Danny Fenton Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 All the interest in the Mosquito at the moment meant I was watching some footage. Found this to be an excellent piece on the Mosquito. Cheers Danny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Fenton Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 And of course today is the 75th anniversary of the Mosquitos first flight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Jones Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Enjoyable watch, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Fenton Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 One of the best i have seen, with some good footage that was new to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Carpenter Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Hi. I was given the privilege of sitting in the prototype Mossie EO234 at Salisbury Hall some 30 years ago ! I was shown round the museum by Alan Copas,who as a young man, helped build the prototype in 1940. He was impressed by my knowledge of the aircraft and against the rules,let me shin up the ladder and into the cockpit. Wonderful smells and beyond my widest dreams at the time ! He showed me the break in the rear fuselage which people thought was the original break in Boscombe testing but which was in fact another fracture on the replacement fuselage from W4051. 25 years later and I was able to see the original mods to the rear of the cowlings where they were extended to improve the airflow over the tailplane. They hadn't been since since the 50's ! And the little leather pouches the underrcart locking pins were put in before flight . Ah !De Havilland ! Colin Edited By Colin Carpenter on 25/11/2015 21:52:15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daithi O Buitigh Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 I did notice the usual inaccuracies creep in. The Lanc and Halifax weren't projected in the '30s, the Mossie wasn't ordered after the first prototype was flown (in fact 50 were ordered from the drawing board under Air Ministry Spec B1.40) And I'll say nothing about the commentary talking about Lancs with a flight of Whitleys showing on the screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Fenton Posted November 26, 2015 Author Share Posted November 26, 2015 Yes there were a few innacuracies, the Hornet landing on a carrier deck, being described as a Mossie was another. But all that aside it was still well worth a watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daithi O Buitigh Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 They also missed a couple of points, Danny - the armament wasn't just '4 .303 Brownings' but it also had 4 20 mm Hispanos under the cockpit floor. Additionally BOAC had a high speed 'courier' for diplomatic mail to Lisbon (returning with the bomb bay full of ball bearings) and also carried passengers now and again. Sir Malcolm Sargent was one and he was locked in the bomb bay with oxygen, lighting and a supply of reading material (which is probably where the OSS got the idea) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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