I am English, and very old. The sight and sound of these aircraft is music to my ears, and quite emotional too. I had an uncle who flew the Mosquito, as a”pathfinder”, to drop flares on the target before the bombers arrived, and to photograph the results of the raid. He survived the war.
I am Canadian. And very old. My dad, who came from a small town in North Ontario flew 2 tours in a Mossie. He flew in the Battle of Britain. He was a squadron leader and a DFC holder. He also was awarded a Caterpillar medal - the small medal given after a pilot’s life is saved by a parachute. I also get quite emotional watching this and my respect for what these brave young men did grows deeper every year. All the best from a Canadian friend.
A friends father died recently aged 102. He flew Mosquitos with 571 Squadron RAF on unescorted raids to Berlin to drop single 4000lb bombs. He was still flying gliders in his late 90s. I also knew a Mosquito navigator who flew night missions from East Anglia at low level to catch the nightfighters as they landed at their airfields. They would hang around in the vicinity of the airfields at circuit height, waiting for the runway landing lights to be lit...!!!! Nerves of steel😮 What a generation they were.
The plane was built by cabinet makers who were unemployed at the time. To quote Jeffrey De Havilland “ the best. Piece of furniture Britain ever built “.
They were not unemployed. Their furniture factories were redeployed, and production was outsourced to many places in the country so that supply would not be disrupted by the loss of one factory in bombing. It did make use of underused resources and did not take away from factories needing scarce aluminium.
Goerring loved them. Hitler was supposed to have asked what he needed to beat the RAF. anything. Goerring replied; “a squadron of mosquitoes”. Hitler walked out the meeting. The jet engine was built to counter it in the end.
Sitting between two Merlin’s at full throttle in a wooden cockpit doing 415mph,I seen one at Southport air show,couldn’t believe how it kept in one piece the way the pilot threw it around unbelievable.
Its a wonder that after many decades the wooden wonder has survived let alone fly. Amazing construction and remarkably effective aircraft in its day and still is amazing. A credit to the people who designed and made these aircraft and those who worked diligently to restore this particular beauty.
I saw one fly over Manston airport during a air display. What really disgusted however was the two 'types' ( wearing RAF ties ) who couldn't identify it...there was a RAF officer standing nearby who pretty much nearly wet himself laughing...I figured out he was laughing at ME...rolling my eyes at the two idiots !
This was the aircraft which brought my mother and father together, working for DeH. at Stag Lane. My Dad was an engineer on the shop floor, whilst my Mum, just a slip of a girl, had swung herself a job in the drawing office. (She knew J. De H). They met and fell in love through one of the most extraordinary aircraft Britain ever produced. This is a wonderful video.
A huge thank you to the owner, the resources and commitment AND the folks who painstakingly got her looking and flying so beautifully again!!! What an absolute treasure!
As I watched this takeoff I thought of all the crews that flew the Mosquito during WWII, and especially the poor souls that didn't return. RIP. Superb video. Thank you.
My uncle died in one - a night fighter - they encountered a Heinkel 111 over the Thames Estuary at night on 15 September 1943 and sadly both aircraft were consumed in a big explosion when the Heinkel blew up.
I can't help but smile, watching this. I agree with you about the Mossie pilots that didn't survive. The day that the Me-262 first sortied, it announced itself by shooting down 2 Mosquitoes. My Mom's cousin flew a Mosquito. I honor ALL the airmen who fought in the sky; it was a dreadfully dangerous job.
One of the most beautiful war planes made. Thank you to all those restoring and maintaining it, those that fought in her and all those that did not return. Thank you for sharing, her memory lives on :)
Way back in the 80's, a patient of mine had been the pilot of a Mossie. Great bloke and I'll never forget his description of how huge the White cliffs looked when he was coming home, shot up and low on fuel. Huge respect to all of them.
My dad who is 88 years old started work in 1944 aged 14 in a drawing office in Walthamstow in East London. His first job was tracing AO size drawings of the tail section of the Mosquito for some reason and because of this it has always been a special aircraft for me. Thanks for this great footage.
I think Weybridge had a huge drawing room, wings could be drawn full size for airliners. As former draughtsman we would draw actual size, but they were forging tools.
@@bermudarailway5469. Of course you can talk about P51, Spitfire, but I have a special love for the Mosquito. That's my mind, it's not a"racism " for others. I LOVE him.
The Mosquito was the brainchild of the genius, Sir Geoffrey DeHavilland. It was his idea to design the aircraft to use as little metal as possible as this was at a premium in WWII. As a result he built an aircraft capable of over 400 Knots. It could outrun a spitfire with one engine shut down and was the fastest thing in the skies until the Me 262. It is also my favourite aircraft in the whole world and a truly magnificent machine. One other thing, it was also the inspiration for the A10 Warthog!!
Wow - in my front room but I was there in the cockpit! When he pushed the throttles forward and those Merlins sang the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. What a fabulous experience - brilliant experience in one of the finest aircraft ever made. Thank you so much.
@@66secularistreal men, not today's crybabies, rest in peace all of them, especially those still lost, like my wife's brother, lost over norway in his Halifax bomber 1944.
Really cool!! I hope I can see in my live and can fly from Germany to USA! Thanks for the cool flight. He 219 against Moskito was an interesting fight in the night. A lot of Heinkel 219 get shot from the Moskito. Good wishes
Mossie with a Hurricane in trail! EXCELLENT! Like the Gunsight, restored to perfection. Beautiful line-up on the airfield, hope were shown more vids of the gathering. THANKS!
I guess you all know what Goering said about the Mosquito. In essence he said he envied the British being able to build these out of wood and then that they were faster than Luftwaffe planes.
What a truly beautiful aircraft and the sound of the two Merlin’s engines is something else. The reason they were mainly built of wood is because the aluminium was becoming scarce due to the war effort, but that wasn’t the only thing built of wood. The vampire jet was also built of wood. Regards John
As a kid growing up in the 60's, my Dad took me to see 633 Squadron in the theater. I have loved the Mosquito ever since. What a glory it would be to score a ride in this beauty!
Great movie. My brothers and I watched it as kids. We always said the one guy looked just like George Harrison. But the music was outstanding! And I too have been a Mossie fan since!
48 Morons disliked this,The old boys who were young Pilots in WW2 would disagree and am Proud of each and everyone of them wether they Piloted the lanc,The Spitfire ,The Hurricane or the Mosquito they are all Heroes and owe them a dept of thanks for their Sacrifice and those who survived to old age ,Respect and lest we forget 💕💕💕Thank you for your service also 👏👏👏👏👏 To the 48 dislikes MAKE LIKE A TREE.
I agree. You have to remember that these men were in fact young lads who pretty much walked out of school and into a uniform. A week or two training in a bi-plane then they were given the keys to a 200mph Mozzy/Spit/Hurr/ or any of the 4 engined bombers etc and told to make sure they brought the aircraft back. I can NOT imagine todays teenagers being able to do that. Respect to all the older generation who defended our shores in both wars.
Stephen Powell my father got his RAF wings when he was 18. He flew P40 (didn’t like it), early mustang (under powered), hurricanes (loved it), spitfire (the Ferrari of the skies) and Typhoons (big bad and dangerous). His only regret was that he never got to pilot the Mosquito.
I'm sure my great grandfather who fought in WW1 said the same about my grandfather who fought in WW2. Maybe we should be grateful teenagers aren't expected to kill each other en masse because of the lunacy of men in ttheur 50s and 6Os
Perhaps one of the reasons is that they would have preferred to see the aeroplane from the outside, as would I for at least part of the time (though I certainly wouldn't go as far as to 'dislike' the video). In fact I enjoyed seeing Hurricane formating and then turning away more. I lived through WW2 in the UK apart from the first 4 months but as a baby and pre-schooler :) so I well appreciate the sacrifices that enabled me to live a good life. In fact a cast aluminium Mossie sits on the shelf above my desk as I type.
Very close to being my favourite plane of all time. I recently saw one some distance away giving a display above the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire and some years back flying very low over our village, seemingly en route to Duxford Air Museum in Cambridgeshire, rather than for Germany. There are so few Mosquitoes still flying - three or four? - that I could hardly believe my eyes and my ears! Thank you very much indeed for this wonderful video.
I live just up the road from the De Haviland Aircraft Museum in Hertfordshire where the Mosquito was designed. Less than a minute from Junction 22 of the M25. A must for any Mosquito fans. such a shame there are so few airworthy specimens left.
It was great going along for the ride and seeing the instruments operating and the pilot working with the trim, throttle and so on. It sounded really good too!
Turn the volume up .Way up.There s no forgetting the Greatest Generation that designed, built and flew these masterpieces.They had balls and they had brains!
Came across this by accident. My Dad - Cprl Bill Patterson was an instrument maker in the RAF 1938 to 1946 and served mainly in Abourkir, Alexandrai Egypt during WW2. This is so amazing to see. Wow. Thanks for sharing
What a beautiful restoration! Thanks to everyone involved in bringing this iconic aircraft back to life, and those engines sound just fabulous. Back in the 1980s my car used to be serviced at a small private garage in Trowbridge UK where one of the mechanics was a retired aircraft engineer who used to tune merlin engines during WW2 . Boy do I wish I had invested time to talk to him - perhaps I would have learned something valuable!
My father from Toronto took pictures from an all blue reconnaissance version for the RAF out of a base in Algiers, North Africa WWII still have some, one of them shows that he once flew beside a P38. Have some camera filters and a cockpit black light that was used to illuminated the instruments. Also, have a gold plated pocket watch, knife, and medals. There's one in Victoria BC near me.
I saw this formation of Merlins from the ground that year. It gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling. :) I'm going to the airshow again today, and hoping to also see the Spitfire fly this year.
Thank you so much for putting this on ,she's a credit to. You all not only for the hard work of the people who spend many hours in keeping her flying and airworthy ,but also to the memory of those that took them into battle to become the envy of the German armed forces, long may she keep flying
Any person that get's to climb on board a Mosquito and go for a ride is one lucky individual. VERY VERY few people in the world today get to ride (or even more rare, actually take the controls and PILOT) in a Mosquito. There are only a few of these even airworthy in the entire world. Very lucky indeed. Although incredibly dangerous and at great peril to your own life, it must have been one hell of a thrill to fly this bad boy on sorties in WWII, especially for a young man just out of their teens or in their early 20's. de Havilland were at the top of their game when they built this.
Truly awesome!!! I felt I was in the plane as well. I could not believe the amount of dials and gadgets in the cockpit, I had imagined it would have been basic but it was really quite high tech for that time. It must have required a lot of training and skill to fly it, and then having to fight off other planes as well is mind blowing. Great video thanks for uploading.
I've heard that Merlin hum many many times but have never seen (or heard) a video like this which indicates what it sounds like in the cockpit. Amazing - it must be such a buzz to fly this (wish I could fly !)....excellent video !
What a wonderful memorial for my Dad! He was a navigator in Mossies in Burma and thank you, thank you - that's just the view he would have had during operationsas a navigator - it makes it real for me.
Great video! i especially liked the many different view angles, inside the cockpit and looking all around. The Hurricane flying alongside is supercool!
And that is a taste of the aircraft based at Virginia Beach Military Air Museum. Warbirds Over the Beach is well worth the visit. Tons of flying and close proximity as well.
Thanks for that. I served in the RAF during the early 50s and was stationed at a couple of airfields where Spitfires, Mosquitos, Lancasters and Typhoons were still flying. Great memories.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end when I saw the Hurricane flying formation. Thanks for letting me finally know what it's like to fly in a Mozzi!
agree about just hearing those merlin engines and no music, fantastic all round vision better than a lot of fighters of the time would love to have a trip in one we owe a lot to those wartime pilots
That Hurricane would never have kept up with the Mosquito on an actual mission. Worthy Merlins, you can feel the power of their torque in your headphones 😊
Absolutely wonderful! That's fabulous footage and the closest sadly that I'm ever likely to get to being in the cockpit of a Mosquito. The sight of the Hurricane on your port side was the cherry on the cake, and then the sight of all the warbirds lined up as you came in to land, superb.
This past September, I was in Copenhagen and saw the reconstructed Shell House that was bombed by RAF Mossys in the latter part of WWII as it housed the Gestopo and Danish resistance prisoners. Watching the low pass by the hangars gave me a glimpse of what the crews might have seen as the roared in at roof top level over the city of Copenhagen. Thank you! Patrick From Albuquerque
Over the years I've seen almost every British and American ww2 aircraft up close and airborne but never a mosquito. Such a iconic plane Britain's down and dirty bomber and versatile too. Maybe one day.
Name a better looking ww2 aircraft then.... The spitfire was nice, but the mosquito is better. American fighters were all ugly, with only the mustang being decent, and the mostly dull looking bombers, Russian, Italian aircraft were a complete joke before the war started and didn't get better, the Germans had alot of innovative designs, but mostly they ended up looking ugly also, the japanese had dull looking aircraft at best and that includes the zero. Later British aircraft like typhoon, ect never had the clean lines of the spitfire and there's not much else I can think of which is worth mentioning
To this day, I still try to get my head around how new this aircraft looks. Ex-factory "the day before yesterday" new. We're so used to seeing these war machines beaten up and treated as tools of war rather than the beautiful and iconic machines that they are. Wonderful! :)
A magnificent plane from the second world war. probably my favourite. An amazing insight and video. The Hurricane tagging along the icing on the cake, well done!!!
Wow. We used to see the Mossie over Welwyn, UK, way back. Sadly it crashed some time ago. The cockpit view in this video was amazing. Most of the wartime aircraft were built near here, at Leavesden or Hatfield. From Mr. Goering, CEO of the Luftwaffe: In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked.[104] Ta, Wikipedia.
johnny rotten how do you know that I wasn't the first? Hopefully your move works out well, though undoubtedly there will be things that you will miss from old blighty.
That was awesome!!!. Those engines where great too!!! Sorry after that I have to go have a cigarette now!! And i don't smoke......LOL Thanks for the ride!
It’s my #1, beyond the plane itself, it’s the whole idea of its concept and production that is unique. Using crafts outside the realm of aeronautics it pure genius. It’s the plus that make a difference with other magnificent aircrafts.
Hi freinds. I made another video similar to this in Hamilton Ontario where the escort was even better! ua-cam.com/video/nM2ZQj6YjiA/v-deo.html
bombs away!
Too short and too high. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
warbirdresto bloody hell, what an absolutely terrific UA-cam download. Marvellous!!! Thank you.🇬🇧👍
Oh yes, please, please, pleaaaaaaaaase !!!!! 😉
warbirdresto are you in Hamilton? Is this plane open for visitors? I love to gawk at it if I’m allow. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I am English, and very old. The sight and sound of these aircraft is music to my ears, and quite emotional too. I had an uncle who flew the Mosquito, as a”pathfinder”, to drop flares on the target before the bombers arrived, and to photograph the results of the raid. He survived the war.
Ditto. My uncles aircraft had 4 marlins but the sound is awesome with 2
I am Canadian. And very old. My dad, who came from a small town in North Ontario flew 2 tours in a Mossie. He flew in the Battle of Britain. He was a squadron leader and a DFC holder. He also was awarded a Caterpillar medal - the small medal given after a pilot’s life is saved by a parachute. I also get quite emotional watching this and my respect for what these brave young men did grows deeper every year.
All the best from a Canadian friend.
A friends father died recently aged 102. He flew Mosquitos with 571 Squadron RAF on unescorted raids to Berlin to drop single 4000lb bombs. He was still flying gliders in his late 90s. I also knew a Mosquito navigator who flew night missions from East Anglia at low level to catch the nightfighters as they landed at their airfields. They would hang around in the vicinity of the airfields at circuit height, waiting for the runway landing lights to be lit...!!!!
Nerves of steel😮 What a generation they were.
👏👏👏👏👏 Aqui do Brazil 🇧🇷, conhecê-lo seria uma grande honra .
Please stop you are polish
When you built a bomber faster than fighters, you can say you did a very good job.
Rado 243 be like:
You don't need Machine-gun...
And one initially rejected by the War Office…
and made of wood!
Too bloody right!
Twin merlin with a beautiful plane in the the middle, perfection ❤
Thank you to all those brave men and women who gave their all.
Thank you for not putting shitty music over the sound of those Rolls Royce Merlin engines!
Great comment!
That would be blaphemy.
the sound of engines is music to them who love airplanes!
No kidding....drives me nuts when they do that
@Andrew Ongais Three is transcendent, the 3rd being the Hurricane flying formation for a while.
The plane was built by cabinet makers who were unemployed at the time. To quote Jeffrey De Havilland “ the best. Piece of furniture Britain ever built “.
Sawbridgeworth.. On the essex/herts border I think.
@Jolly Rancher Hitler didn't want it in his house... 👊🏼🇬🇧😉 😂
They were not unemployed. Their furniture factories were redeployed, and production was outsourced to many places in the country so that supply would not be disrupted by the loss of one factory in bombing. It did make use of underused resources and did not take away from factories needing scarce aluminium.
Goerring loved them. Hitler was supposed to have asked what he needed to beat the RAF. anything. Goerring replied; “a squadron of mosquitoes”. Hitler walked out the meeting. The jet engine was built to counter it in the end.
@@shaunbrown85 That was the Mosquito raid bombing Berlin during a Goerring radio Broadcast in 1941
My favourite aircraft, my lovely mum helped make these during the war.
Sitting between two Merlin’s at full throttle in a wooden cockpit doing 415mph,I seen one at Southport air show,couldn’t believe how it kept in one piece the way the pilot threw it around unbelievable.
Good show
Its a wonder that after many decades the wooden wonder has survived let alone fly. Amazing construction and remarkably effective aircraft in its day and still is amazing. A credit to the people who designed and made these aircraft and those who worked diligently to restore this particular beauty.
I saw one fly over Manston airport during a air display. What really disgusted however was the two 'types' ( wearing RAF ties ) who couldn't identify it...there was a RAF officer standing nearby who pretty much nearly wet himself laughing...I figured out he was laughing at ME...rolling my eyes at the two idiots !
This was the aircraft which brought my mother and father together, working for DeH. at Stag Lane. My Dad was an engineer on the shop floor, whilst my Mum, just a slip of a girl, had swung herself a job in the drawing office. (She knew J. De H). They met and fell in love through one of the most extraordinary aircraft Britain ever produced. This is a wonderful video.
I think that the Stag Lane factory was no longer in use by WWII. The Mosquito was built at DeHavilland’s Hatfield facility
One of the most fabulous aircraft ever built. Period.
Real hands on flying ❤ thanks for giving us the chance to see and hear this beauty from onboard
Surreal. Especially with the Hurricane off the wing. Great video.
How could anyone ever give this video a thumbs down? It is simply stunning, and those engines.....
A huge thank you to the owner, the resources and commitment AND the folks who painstakingly got her looking and flying so beautifully again!!! What an absolute treasure!
I was gonna say, that interior is pristine. Well done to all who contributed to that effort..👏👍
Go the Kiwis.
As I watched this takeoff I thought of all the crews that flew the Mosquito during WWII, and especially the poor souls that didn't return. RIP. Superb video. Thank you.
Simonize41 .... Guy Gibson was one of those. Crashed over Holland.
REF: THE AMIENS RAID. one of the RAF's finest went down with his Mossie on that day.
Luckily the mosquito brought most of the crews home. 👍
My uncle died in one - a night fighter - they encountered a Heinkel 111 over the Thames Estuary at night on 15 September 1943 and sadly both aircraft were consumed in a big explosion when the Heinkel blew up.
I can't help but smile, watching this. I agree with you about the Mossie pilots that didn't survive. The day that the Me-262 first sortied, it announced itself by shooting down 2 Mosquitoes. My Mom's cousin flew a Mosquito. I honor ALL the airmen who fought in the sky; it was a dreadfully dangerous job.
One of the most beautiful war planes made. Thank you to all those restoring and maintaining it, those that fought in her and all those that did not return. Thank you for sharing, her memory lives on :)
IMO , not "one of".......but THE most beautiful.
A fellow British car club member flew these in WW ll AFTER he flew a full tour in B-24s. RIP Roland (Bush) Bushner. I am glad to have known you.
Way back in the 80's, a patient of mine had been the pilot of a Mossie. Great bloke and I'll never forget his description of how huge the White cliffs looked when he was coming home, shot up and low on fuel. Huge respect to all of them.
My dad who is 88 years old started work in 1944 aged 14 in a drawing office in Walthamstow in East London. His first job was tracing AO size drawings of the tail section of the Mosquito for some reason and because of this it has always been a special aircraft for me. Thanks for this great footage.
I think Weybridge had a huge drawing room, wings could be drawn full size for airliners. As former draughtsman we would draw actual size, but they were forging tools.
one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built
THE most genius.
What do you mean one of ?
@@bermudarailway5469. Of course, but for me it's a jewel.
@@bermudarailway5469. Of course you can talk about P51, Spitfire, but I have a special love for the Mosquito. That's my mind, it's not a"racism " for others. I LOVE him.
The Mosquito was the brainchild of the genius, Sir Geoffrey DeHavilland. It was his idea to design the aircraft to use as little metal as possible as this was at a premium in WWII. As a result he built an aircraft capable of over 400 Knots. It could outrun a spitfire with one engine shut down and was the fastest thing in the skies until the Me 262. It is also my favourite aircraft in the whole world and a truly magnificent machine. One other thing, it was also the inspiration for the A10 Warthog!!
Ah, the sweet sound of roaring Merlin's, gives me goosebumps.
Wow - in my front room but I was there in the cockpit! When he pushed the throttles forward and those Merlins sang the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. What a fabulous experience - brilliant experience in one of the finest aircraft ever made. Thank you so much.
That, children, is the sound of your freedom.
Flown by men barely out of their teens. Unbelievable.
@@66secularistreal men, not today's crybabies, rest in peace all of them, especially those still lost, like my wife's brother, lost over norway in his Halifax bomber 1944.
God bless them all. Our greatest generation. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇭🇲🇳🇿
Really cool!!
I hope I can see in my live and can fly from Germany to USA!
Thanks for the cool flight.
He 219 against Moskito was an interesting fight in the night.
A lot of Heinkel 219 get shot from the Moskito.
Good wishes
What a great war bird and another, a Hurricane, up there for company too! Superb video. Thank you!
Mossie with a Hurricane in trail! EXCELLENT! Like the Gunsight, restored to perfection. Beautiful line-up on the airfield, hope were shown more vids of the gathering. THANKS!
I guess you all know what Goering said about the Mosquito. In essence he said he envied the British being able to build these out of wood and then that they were faster than Luftwaffe planes.
What a truly beautiful aircraft and the sound of the two Merlin’s engines is something else. The reason they were mainly built of wood is because the aluminium was becoming scarce due to the war effort, but that wasn’t the only thing built of wood. The vampire jet was also built of wood. Regards John
Perfect soundtrack to the video.
My favorite ww2 bomber
Love the sound of those engines at full throttle. What I wouldn't give for a fly along on that plane.
Most impressed me the Mosquito cockpit with beautiful analog flight instruments! Warbirdresto ....thanks so much .
I am almost speechless. Beautiful video, thank you so much!
BEAUTIFUL !!!
As a kid growing up in the 60's, my Dad took me to see 633 Squadron in the theater. I have loved the Mosquito ever since. What a glory it would be to score a ride in this beauty!
My dad also took me to see 633 squadron i the 1960s and I also loved the aeroplane.I also love the P51 mustang.
Great movie. My brothers and I watched it as kids. We always said the one guy looked just like George Harrison. But the music was outstanding! And I too have been a Mossie fan since!
That's my home town! So proud of this beautiful bird!!!
Excellent video. Gorgeous plane, the safest to fly in WW2. Thanks to all who restored her. Well done, indeed.
Nice video! Good cockpit shots! Thanks!😊
48 Morons disliked this,The old boys who were young Pilots in WW2 would disagree and am Proud of each and everyone of them wether they Piloted the lanc,The Spitfire ,The Hurricane or the Mosquito they are all Heroes and owe them a dept of thanks for their Sacrifice and those who survived to old age ,Respect and lest we forget 💕💕💕Thank you for your service also 👏👏👏👏👏 To the 48 dislikes MAKE LIKE A TREE.
I agree. You have to remember that these men were in fact young lads who pretty much walked out of school and into a uniform. A week or two training in a bi-plane then they were given the keys to a 200mph Mozzy/Spit/Hurr/ or any of the 4 engined bombers etc and told to make sure they brought the aircraft back. I can NOT imagine todays teenagers being able to do that. Respect to all the older generation who defended our shores in both wars.
Stephen Powell my father got his RAF wings when he was 18. He flew P40 (didn’t like it), early mustang (under powered), hurricanes (loved it), spitfire (the Ferrari of the skies) and Typhoons (big bad and dangerous). His only regret was that he never got to pilot the Mosquito.
I'm sure my great grandfather who fought in WW1 said the same about my grandfather who fought in WW2. Maybe we should be grateful teenagers aren't expected to kill each other en masse because of the lunacy of men in ttheur 50s and 6Os
181 morons now.
Jealousy I guess it's the usual motivator for bad behaveour
Perhaps one of the reasons is that they would have preferred to see the aeroplane from the outside, as would I for at least part of the time (though I certainly wouldn't go as far as to 'dislike' the video). In fact I enjoyed seeing Hurricane formating and then turning away more.
I lived through WW2 in the UK apart from the first 4 months but as a baby and pre-schooler :) so I well appreciate the sacrifices that enabled me to live a good life. In fact a cast aluminium Mossie sits on the shelf above my desk as I type.
Just the best footage!.....I Love this aircraft
Fantastic! Thanks so much for posting. Great to see the cockpit of the aircraft my Grandad was a navigator in during the war. (29 Squadron)
Brilliant. Top quality and what an experience. Takes me back to when I was 18 and served on stations where Mosquitos still operational. Many thanks.
My grandfather used to fly across to Sweden in one from Scotland in ww2 always wondered what inside was like thanks for sharing
Very close to being my favourite plane of all time. I recently saw one some distance away giving a display above the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire and some years back flying very low over our village, seemingly en route to Duxford Air Museum in Cambridgeshire, rather than for Germany. There are so few Mosquitoes still flying - three or four? - that I could hardly believe my eyes and my ears! Thank you very much indeed for this wonderful video.
That was a great video! Thanks for posting this.
I live just up the road from the De Haviland Aircraft Museum in Hertfordshire where the Mosquito was designed. Less than a minute from Junction 22 of the M25. A must for any Mosquito fans. such a shame there are so few airworthy specimens left.
Ahh THE Mosquito ! A perfect bird. A Masterpiece. So much creativity in this plane. A jewel of brit engineering.
It was great going along for the ride and seeing the instruments operating and the pilot working with the trim, throttle and so on. It sounded really good too!
Turn the volume up .Way up.There s no forgetting the Greatest Generation that designed, built and flew these masterpieces.They had balls and they had brains!
Much of the war materials, including aircraft, were built by women. Just as in the First World War, "Balls" clearly do not enter into it.
@@omen828 Many Mosquitoes were built in Canada then flown across the Atlantic to Britain by women who, figuratively speaking, definitely had balls.
What an awesome machine! Great footage! My favourite twin prop aircraft of all time. Even looks better than many modern day twin props.
My favorite piston engine plane of all time. With twin Merlins and light weight construction this beautiful machine Hauls Ass !!!
I love airshow, to be able to go out and see these old warlords is a treasure
Came across this by accident. My Dad - Cprl Bill Patterson was an instrument maker in the RAF 1938 to 1946 and served mainly in Abourkir, Alexandrai Egypt during WW2. This is so amazing to see. Wow. Thanks for sharing
Awesome!!. My dad was Navigator in a Mossie FBvi with Ian Linney, to see this & experience flight is fantastic, well done to everyone involved
What a beautiful restoration! Thanks to everyone involved in bringing this iconic aircraft back to life, and those engines sound just fabulous.
Back in the 1980s my car used to be serviced at a small private garage in Trowbridge UK where one of the mechanics was a retired aircraft engineer who used to tune merlin engines during WW2 . Boy do I wish I had invested time to talk to him - perhaps I would have learned something valuable!
Can’t get the 544 squadron theme out of my head now. Class video.
633 squadron per chance? da-da-da, da-da-da, dah-dah. That one?
My father from Toronto took pictures from an all blue reconnaissance version for the RAF out of a base in Algiers, North Africa WWII still have some, one of them shows that he once flew beside a P38.
Have some camera filters and a cockpit black light that was used to illuminated the instruments.
Also, have a gold plated pocket watch, knife, and medals. There's one in Victoria BC near me.
Wow... !!! My best friend, Great... We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks Have a happy day!
I saw this formation of Merlins from the ground that year. It gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling. :)
I'm going to the airshow again today, and hoping to also see the Spitfire fly this year.
Thank you so much for putting this on ,she's a credit to. You all not only for the hard work of the people who spend many hours in keeping her flying and airworthy ,but also to the memory of those that took them into battle to become the envy of the German armed forces, long may she keep flying
A fabulous video of an iconic warbird thankyou so much for this
Well, that was probably the best on board clip that I have ever seen. Excellent!
stunning ! must have taken a lot of time to refurbish . well done everybody . still gobsmacked !!!!
OK ,Thank you for update . Still stunning ! Well done to everybody for new build !!!
What a work of art.
I remember watching the 633 Squadron on the telly.
Guy Gibson was eventually killed flying one of these superb aircraft on another dangerous low level op.Fantastic video and thanks for sharing.
Any person that get's to climb on board a Mosquito and go for a ride is one lucky individual. VERY VERY few people in the world today get to ride (or even more rare, actually take the controls and PILOT) in a Mosquito. There are only a few of these even airworthy in the entire world. Very lucky indeed. Although incredibly dangerous and at great peril to your own life, it must have been one hell of a thrill to fly this bad boy on sorties in WWII, especially for a young man just out of their teens or in their early 20's. de Havilland were at the top of their game when they built this.
Absolutely stunning aircraft not that you can say you have a favourite from the era but the Mossi might just be it.
Truly awesome!!! I felt I was in the plane as well. I could not believe the amount of dials and gadgets in the cockpit, I had imagined it would have been basic but it was really quite high tech for that time. It must have required a lot of training and skill to fly it, and then having to fight off other planes as well is mind blowing. Great video thanks for uploading.
I've heard that Merlin hum many many times but have never seen (or heard) a video like this which indicates what it sounds like in the cockpit. Amazing - it must be such a buzz to fly this (wish I could fly !)....excellent video !
What a wonderful memorial for my Dad! He was a navigator in Mossies in Burma and thank you, thank you - that's just the view he would have had during operationsas a navigator - it makes it real for me.
Great video! i especially liked the many different view angles, inside the cockpit and looking all around. The Hurricane flying alongside is supercool!
Fantastic plane! Thanks for sharing, and greets from the Netherlands!
That’s awesome! Nice surprise seeing the Hurricane alongside. Beautiful. Thanks
And that is a taste of the aircraft based at Virginia Beach Military Air Museum. Warbirds Over the Beach is well worth the visit. Tons of flying and close proximity as well.
What a beauty !!! It seems that DCS did a good job! :)
During the war I got friendly with a lady airwomen whose boyfriend used to fly around our house and give us a wave in his mosquito.marvelous.
I love the hurricane flying in close formation!
Thanks for that. I served in the RAF during the early 50s and was stationed at a couple of airfields where Spitfires, Mosquitos, Lancasters and Typhoons were still flying. Great memories.
What a bit of footage. FANTASTIC !!!!!
Very nice sound and vision. Thanks for sharing.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end when I saw the Hurricane flying formation. Thanks for letting me finally know what it's like to fly in a Mozzi!
agree about just hearing those merlin engines and no music, fantastic all round vision better than a lot of fighters of the time
would love to have a trip in one we owe a lot to those wartime pilots
That Hurricane would never have kept up with the Mosquito on an actual mission. Worthy Merlins, you can feel the power of their torque in your headphones 😊
Absolutely wonderful! That's fabulous footage and the closest sadly that I'm ever likely to get to being in the cockpit of a Mosquito. The sight of the Hurricane on your port side was the cherry on the cake, and then the sight of all the warbirds lined up as you came in to land, superb.
That sounded so good through my headphones. ^_^
Even though you made this post a year ago I do have to agree with you 100%, headphones are a must.
dat #MerlinASMR
This past September, I was in Copenhagen and saw the reconstructed Shell House that was bombed by RAF Mossys in the latter part of WWII as it housed the Gestopo and Danish resistance prisoners. Watching the low pass by the hangars gave me a glimpse of what the crews might have seen as the roared in at roof top level over the city of Copenhagen. Thank you!
Patrick
From Albuquerque
What a Smooth & Sweet Sound to that Airplane. Thanks.
Over the years I've seen almost every British and American ww2 aircraft up close and airborne but never a mosquito. Such a iconic plane Britain's down and dirty bomber and versatile too. Maybe one day.
Most beautiful aeroplane of WW2
Name a better looking ww2 aircraft then....
The spitfire was nice, but the mosquito is better. American fighters were all ugly, with only the mustang being decent, and the mostly dull looking bombers, Russian, Italian aircraft were a complete joke before the war started and didn't get better, the Germans had alot of innovative designs, but mostly they ended up looking ugly also, the japanese had dull looking aircraft at best and that includes the zero. Later British aircraft like typhoon, ect never had the clean lines of the spitfire and there's not much else I can think of which is worth mentioning
What about the Corsair? I'm English but still prefer the Corsair.
Christian Buczko
The P40 War Hawk was a beauty
ChorltonM21
Let's not forget the P38 Lighting. Twin engine, dual fuselage. I beg to differ with you.
Escala Coco no not @ all
Amazing .Looks like constant graft keeping her in the air .Well done .
What a great video. And what a beautiful bird! Love the Mossie!!!
I'm so jealous as I'd give my right one to be able to fly it. Very good clip. More please
To this day, I still try to get my head around how new this aircraft looks. Ex-factory "the day before yesterday" new. We're so used to seeing these war machines beaten up and treated as tools of war rather than the beautiful and iconic machines that they are. Wonderful! :)
What a great video content and quality! Mosquito was a fabulous aircraft for the Allies. Fast, Survivable, and Deadly
A magnificent plane from the second world war. probably my favourite. An amazing insight and video. The Hurricane tagging along the icing on the cake, well done!!!
That graceful Hurri-beauty stole the show! Great vid!
Wow. We used to see the Mossie over Welwyn, UK, way back. Sadly it crashed some time ago. The cockpit view in this video was amazing. Most of the wartime aircraft were built near here, at Leavesden or Hatfield. From Mr. Goering, CEO of the Luftwaffe:
In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft,
but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green
and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than
we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano
factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have
now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the
British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the
nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set -
then at least I'll own something that has always worked.[104]
Ta, Wikipedia.
'The grass is always greener...'
Those nincompoops got both the Russians and the Americans into space, and without them America would never have got close to the moon.
Neil Wilson you should move there too! Jackass! Bye!
johnny rotten and where is this utopia you plan on moving to?
johnny rotten how do you know that I wasn't the first? Hopefully your move works out well, though undoubtedly there will be things that you will miss from old blighty.
That was awesome!!!. Those engines where great too!!! Sorry after that I have to go have a cigarette now!! And i don't smoke......LOL Thanks for the ride!
What a wonderful video about an aircraft that had no equals during the Second World War. Than you for sharing.
It really looks and sounds like a high performance machine. Love that hum of the two engines.
Recoil Spring I saw a video of a Mossie flying on one engine!!
I’m amazed anyone that flew these could still hear years later! Merlins were loud even by WWII standards. What music though!
It’s my #1, beyond the plane itself, it’s the whole idea of its concept and production that is unique. Using crafts outside the realm of aeronautics it pure genius. It’s the plus that make a difference with other magnificent aircrafts.