Revised De Havilland Mosquito flight models are coming to Warbirds soon......

Mosquito Mk. BIV series II

Mosquito Mk. NFII

Mosquito Mk. FBVI series II

Mosquito Mk. NF30

Mosquito Mk. BXVI

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Bol,

That's a lot of Mossies! I guess you're doing skins for them too. I know how much you like that plane. You've done a great job with skins for earlier models. When can we see your handiwork for these?

Art

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Actually I already did the skins about 3 years ago... these are for the BXVI (blue were the technically the PRXVI markings but they look cool)

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Really nice job Bollok, sir!
Having test flown one of the Beta stage Mosquitoes I must say we will finally have this airplane represented way closer to it's real life performance. A twin engine fighter/bomber plane that shouldn't enter 1v1 turnfights, but is sleek, very fast, agile for it's size and retains it's energy well. Not the mockery hog of a Mosquito that we currently have in the arenas .


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A good friend of mine did the test flying on the first Mossie to be rebuilt in, well, a very long time! A guy in New Zealand decided he could build a mosquito as it was a wood build and so he set about making the jigs etc to actually do it. Took him about 10-15 years, but, we had the worlds first flying Mossie which I think ended up in Kermit Weeks collection afterwards. I saw it fly several times in New Zealand over about 6 months and actually got to sit in it during some engine runs and taxi tests....hard to describe the power and noise emanating from those 2 Merlins! He did say that it was a beautiful handling airplane, well harmonised and very fast and powerful. We had some discussion on the "dead zone" on take off, where if you lose an engine on rotation, you don't have enough power to climb away and you can't apply full power to do so as you don't have enough rudder authority to overcome the yaw...basically the good engine is flying you to the crash site! They have gone and built a second model which I believe ended up in Canada and there is a 3rd on the "production line" now and, on the plans, a Hornet, sort of a metal version of the Mossie.

Nice story... not Keith Schilling is it?

Yes Glynn Powell spent about 20 years re-constructing the moulds needed to build a mossie for his own project.

the FB6 for Jerry Yagen is now at the MAM in Virginia Beach
the TR3 for Paul Allen is at his Flying Heritage Museum at Paine Field near Seattle.
Gynns own rebuild project he is trying to sell as a package to somebody I beleive.

The Peoples Mosquito in the UK hope raise the funds in order to be the 4th airframe to be rebuilt.
Work has already been started by Glynn on the wing ribs etc.

Last year over 23,000 original dehavilland mossie drawings were found in an old filing cabinet and donated to the peoples mosquito.
this covers all versions of the mossie, even ones that were never built..

The Mossie has a high VMc of about 170 mph (min speed for 1 engine operation) so the aim on take off is to get the gear up quick and accelerate to over 170 mph ias as quick as possible. !

An engine failure below that speed basically means the good engine is flying you to the crash site as you say..

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Not Keith, although I believe he did fly it a number of times. My friend is Dave Phillips, just recently retired Cathay Pacific Captain, he's don't most of the test flying....very very interesting stories!

Here's a link to a an ok doc on the Mossie, including discussions with several (90+ year old) pilots and a flight in the new one owned by Yagen (shipped from NZ) toward end of part 2. Terrible crash scene from about 25 years ago there too. Aircraft tried to execute a roll while climbing, stalled, slipped sideways and failed to recover. Evidently an unforgiving bird to master in real life...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8I2mgzc1ww

Knuckr, you certainly have interesting friends!

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New flight models due for release this week.
Mosquito Mk. BIV series II
Mosquito Mk. NFII

Expected to be ready for release at end of November 2017.
Mosquito Mk. NF30
Mosquito Mk. FBVI series II
Mosquito Mk. BXVI

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