Kermit Weeks' Mossie - Part 2 - The de Havilland Mosquito

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The de Havilland Mosquito was one of the all time classic aircraft of WWII. Made almost entirely of wood, the Mosquito thus avoided a dependence upon strategic metals, and made use of the skills of Britain's hugh woodworking industry.
Endowed with exceptional high performance by its two Rolls Royce Merlins and clean aerodynamics, it was conceived both as an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft and bomber with a speed that would enable it to escape interception. First flow on November 25, 1940, it first entered operational service in the reconnaissance role as the Mosquito PR Mark 1 with a daylight sortie over France on September 20, 1941.
Production of all Mosquitos totaled 7,781, including 1,117 built in Canada and 228 in Australia.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• RAF
• RCAF
• World War II
• bomber command
• mosquito

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The Mosquito featured in this video is now on static display at the EAA Airventure Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The video was shot in 1988 at the Hamilton, Ontario Airshow. At present I am aware of two being restored to flying condition, one in Auckland, New Zealand and one in Victoria, BC, Canada by Victoria Air Maintenance Ltd.

[aviationvideosdvd]

Kermit Weeks' Mosquito is at the EAA Airventure Museum in Oshkosh, WI

[Indogyearsimdead]

SHUT UP...

[paullubliner]

Has anyone who runs these shows, ever noticed that over 90% of the people who attend them know more about these aircraft than the announcers AND that WE would much prefer listening to the engines than some cheap P.A. System's Gibberish? Anyone agree?

[nzaircraftfan]

Listen to those merlin engines purring

[edj66]

@FiveCentsPlease Oh fantastic news. Can we have one over in England please? :P

[FiveCentsPlease]

@58Vulcan

Mosquito Aircraft Restoration, Auckland, New Zealand. They are building two new Mossies from scratch and have revived the knowledge and techniques to build these wooden airframes.

[kgs42]

E-type Jaguar of the skies?

[SuperDougiedoo]

There is a company started up in New Zealand thats has the equipment to construct new Airframes and Wing Sections. I can't think of the name off the top of my head but im sure a quick search will locate it. I think the RAF's BBMF need one to go with their Hurricane's,Spitfire's, Lancaster and C47.

[TFB777]

Fast and deadly...sad that so many just rotted away after the war.

[58Vulcan]

Now if we built a couple of new airframes we could keep them flying for years

[carmium]

Let's listen to those wonderful Merlin engines: "THE MOSQUITO...YAP YAP YAP YAP FAMOUS... YAP YAP YAP PLYWOOD... YAP YAP YAP YAP WORLD WAR 2... YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP..." Don't you just love air shows? 8-\