D.H. 98 Mosquito TV959 First Flight in U.S.A. - Warbirds
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- ** Sorry about how shaky it is... I was standing on top of a ladder and I haven't practice panning in a long time.**
This beauty belongs to Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum in Everett, Washington.
The Mosquito is unique among World War II fighters because it is made primarily of wood, not metal.
The Royal Air Forces’ (RAF) “fast bomber” first flew in November of 1940. In order to keep weight down, the speedy plane was constructed primarily of spruce, birch plywood, and balsa wood. This building method had the added bonus of preserving war-critical duralumin and steel for other military aircraft projects. The Mosquito was powered by a pair of Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12 engines, similar to those seen in the RAF’s Spitfire and Hurricane.
The “Wooden Wonder” Mosquito became one of the fastest, far-flying, and most versatile aircraft of World War II. Examples operated as bombers, fighters, fighter-bombers, night fighters, reconnaissance planes, and trainers. The last of the over 7,700 examples built flew well into the jet age, retiring in the early 1960s.
History of the Artifact
The FHCAM’s Mosquito was built in Leavesden, England, as a training aircraft in 1945. The plane was among the last of the type to be retired from RAF service in 1963. Turned over to the Imperial War Museum (IWM), the Mosquito appeared in the 1964 film 633 Squadron.
After filming, the plane was displayed in an IWM facility until 1988. The plane was traded to the FHCAM in 2003 and sent to Avspecs Ltd. In New Zealand for restoration to flight status. It returned to the skies in late 2016. While the plane retains some aspects of a trainer, additions were made to give the Mosquito the appearance of a wartime FB.Mk.VI fighter-bomber.
Any lovingly restored piece of heritage machinery, be it car, or plane, or whatever, is a source of strange joy for me.
Beautiful 😍
$12/13 000,000, NZ could build you one all for your self
Made in New Zealand. America's Cup yachts are not the only things we are good at building.
Fabulous!!! That's brought tears to a few eyes here in the UK. Thank you for posting.
Not only the most beautiful aircraft ever made but most likly the most succesful combat aircraft made also. Its exploits are legendary. A true masterpiece this plan is.
The 'Mossie' was a truly unique aircraft and exactly what was needed in the UK in WWII in late 1940. Exploiting carpenters' and cabinet makers' underused skills and the available natural resources in wartime Britain was a touch of genius by De Havilland. He also understood that having a very fast and agile aircraft negated the need for gun turrets and crews of 6 and 7 hence just a Pilot and Navigator and made the whole aircraft easier and therefore faster to produce. That it became the fastest (pre-jet) aircraft in WWII, was a highly accurate medium bomber, an exceptional photo-reconnaissance platform, a Pathfinder and could deliver the same 4,000Ib bombload to Berlin as a B-17 but be back in UK before the B-17s got to Berlin sums up what the Mosquito delivered to the Allied Air Forces in WWII.
Well done the Kiwis for restoring this original aircraft to the air and well done FHCAM for providing the funding to do it.
1chish---you just about covered it all--but lets mention anti-submarine work, precision low-level strikes at Nazi headquarters etc AND some were fitted with a 6 pounder gun that could knock out a frigate.
Philip - well yes indeed as you say. For once we can say it was a Jack of all Trades and Master of them All...
There is a sadly true story of a Squadron of Mossies tasked to attack a Gestapo building in the Netherlands. So they went in low. At speed. Sadly they were misinformed of the height of the lamposts in that town. One was hit, the aircraft crashed into a building at a street junction and tragically it was a school. Many children were killed and terribly injured. But the local Dutch people did not blame the RAF for ONE minute as they knew how brave those guys were flying that low. Unlike today when the first reaction is 'who can I blame and get my com-pen-say-shun'
Just a little correction. The Gestapo headquarter building was in the middle of Copenhagen, Denmark. The school that got hit by the Mossie was "The French School" in Copenhagen. The rest of the storie is correct.
Alex - Ah good thanks for the correction. Thats the price of not checking a story when someone relays it to you...
Andrew - Shut the fuck up with the shouting and ranting crap.
I said:
"There is a sadly true story of a Squadron of Mossies tasked......."
A fucking 'story' where I got the location wrong. Wow. Lock me the fuck up .....
That was one of the most beautiful things I've seen, and heard, in a long time. The sound of a Merlin often gets me misty eyed but to see a Mosquito flying again was breath taking. Its always been my favourite WW2 Aircraft. Thank you so much for posting that, and well done to the team for keeping the "mossie" alive. Long may she fly!
She is absolutely beautiful and a credit to Avspecs Ltd. I was lucky enough to witness her maiden flight at Ardmore aerodrome before her dismantlement and shipping to the USA.
Beautiful machine!
What sounds better than a Rolls Royce Merlin? Ans: TWO Rolls Royce Merlins! What a beauty.
Very nice to see another "Mossie" in the air in the U.S. Also looking forward to the day Kermit Weeks gets his in the air also. I just hope I live long enough as he has so many irons in the fire. LOL. I like the night ops paint scheme. Rare on a Mosquito. Very attractive. Would be really cool to see it in formation with a Lancaster or two. Ah, we can dream. Very good footage considering a Corsair was in the way. Boy, that's a problem we all wish we had. Anyway, great footage, thank you for posting and God Bless from Florida.
Thanks Brother, everytime I hear 1 of them old Engines crank up, I remember, Ole Strat, sceamin in my ear... Tailwinds...
I was gifted to have such teachers, ...Keep the Faith Alive,
I've been waiting for this for a while. Epic!
No one I'd rather have at the controls of my newly-restored Mosquito. Now all I need is a newly-restored Mosquito!
In a world where, 'If something looks right, then it probably is right', the Mosquito stands out as a beautiful aeroplane
Two British manufacturers had that philosophy, Jaguar Cars, and De Havilland Aircraft Company
MAGNIFICENT! Great photog, as always J. Fortenbacher! I missed this by one day[..stopped by Thurs. to see it go up & was greeted bother Zero instead--no harm, no foul..]
Looking forward to the official July festival flight.
Beatifull plane
So cool!
Totally cool! TFS
Thanks! It looks like I had about 10 cups of coffee... hopefully I got the jitters out of my system and can actually pan decently today. :-)
AV specs nz do a great job
A beautiful aeroplane
maria cornwallis my thoughts exactly!
Always preferred this, even to the Spit or Beaufighter or P-51 or the Corsair or the FW190 or the Hayate or ... Guess I'm a geek, but the Mosquito is my favorite.
YOU HAVE MARVELOUS TASTE.
Nice! Always great to see the old birds.
Nothing sounds like a Mossie! Beautiful aeroplane!! :O)
can you bring this to fairford uk. we lost british mossie in 1996.
It's interesting that Goering became obsessed with dealing with a seemingly invincible Mosquito over Germany, the Luftwaffe night fighter units apparently had no aircraft, with perhaps the Ju88S and the too few in number He219 that could deal with the increasing use of the Mosquito in the long-range interceptor role. However the situation over the Bay of Biscay was a different story. V Gruppe KG 40 ( Ju88C ) was given strict instructions to avoid battle with the Mosquito at all costs. In an effort to address the situation a Gruppe of Fw190s was moved to the coast and began to take a heavy toll of the Mosquito, forcing their suspension from operations over the bay at one stage. As good as they were, the Mosquito just couldn't out perform a nimble, well armed single seat fighter.
What a fighter, what a bomber what a fighter bomber. Brits loved em, the Boche hated em.
Congratulations!
A beautiful and brilliant aeroplane.
G'day,
Yay Team !
Glorious....
;-p
Ciao !
A work of art.
best twin engine ever !!
The Mosquito wasn't the only wooden fighter in WW2. The Russians built wooden fighters eg LAGG-3 to save on aluminium and other scarce-in-wartime metals, but I don't think they were as successful as the Mosquito. German fighter pilots lucky enough to shoot down a 'mossie' were awarded two 'kills', such was the reputation of this aircraft. The German Focke-Wulf company designed a similar aircraft (Ta 154) but only a few were produced.
Could be right there. The Lavochkin LaGG-3 was nicknamed the 'Varnished Guaranteed Coffin' by Soviet pilots (translated it has the same initials as LaGG). The Lavochkin La-5FN was a different matter though. One of the best fighters of WW2.
Jason, In house test pilots or did Steve Hinton come up due to his dual engine warbird hours and experience? Great to see the "Mossie" get some air!
bob dyer Steve Hinton is their test pilot. he comes up for all the newly finished restorations and some of the flight demonstrations.
NICE! Steve is a first rate stick and rudder man{his brother and son are no slouches either}
As well as using a resource not in short supply, although I think much of the timber may have been imported from the USA and Canada, it used a labour force ignored by other industries, is carpenters.
A legendary airplane and quite unique - constructed mostly of wood (plywood). Two questions, if anyone knows... Would the wood construction have made it harder to pick up on radar? Why did the designers place the wing so far forward?
I believe this must be the aircraft that Paul Allen purchased from the RAF Museum, Hendon (where they'd cut one outer wing off to adapt to their display position). It was stored for some years at Jeremy Moore's fantastic workshop in Martham, Norfolk, UK but always looked like a good candidate for a rebuild.
It was Jeremy, of course who rebuilt the collection's FW190 and Me262 which were also the most stunning rebuilds.
This was built in NZ,at Ardmore,by AV spec
@@morrisanderson818 rebuilt by them after the history I mention above.
Great video Jason!!!!!!!! Now, who owns the Corsair in this video? It has Yellow trim on the final, and the prop boss.
John Osbourn Thanks! That Corsair is Flying Heritage Collection's newest restoration! Had first post restoration flight a week ago down in Texas and arrived here yesterday and had it's debut show today.
Who else thought there was a Spitfire in the foreground in the opening shot?
Apologies for my naivete but can anyone tell me why there are only five 'exhaust pipes' visible (7:22) given that a Mosquito has V12 engines. I just had a look around UA-cam and there are five on other Mosquitoes, too. Six or three on a Spitfire. Is the sixth exhaust pipe on a Mosquito ducted to somewhere else?
Alan Grant Good question! exhausts 5 and 6 are combined due to the close proximity to the coolers inboard of the engines.
I'm not sure if this is correct or not, but I heard if a German pilot shot down a Mossie it counted as 2 kills
Mosquitoes were glued and screwed together. How well does the glue hold up after all these years?
During the War, modern style water resistance glue's hadn't been invented, like the huge range of Polymer Glues today. ALL materials were in short supply. The Mosguito's existence is owed to the fact that Britain had no aluminum to spare, but thousands of Trees, near the De Havilland factory, and huge furniture maker's with skilled woodsmen, doing nothing. ( very little furniture making was allowed) the whole thing came together miraculously. First of all, the rate of plane loss didn't allow for thoughts of long term survival of ANY plane. Post war, thousands of near new planes were either sold to smaller countries, or scrapped for re-use. Of the few Mossie's that were sent to the far East , some began to fall apart because of the monsoon rains , high humidity, and exposure to both. The plane hadn't been intended for those conditions. Today of course, ALL planes are subjected to every kind of condition during and after construction.
where is E'gap?
Just as well it was going faster than 15mph as would not have got off the ground!!!! other than that great to a Mossie in the air again.
great aircraft ,any being made airworthy in the Uk ?
zzhawker yes, there are plans to incorporate the remains of a crashed mosquito from RAF Coltishall, into an airworthy example.
Called 'The Peoples Mosquito'
Isn't this plane partly made of wood or something?
More than partly...
Looks a bit wooden.
God's own plastic...
would have said natures plastic myself.
It is a quotation from the designer of the wooden Marcos GT, Frank Costin, who also worked on the Mosquito.
well it gave me Wood.
Tidy Flying. Great to see the expertise that New Zealand (where?) engineers are able to bring to quality restorations of 'planes, cars etc. Google Omaka for a look at what Peter Jackson's personal museum is about. Then look further, Wings Over Wanaka.You will work it out from there.
Say it with wood.
Don't tell me the Germans had better aircraft, this, the Lanc and the later hawkers were the business.