De Havilland Mosquito 29th Sept 2012. Low High Speed Fly By 1 of 4.
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- The De Havilland Mosquito. After a rebuild by Avspecs Ltd Ardmore that took several years. Here it flies at its first public flight at Ardmore Airfield. Auckland. New Zealand.
One of the most beautiful aeroplanes of all time.
Amen. When style isn't buried by function.
name a better one
@Hoa Tattis I know, it must be hell, coming second all the while, but, the TRUTH will out !!
@Hoa Tattis NOTHING IS !
@@spikespa5208 And that, is pure ART.
Some trees desire to be paper when they grow up. Others desire to be the frame of a mosquito.
Haha well said
@@mariolisa2832 yeah, quite poetic.
Flying low to give inspiration to saplings.
this plane has never received the recognition it deserved during the second world war...what a joy to see one flying again!
In the worst missions of war over german !!!!!!
Tim, it DID achieve recognition during WW2 - it was nicknamed 'The Wooden Wonder.'
@@johndean4998 HERMAN GOERING THOUGHT SO, ESPECIALLY WHEN TWO GROUPS OF THREE MOSQUITO'S , FIRSTLY, BOMBED AND TOTALLY DESTROYED HIS BIG NATIONAL RADIO SPEECH TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, AFTER BOMBING AND STRAFING BERLIN . 4 HOURS LATER, THE OTHER 3 DID THE SAME JOB, FOR LITTLE JOE GOEBBALS SPEECH. WERE THEY PISSED OFF?
Thats a common error, I can't think why. THOSE PEOPLE, who flew in them have always loved the Mosquito.@@johndean4998
yes that was a day to remember finally my dream came true a real mossie before my eyes
Thanks for that...my Dad would have been thrilled to see the old girl still in the air.
Nice job.
Fastest piece of British wood i've ever seen ❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧
Mostly Canadian and Australian
Amazing. It’s performance in WW2 was exemplary. A strong wooden frame fitted with two merlin engines, Agile and able to operate at low level causing devastation wherever it went. Thanks for the upload.
Kinda hard to imagine a wooden frame holding a whole bunch of bombs AND 2 ferocious Merlins at full speed without just falling apart…
@@mariolisa2832 glued together like an Airfix model aeroplane
@@smarterthananatheist Yep---but the glue was not too happy in the far eastern humidity, but we don't mention that---oops.
@@MrDaiseymay The glue was changed after the trails in Burma and Australia, then again for the ones built in Australia.
The sound of a legendary plane! The sound of a legendary engine! It makes me shudder! It creates a real emotion for me! My imagination goes far!
Le son d'un avion mythique! Le son d'un moteur mythique! Cela me fait frémir! Cela me crée une réelle émotion! Mon imagination part au loin!
Really glad you enjoyed it Yves.
Outstanding. Thank you for the post. The finest allied warbird of WW2.
Incredible beautiful old bird❤️
Awesome! What a world beater, great job by Avspecs!
Such a beauty! And a lovely voice she has too!
Love the way the Kiwi authorities allow it to do low passes over the crowd, unlike the prissy CAA in Britain.
I have been to the last three Classic Fighters Omaka air shows and, each time, I've sat up in the stand, surrounded by enthusiastic Australians. One of them told me that they love coming over here for air shows. He said, in Australia, civil aviation regulations place limits of what organisers and pilots can do at air shows, but in New Zealand, the pilots are allowed to "fly them like they stole them".
My best-ever desktop photo was taken at the 2015 CFO, when the Mark XIV Spitfire, making its first public outing since crashing nineteen years earlier, came around the corner of the spectator area in an eighty-degree bank, fifty feet off the ground at 250 miles per hour.
Don't tell the late Niel Williams as he might return to give it a blast
Thanks nice video, if a bit jumpy. Two Merlins are magical well done Kiwis wish we still had ours in the UK. The first MRCA and some !
A thing of beauty
Is a joy for ever
YET ,SO DEADLY
Still incredible
It is so great to see a Mossie flying again
One amazing airplane!!!
I was at that airshow, the Hood aerodrome to be precise, sent shivers up my spine, everyone was just so awestruck!!!
This video looks like it was shot at Ardmore.
Yes this was Ardmore
@@verbails yup Ardmore
Rumor has it that in the early part of the Mossie service one was returning from Germany after a photo mission and they sent a couple of Spitfires out to escort it back. The Mossie had to back off so the Spitfires could keep up.
The movie '633 squadron ' is the one to watch, totally recommended if you like me adore these mosquito aeroplanes, totally made of wood, (could not be picked up by radar) none were kept back then because of their non scrap metal value.
@@gregspooner2287 they outran everything at the start of the war apparently
The Brits made some beautiful aircraft.
and quite functional too
For the Mosquito that isn't a high speed flyby. It's a seriously fast aircraft.
Nor is it low for the Mosquito. My Grandfather flew them and they would fly low enough as he put it "make the trees flinch."
They don't want to push the throttle 'through the gate', or to full, since it wears the engine down like hell (Roald Dahl in 'Going Solo' mentioned that they can only be at full power for a few minutes or the Merlin tears itself apart... literally). Also, the pilots want to extend the lives of these engines as much as possible, since they aren't exactly easy to replace or find parts for. I don't think Merlins or the American variant Packard V-1650 have been made in years.
@soaringtractor but several variants were good for well in excess of 400mph wilbur, but lets not tell the full facts eh
@soaringtractor every Mosquito variant was capable of exceeding 360 mph.
@@tetragon2137 Merlins are easy to get, there are still a lot of canned one's available they're just not cheap.
The Mosquito has to be the big brother to the Spitfire.
After all, like the Spitfire, it's a damn gorgeous plane but doesn't have one, but _TWO_ Merlin engines ;-))...
Beautiful mate.. I saw this over Wellington 👍✈️🇳🇿👍✈️
The greatest aircraft of ww2 ❤
Blue Leader to all sections. Enemy anti-aircraft intact. Keep your eyes open--we're going in.
Such a versatile aircraft.
go-man go he's giving her some welly, great stuff.
Sounds so good when the planes roaring by drowns out the toddler rambling.
Daehawk I love the Mosquito but......I would rather hear the toddler rambling, she reminds of the thousands of toddlers silenced forever by Churchill's RAF. #LeonardCheshire
Let the little ones be little ones
@@stewartnicol3028 "...the thousands of toddlers silenced forever by Churchill's RAF".
While you are on that subject, would you like to give Hitler's Luftwaffe equal mention?
Just to be fair and reasonable...
@@stewartnicol3028 oh fuck you sad sack of shite .. so i guess the Nazi's and the Japanese were peace loving , chocolate giving good guys .. you pleb stfu
@@elwolf8536 wellthey shouldn't be at a fucking airshow then , should they .. it isn't a playground
and to think when I was a kid there were loads of them unwanted and parked at Bournemouth Hurn airport awaiting disposal. Probably ended up as firewood.
The Ministry of Aircraft Production studied all the aircraft made for WWII and found that, by measurement of outlay (design, construction, factory floor-space committed to production, labour involved, pilot / navigator training, training of ground-crews and ground-crew labour) to results (bombs and gunfire that hit the target / value to the enemy of the destroyed targets) divided by aircraft / crews lost and killed; the Mosquito was the most successful aircraft in WWII.
The US Bombing Survey post-WWII said it was the Martin B26 Marauder.
Poetry in motion!
i agree mate i hope theres more
WAD'YA say now ? Three flying and one nearly finished in 2021.
The best mossy bite on record
amazing aircraft the best ever fighter bomber!!!
The sound though, twin merlins.
The ultimate Merlin engined aircraft
Awesome
"You can't kill a Squadron."
633 squadron I believe
Capable of visiting Berlin twice a day, and often did. The sound that won the war.
Anyone else hear the 633 Squadron theme in their head when they watch this?
No. Just the Merlins. That's all we need.
Unfortunately the movie 633 Squadron, destroyed some of the few last airworthy mosquitoes during production, one of them by having it land and then retract the undercarriage to simulate a collapse. Fans of the aircraft have never forgiven them!
@Hoa Tattis The mosquitos were fabulous, but the rest of the movie was crap. I read the book later...
@@MarsFKA WELL SAID ! I was trying not to mention that crap film, even though of course, the true STARS ( Mozzies) were great.
@Hoa Tattis heh heh even playing Candians. It's called, ACTING !
BEW - TI - FUL !!
I'm surprised that the pilot was allowed to display the aircraft directly over the crowd (which is not allowed at UK airshows).
New Zealand hasn't gotten that regulated I guess
He was over the runway.
@@MarsFKA Yes, he was over the runway, but momentarily and at right angles to it. On both runs he flew over the cameraman, the spectators standing beside their parked cars, and over the hospitality tents, following a reciprocal route. A mechanical failure or a moment's inattention could have been fatal for many more than just the pilot.
@@johndean4998 I don't know who the pilot was on the day that this video was made, but I do know that the pilots who are rated to fly the Mosquitos made in New Zealand do not have moments of inattention, especially when flying that close to the ground.
It also appears that what the pilot did on the day that this video was made was within civil aviation regulations.
@@marklittle8805 NOPE---BALLS OF STEEL , and the Men !
Me: uuuh i think i heard mosquitos
friend: just slap em
The Mosquitos:
The wooden wonder.
I was hoping to hear the sound I heard in the film "617 Squadron" a special whine of two synchronized Merlins and maybe some airframe woosh. If you like that kind of thing, it's goosebumps. This one was piloted too conservatively.
She did some special missions. The Gestapo torture prison...wow.
This "conservatively" piloted aircraft was brand-new and bought and paid for by an American customer. There was no way that any pilot was going to throw it around as if it was in combat.
@@MarsFKA funny what people don't bother to know eh!
The flights that day were to show off her lines and the amazing job AvSpecs had done and let the crowd - upward of 10,000 people - hear the plane in the air and on the ground.
the wooden wonder in action.
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WOW
My friend aircraft
Glyn Powell is God.
Not to knock the Mosquito which is undoubtedly a fineaircraft but the glue used to manufacture them is now 70 plus years old Are the airframe maintained to replace and repair it ???
That Mate,is a brand new mossie,built in New Zealand. 2 more have since been built,all for US customers.
The glue back then was probably boiled up horses 🤣
@@ianevans67 only the hooves. When it was applied, they were so pleased, they said it was a walk-over.
The glue was synthetic back then, and the airframes regularly underwent 'glue checks'.
There are very few people, perhaps none, who can now do the checks and certify a Mosquito to fly.
The new re-creations employ a modern glue of similar performance, fully tested and certified for a certain number of years.
It's rather like owning a 1930s biplane such as a Tiger Moth today.
@@ianevans67 it was a special brew , one that the Germans couldn’t match and ultimately doomed their version of the mozzie
Luftwaffe nightmate
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What causes that mis-match of prop speed and camera speed--can it be corrected ?
It requires slowing down the 'shutter speed' of a digital camera so that the propellor blades can blue slightly.
This is possible with trad cameras, not sure about digital; it doesn't seem to happen in digitally-shot modern movies.
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