De Havilland Mosquito to fly again.

[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.

[NZtyphoon]

Originally Posted by 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.

ENVY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEyDlgJYIF8

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by NZtyphoon

ENVY

Thx for the vid!

Sink rate seems high or was it a camera effect ?

[RickRuski]

This project spread over about 8 years, but what a beautiful job has been done. The fusealage builder (Glyn Powell) has another in production we were told for himself along with the wings. The main problem Jerry Yegar has in getting it back home is the wings, they won't fit in a standard container (being a one piece wing). There was a suggestion a the display that he buys some land here and shifts his whole collection to NZ (as if that's going to happen). We had Kermit Weeks here in NZ last year at the Omaka Classic Fighters air show in Blenheim to pick up his new WW1 Albatross that was built here. He flew this at the air show at Omaka Easter 2011 (mainly a WW1 air show with a lot of replica WW1 aircraft. Approx 12 in the air dogfighting together at the same time). The fuselage that Glyn built earlier that went to the U.S.A, the wings were built in Canada probably because of the transport situation. If Jerry decides to have the plane flown home some lucky people are in for a treat.

For those that couldn't be here, here's a clip from the Mossie display (Pilot, Keith Skilling): -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQI6je-E5J0

[NZtyphoon]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

Thx for the vid!

Sink rate seems high or was it a camera effect ?

Keith Skilling is one of the best pilots in the business and he wouldn't let the sink rate develop beyond the book limits; cf this wartime footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7pNBSRkEiQ