I was at the Central Coast Air Show a couple of weekends ago where two, yes two, Mosquitos flew in formation for the first time in over 30 years! It was a beautiful sight, with a spectacular sound!
That's really cool. I think I was looking at one of those Mosquitos two weeks earlier at the Planes Of Fame Museum in Chino. This one here in Everett used to fly but it hasn't since 2018 or 2019.
My father was in the RAF during WW2 and was an airframe fitter . He said that he saw a Mosquito come into land that had lost a propeller due to mechanical failure. The propellor had cut off a portion of the nose of the Mosquito and he could see the pilots feet operating the. Controls as it came into land on one engine. He said it was repaired and put back into service. I remember as a child, my father had a pot of the powered wood glue that they used to mix with water to do repairs on the airframe with . There are now approximately 3-4 Mosquitos that are airworthy in the world today.
Why are there shoot down icons on the Mosquito when it was a trainer? They aren't even in the right place so far as I'm aware, and apparently after shooting down three Germans they flew over to the pacific to shoot down a couple Japanese aircraft.
if you pause on the plaque underneath the aircraft at the start of the video and read it, all will be explained. PS - never should have left England :(
I was at the Central Coast Air Show a couple of weekends ago where two, yes two, Mosquitos flew in formation for the first time in over 30 years! It was a beautiful sight, with a spectacular sound!
That's really cool. I think I was looking at one of those Mosquitos two weeks earlier at the Planes Of Fame Museum in Chino. This one here in Everett used to fly but it hasn't since 2018 or 2019.
@@HomemadeAviationMovies Yes, that is one of them. I believe they are both currently there.
My father was in the RAF during WW2 and was an airframe fitter .
He said that he saw a Mosquito come into land that had lost a propeller due to mechanical failure. The propellor had cut off a portion of the nose of the Mosquito and he could see the pilots feet operating the. Controls as it came into land on one engine.
He said it was repaired and put back into service.
I remember as a child, my father had a pot of the powered wood glue that they used to mix with water to do repairs on the airframe with .
There are now approximately 3-4 Mosquitos that are airworthy in the world today.
There were over 168,000 engines built, of which just over 56,000 were built in the USA.
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Why are there shoot down icons on the Mosquito when it was a trainer? They aren't even in the right place so far as I'm aware, and apparently after shooting down three Germans they flew over to the pacific to shoot down a couple Japanese aircraft.
if you pause on the plaque underneath the aircraft at the start of the video and read it, all will be explained. PS - never should have left England :(