the u.k ?
luvpump1 2 years ago
Unfortunately there are no airworthy Mossies anywhere in the world at the moment, but a number being restored, at least one in New Zealand and some at the DeHavilland Air Museum at London Colney, where they are working to restore the original prototype.
macp300 2 years ago 3
There is one being restored to fly in Vancouver, Canada, I'm not sure of its status. I thought Kermit Weeks had one in Florida that was airworthy.
23vin850 2 years ago
sounds *twice* as nice as a P-51... if you catch my drift
bjs030 2 years ago 46
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I can ignore the sound of a Harley Davidson, and I can snob the sound of a Ferrari. But the "chest pounding" sound of a 12-cylinder, 27-litre Merlin Engine turning a large propeller, and 2 at that?? Its the kind of music that penetrates a man's soul, conveys masculinity, power grace and elegance. It's just such beautiful music beyond melody and lyrics!!
gradenko23 1 year ago
@bjs030 So does the P-38, only it isn't made of wood.
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
@bjs030 - ya, and this thing was made out of wood!!!!
Charaht 1 year ago
Check out 'AVSPECS' they are based at Ardmore airfield in New Zealand. They have built a mossie from scratch. Due to fly 2010.
64TrueKiwi 2 years ago
This particular Mosquito crashes at another airshow. It is on Youtube. Sucks because this is a beautiful aircraft and one of my all time favourites. I hope Rossmum is right in regards to another Mosquito restoration for 2010.
MegaVesper04 2 years ago 9
@MegaVesper04 didn't both pilots die too?
guitarhamster102 6 months ago
@guitarhamster102 If I'm not getting this mixed up I believe the pilot and engineer were killed. If I'm not mistaken it had to do with a carburator malfunction.
MegaVesper04 6 months ago
the sound from about 2:37 to 2:50
oh my lord it's amazing!
plastiksp00n 2 years ago
made out of good canadain wood
riflelord2 2 years ago
nice!
nemesio1489 2 years ago
Great
longhornfan18 2 years ago
You could load it with 4,000 lb (1 800 kg) of bombs and it would still do 400mph out running German fighters and a Spitfire. What a plane and it pissed off Hermann Göring. Amazing and great video.
eddybaby167 2 years ago
1:07 to 1:14 AWESOME!!!!!!
arpnlaei 2 years ago
Worderfully stirring video of the most beautiful aircraft of the them all. Tragic loss in 1996. Will we ever see one again?
Lodrun1 2 years ago
Next year, apparently. :D
rossmum 2 years ago
Seriously?
My grandad used to fly these beautitful 'wooden wonders'. It would be amazing to see one fly again.
Add more details please?
Thanks
Josh
joshts01 2 years ago
Sorry, all I know of it is from a brief glimpse at an aircraft mag. I distinctly recall them having a small article on a Mossie restoration project being due to complete in 2010, but I can't remember which it was... I have a sneaking suspicion it's either the Aussie or Kiwi one but I can't say for certain. All the same, I'll be glad to see any Mossie flying again.
rossmum 2 years ago
I agree with you, they are such a beautiful all round design and I read something from Allan C Brown (father of stealth) of Lockheed Martin, that the Mosquito was one of the first stealthy airframes.
MegaBrits 2 years ago
Beautiful airplane with an astonishing history. It is difficult to photograph moving airplanes well, and you have done an outstanding job with this vid. Thank you for making and posting it.
Gairm 2 years ago
beautiful
wingcommanderdcb 3 years ago 4
OMG..What a fantastic display !!! 5 Stars..
gelbevierzehn 3 years ago 4
sorry, i meant to thump up you, accidentally clicked thumb down :( add 2 thumbs up from me :)
collegeboi2k7 3 years ago 2
LOL...no problem...
gelbevierzehn 3 years ago
Fantastic !!!!!
RaunchyRocker 3 years ago
What a beautiful aeroplane!!! It's a shame that it went down 12 years ago and killed two brilliant pilots due to incorrect servicing of the carburettors, and it's more of a shame that they didn't restore one since then. If any Mossie is under restoration and someone can inform me, please don't hesitate to do so.
Irvine5312x6ma 3 years ago
Think there's one being restored to flying condition in Oz - read it in Flypast magazine ages ago
dave41184 3 years ago
Thank you for informing me my friend, I appreciate your help!!!
Irvine5312x6ma 3 years ago
Amazing! Thanks for posting!
sirjeran 3 years ago
Could You Imagine An Entire Squadron Of These Taking Off, Brilliant
AshOxley17 3 years ago 3
The wooden wonder, love this plane
LopSidedBobb 3 years ago 2
How sweet it is. I have tingles up my spine! Thank you for this video.
shimon174b 3 years ago 2
same mossy crashed later that year
devil952 3 years ago
this fighter/bomber is excellent!!!
darcula08 3 years ago
it is one of the most beautiful things. Thank god for Britain !!!
kraalomega 3 years ago 18
@kraalomega Well it's made of wood and britain made the Merlin engine, spitfire, some other stuff, and we made the Hellcat, Bearcat, Corsair, B-25, b-17, and so many more. Britain is tiny, they are cool, america is huge and we rule!
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
@PSNgregiskool , We may be tiny and yeah were definately cool but we built a bit more than a couple of aircraft, dont forget the Lancaster,with a considerably bigger bomb load than your B17! and it could fly in the dark! I know the Corsair was quicker than the mossie (eventually!) but the importaint thing is they were both quicker than the germans!
dont forget,all our aircraft were built in factorys that were constantly under attack (unlike yourselves) so I dont think we did too bad!
beyergarret123 1 year ago
@beyergarret123 Well, we built some of the most famous aircraft of all time, we had to deal with the Pacific and the Atlantic. The Lancaster is not nearly as famous as the B-17, the B-17 was super fast, and could fend for itself. We made the P-51, you made the Spitfire. I saw a demonstration of how a BF-109 could tear up a Spit' and a Spit could... well... spit on the ME-109. I do know about the lancaster, a bit.
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
@PSNgregiskool with due respect, you dealt with th pacific and SOME of the Atlantic,as for how famous the lanc is against the B17,well if you lived in britain or even europe I can assure you its a different story! fame dont win wars, bombloads do! I seem to recall the B17s were ripped to shreds until the P51 (with a Merlin engine!) provided cover over europe.
I know for a fact that the Germans feared the British bombers at night way more than the americans .
beyergarret123 1 year ago
@beyergarret123 just to add, the B17 was a fine aircraft crewed by some very brave young men and im sure its quite rightly famous in its homeland but for the rest of the world (including the british empire who supplied a lot of British bomber crew) you will find the lancaster and wellington were well respected and well remembered
beyergarret123 1 year ago
@beyer garratt 123 im in the very privileged position to visit many of the ww11 US/British bomber bases in britain
its an amazing feeling to walk the runways,barracks,mess rooms and even ablutions that these brave guys lived in.
in a lot of cases this was the last semblances of freedom these guys knew,and what they were fighting for.
its not about who was more "famous" or "impressive" its all about how fuckin' brave these guys were! be they british or american.
lets leave it there!
beyergarret123 1 year ago 3
@beyergarret123 Amen brother, well said.
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
@PSNgregiskool thanks Bud, much appreciated! all the best mate!
beyergarret123 1 year ago
@PSNgregiskool I know for a fact that the kind of goodhearted banter we've had was common between US and British aircrew at the time, its good to know we've carried that on and remembered their fight and passing at the same time.
god rest there souls
beyergarret123 1 year ago
@PSNgregiskool not sure if your aware, but even your beloved mustang, was built to British order, the american forces in actually didn't really want to know about it until much later in the war when it had proved its ground. North American at the time was a company being greatly underutilized at the time, while all the British factory's where working 120 percent, north american and the RAF came up with a magnificent aircraft. That the Americans finaly thought hey we could use that!
ausadvanceelectrical 1 year ago
@ausadvanceelectrical Ahh my prejudiced personality just died after watching top gear and Jame's Toy Stories.
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
@PSNgregiskool oh and one last thing, the b17.....could barley lift a shoe box! i do appreciate american aircraft but they really weren't all that great!
ausadvanceelectrical 1 year ago
@kraalomega no! the de Havilland Hornet is the little brother of this bird with the same engines. i want one of those instead.
mww88 1 year ago
@kraalomega
Its like a double orgasm with wings!!
5spdstang 1 year ago 16
Wonderful display flying. It showed this magnificent aircraft superbly. I would love to have had a flight in a Mozzie. I think this was the best British aircraft of WW2.
sundaywino 3 years ago 2
brilliant film thanks for that , the sound of the merlins just great , what an engine i think we english have a lot to thank the merlin engine for
hatchmk3 3 years ago 3
I would say the same for french ... with the sabre engine typhoon & Tempest)
bouilll 3 years ago
Forget the Spitfire and Hurricanes, Mosquito and Lancasters were by far the prettiest planes made.
EMATURBO 4 years ago
Forget the Spitfire and Hurricanes, Mosquito and Lancasters were by far the prettiest planes made.
EMATURBO 4 years ago
There is a brand new one built form scratch being fitted out at Ardmore airfiels in Auckland New Zealand. There are 2 more being built also.... I think that the first one is going to the States
djw0076 4 years ago
Very nice footage. I hope they get one flying again soon. It has to be my favourite type of the war, so versitile as well as high performance.
Yamieguy64 4 years ago
wow it looks awesome doesnt it, its like .. well it is a spitfire nose on each wing , looks cool,,,
djwilko7 4 years ago
Simply wonderful - thanks for that!
andynick01 4 years ago
that wood gives me wood
6661313420 4 years ago
@6661313420 Gald it's not just me.
chazsmateII 1 year ago
Would of been nice to see if was still with Avro Vulcan XH558
Maltray 4 years ago
was it the mozzie or p-38 that the germans would be creditted with 2 kills for shooting down?
savvyD1984 4 years ago
the mosquito
6661313420 4 years ago
Mossie. Per Goerings orders as he hated the machine that much.o_0
SpotterOz 4 years ago
RIGHTLY SO.
terryjohn 4 years ago
Just superb. What a great shame there are no more flying.
timjim100 4 years ago
so the one in this video isnt flying????
mikedeluco 4 years ago
I was under the impression that this Mosquito
sadly crashed shortly after this video was made. I'd love to hear if there is a Mosquito flying or plans to get one airworthy again. It's such a fantastic aircraft.
timjim100 4 years ago
there is absolutely nothing better than a prop aircraft. They just sound amazing.
kawasakipolaris 4 years ago
the mosquito was known for one of the best airplanes used in WWII. Is was faster than any fighter plane, so it did not need any defensive armaments. It was also made of wood, and the demand for wood was low at that time.
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