de Havilland Mosquito - rare archive & newsreel footage - with killing joke ok ??

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music "music" by killing joke - so be prepared to lower volume ...
conceived as an unarmed fast bomber, uses of the Mosquito included: low to medium altitude daytime tactical bomber, high altitude night bomber, pathfinder, day or night fighter, fighter-bomber, intruder, maritime strike and photo reconnaissance aircraft.
The bulk of the Mosquito was made of custom plywood. The fuselage was a frameless monocoque shell made of ⅜ in (9.5 mm) sheets of Ecuadorean balsawood sandwiched between sheets of Canadian birch, but in areas needing extra strength—such as along cut-outs—stronger woods replaced the balsa filler. The plys were formed to shape by band clamps over large concrete moulds, each holding one half of the fuselage, split vertically. While the casein-based glue in the plywood dried, carpenters cut a sawtooth joint into their edges while other workers installed the controls and cabling on the inside wall. When the glue was completely dried, the two halves were glued and screwed together. A covering of doped Madapolam (woven cotton) fabric completed the unit.

The wings were similar but used different materials and techniques. The main wing was built as a single unit. To form the basic shape, two birch plywood box spars were connected by plywood ribs, and stringers spanned the ribs. The skinning was also birch plywood, one layer thick on the bottom and doubled up on the top; between the two top layers was another layer of fir stringers. Building up the structure used an enormous number of brass screws, 30,000 per wing. The wing was completed with wooden flaps and aluminium ailerons.
When both parts were complete the fuselage was lowered onto the wing, and once again glued and screwed together. The remainder consisted of wooden horizontal and vertical tail surfaces, with aluminium control surfaces. Engine mounts of welded steel tube were added, along with simple landing gear oleos filled with rubber blocks. Wood was used to carry only in-plane loads, with metal fittings used for all triaxially loaded components such as landing gear, engine mounts, control surface mounting brackets, and the wing-to-fuselage junction. The total weight of metal castings and forgings used in the aircraft was only 280 lb (130 kg)

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[spineyExtra]

keep it coming -

[Hurridale]

Excellent footage when viewed with sound muted. Do you know where this footage can be found with the original narration/soundtrack?

[spineyExtra]

@Hurridale NO

[lomond43]

As soon as this started to play I immediately stopped it because of the inane music .

Thanks but no thanks

[spineyExtra]

@lomond43 @lomond43 LEARN TO READ THEN!

[swp12]

Wonderful piece of film and with so much in it to find interest, but what on earth posessed you to dub over this awful music? It is so utterly inappropriate that it amazes me how you could be so crass. Ruined a great archive item imo.

[spineyExtra]

@swp12 WE LIKE DIFFERENT THINGS BASICALLY I HAVE TASTE U DONT

[oldtilter]

The Video is good ...but the music doesn't match

[arriviste2020]

Whether one likes / dislikes this aircraft, there is one fact that is unchallenged. It was an absolutely brilliant concept by the De Havilland people. Looking at the video it is unbelievable the performance of the aircraft from such humble manufacturing beginings. Is it any wonder that the aircraft built after the Mosquito, was the fastest wooden aircraft ever? Simply amazing. Excellent video. Note that there were no workers standing around doing nothing productive!!!!

[giannivee1]

I think there are several very cool a/c of WWII, the Me 262 and Me 109, the B 17 and B 24, but by far the coolest, has got to be the Mosquito, made of wood, extremely fast, almost invisible on radar, no fighter could catch it, and still could travel extremely ong distances with a bomb load and strafe its way back. I am in total awe how the Brits got this almost by mistake. I think probably one of the best three a/c of WWII. I think they should have built it and not the Lancaster. Really!!!

[MrTravbad]

@Hurridale Think its in here

[johnnyboy1mc]

My Grand father [ Doug Hunter ] was the Engineering Director for DH in Canada he came to Canada in 1939 to build the Mosquito I have hundreds of photo on the build plus all of the test's that were done Thank you ever so much for uploading this video

[CrabTastingMan]

Awesome. I found yet another Killing Joke tune I like. And thanks for the detailed description of the Mosquito. I had no idea a military plane in an attacking role could be built with wood.

[AussieAviator]

Inane crap ! That's the only way I can describe this travesty.  What were you smoking when you attempted to mix this amazing archival footage with an alloy of screeching sounds ! It's not even music !!

Disgraceful.