De Havilland Mosquito to fly again.

[Swoose]

Yes, it's terrific that a Mossie is able to take to the skies again. I'm fortunate that the Virginia Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia USA will be the Mossie's home here. The Museum has a very impressive flock of warbirds and puts on some great airshows.

http://www.vam.smv.org

[Stiboo]

Wow - at long last..






great stuff...

[Flanker35M]

S!

Mosquito is one of the most legendary planes. Wooden Wonder, Termite's Dream and whatnot was it called But was very fast and versatile packing a real punch. Didn't they find the original "forms" on a dump which were used to make the fuselage? They were rescued and put for display somewhere.

[hc_wolf]

flanker... I agree but why u posting in here. Read the next thread Patch in 1 hour

[hiro]

i wish they could build new ones, like the FW 190, but it'd be difficult, even though most of its is wood . . .

thanks for the update on the Mossie


"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked."

— Hermann Göring


I also read the Germans came up with the idea of a twin engine bomber that was so fast it could evade fighters and have none or minimal defensive weaponry. But the British were the only ones to actualize that idea.

[RickRuski]

There is in NZ a very clever man (Glyn Powell) who has made the fuselage formers from original plans for the main chassis for the Mossie. He has produced a number of full chassis as I believe and at least one full chassis has already gone to America for a rebuild for a static model (the wing sections I think were done in Canada).

Reading a further article it appears that Glyn along with help from others has not only done the chassis for this restoration but also the wings. Good on you Glyn Powell.

Have a look at this site, this is a great magazine.

http://www.classicwings.com/

[bw_wolverine]

Not sure if that's the only airworthy mosquito. I think we have one in Canada.... I could be wrong, though I swore I heard a radio piece just a few weeks ago about one flying.

I also love the Mosquito. I used to make mossies out of lego when I was a boy.

[Helrza]

Been following this project on this facebook page Great set of pics and vids from the entire build process start to finish

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Cla...y/265224834712

[RickRuski]

Just got back from the air show, you lucky sons of guns in the U.S.A. Don't know how Jerry Yegar is going to get it back to the States but it certainly won't fit in his suit case. It has less than 3 hours flying time since rebuild and the pilot (Keith Skilling says this has been the best build he has flown, not one hitch. Everything went without any problem). Those Merlins sound soo sweet and the final flyby with a Spitfire, P51 and P40N was brilliant. Having the planes flying at about 200 feet hight and almost 150 feet from the spectator line was a buzz. Took us 2 hours driving from my house to the airfield gates with a trip that would normally take us half an hour. The crowd was huge for our part of the world, even had some Australian commentators here saying nowhere else in the world would the spectators get this close to the action. The word is this is already gone international so probably on You Tube already.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Kupsised

Lucky gits

I've heard rumours of this coming over to the UK for Flying Legends next year. Even if it doesn't happen, I really hope it comes to the UK at some point. It'd be a shame to not be able to see it.

Very unlikely unfortunately. The fuselage is sitting on the wing, which is one big long spar, and disassembling it for travel would be a true PITA, so doing it more than once is very unlikely. Nobody in their sane mind would think to fly that across the world, so no, I think your "rumour" is more like most of us "hope" making a lot of noise

Again, I'd love to be proven wrong, but it's a very difficult thing to do, especially on such a unique wooden construction.

Oh well, there's still plenty of people with more brass than sense in Europe, give it some time..