A different kind of Mosquito
Jul 23, 2017 01:39:28 #
Paul Allen's "Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum" in Everett, WA, held their annual "Skyfair" event today, and the main attraction was the first official public flight of their newly restored de Havilland Mosquito. The Mosquito was a jack-of-all-trades for the RAF during WWII, serving from 1942 through the end of the war as a light bomber, night fighter, photo-reconnaissance and maritime attack plane... not bad for an aircraft made almost entirely of wood! Most of the restoration and testing was done in New Zealand, and the plane was shipped to the museum in Everett for re-assembly and painting. It's painted in the RAF "night intruder" scheme of gray and olive topside, and flat black undersurfaces. The Mosquito is now a permanent part of FHCAM's collection, and is scheduled to fly again at their "European Theater Day" on August 26th.
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Great pictures, great aircraft, but then I am bias.
My father worked on the design team at de Havilland.
Well taken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_de_Havilland_Mosquitos
My father worked on the design team at de Havilland.
Well taken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_de_Havilland_Mosquitos
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Thanks, everyone! I was pretty excited to see it, since I had never before seen one fly. A very cool experience!
Jul 24, 2017 05:21:23 #
My father was on reserved occupation (due to his skills in bending wood) and did a lot of aircraft construction in High Wycombe. Many mosquitos (or bits of) left the line under his watchful eye.
But even though he was on reserved occupation he'd never talk about 'the war', mainly (I believe) due to the no. of friends he lost in it.
But even though he was on reserved occupation he'd never talk about 'the war', mainly (I believe) due to the no. of friends he lost in it.
Jul 24, 2017 05:49:43 #
SQUIRL033 wrote:
Paul Allen's "Flying Heritage and Combat Armo... (show quote)
Rocky, excellent. Thank you again for posting all of these fantastic photos.
Greg
Jul 24, 2017 05:51:17 #
John N wrote:
My father was on reserved occupation (due to his skills in bending wood) and did a lot of aircraft construction in High Wycombe. Many mosquitos (or bits of) left the line under his watchful eye.
But even though he was on reserved occupation he'd never talk about 'the war', mainly (I believe) due to the no. of friends he lost in it.
But even though he was on reserved occupation he'd never talk about 'the war', mainly (I believe) due to the no. of friends he lost in it.
I digress - but I am thinking that perhaps your father learned his skills in the chair-making industry - for which I believe High Wycombe was famous.
I lived in West Wycombe (opposite the Friend at Hand Pub) in the sixties. I then had a Pentax S1a and a Minolta Hi-matic7. (I think that Minolta model went to the moon).
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