'twas Keith Skilling I believe.
'twas Keith Skilling I believe.
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
My uncle was the bomb aimer in a Mossie during the war. He had two more missions to fly before being pulled off operations. His plane got hit over France on a raid. They cleared the English coast and crashed about a mile inland. None survived.
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The build featured on Close-Up earlier in the week, and then again last night. Said the plane would be shown at Ardmore, then off to the the US. Does that mean its been sold to some billionaire over there?
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
It was suggested at one stage they build more Mosquitos and quit the Lancasters
Mosquito - the alternative strategic bomber http://www.2worldwar2.com/mosquito-2.htm
Bomber command used the De Havilland Mosquito to improve the very poor accuracy of the heavy bombers and to reduce their losses, but it refused to consider the alternative, which was finally adopted only after World War 2 and dominates modern air power since. The alternative was to replace the big and slow and expensive heavy bombers with the Mosquito as Bomber command's main bomber. The points in favor of this alternative were also clearly presented by group commander Bennett, as a comparison between the Mosquito and the Lancaster, which was the best British heavy bomber:
Mosquito carries to Berlin half the bomb load carried by a Lancaster, but...
Mosquito loss rate is just 1/10 of Lancasters' loss rate
Mosquito costs a third of the cost of a Lancaster
Mosquito has a crew of two, compared to a Lancaster's crew of seven
Mosquito was a proven precision day bomber and the Lancaster was not.
Bennett added that any way you do the math with those data, "It's quite clear that the value of the Mosquito to the war effort is significantly greater than that of any other aircraft in the history of aviation". In the German side, Erhard Milch, the deputy head of the Luftwaffe, said about the Mosquito "I fear that one day the British will start attacking with masses of this aircraft". But in one of the greatest allied mistakes in World War 2, bomber command persisted with its heavy bombers, and less than 1/4 of the Mosquitoes produced were of bomber types
Bomber command used the De Havilland Mosquito to improve the very poor accuracy of the heavy bombers and to reduce their losses, but it refused to consider the alternative, which was finally adopted only after World War 2 and dominates modern air power since. The alternative was to replace the big and slow and expensive heavy bombers with the Mosquito as Bomber command's main bomber. The points in favor of this alternative were also clearly presented by group commander Bennett, as a comparison between the Mosquito and the Lancaster, which was the best British heavy bomber:
Mosquito carries to Berlin half the bomb load carried by a Lancaster, but...
Mosquito loss rate is just 1/10 of Lancasters' loss rate
Mosquito costs a third of the cost of a Lancaster
Mosquito has a crew of two, compared to a Lancaster's crew of seven
Mosquito was a proven precision day bomber and the Lancaster was not.
Bennett added that any way you do the math with those data, "It's quite clear that the value of the Mosquito to the war effort is significantly greater than that of any other aircraft in the history of aviation". In the German side, Erhard Milch, the deputy head of the Luftwaffe, said about the Mosquito "I fear that one day the British will start attacking with masses of this aircraft". But in one of the greatest allied mistakes in World War 2, bomber command persisted with its heavy bombers, and less than 1/4 of the Mosquitoes produced were of bomber types
The owner is Kermit Weeks.
A major collector in Florida and a genuinely nice chap.
The Mossie was used by the Pathfinder Force to lay down accurate incendiaries. These were used as the aiming point for the Lancasters, Stirlings and Halifaxes to get their bombs on target.
A truly amazing aircraft that could (& did!) accomplish so much, whilst being UN-armed.
TOP QUOTE: The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money.
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Things have got to a low ebb when Warbirds flies better kit than the RNZAF.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
A totally incredible machine. As they say, what sounds better than a Merlin engine - 2 Merlins!
I wonder if anyone has written a book on all the special ops these planes were selected for because of their unique characteristics in WWII?
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
Mossies rule the sky! Beautiful machine!
Mosquitos were the F15Es of the day and the Typhoon the A-10s of WW II..
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Gott in Himmel dis iz very disturbing to a non nazi like myself.I vill have nein option but to fire up my Messerschmidt me 109 and vonce again return to ze skies to fight for ze fatherland and rid ze skies of zis machine.it is about time for a re run of zis war as ze last time ze englander Schwein let the tyres down on our planes so we could not take off which is pure cheating !!
Signed Adolf Hitler......nein nein I mean Bruce Smith from ze Naki!!!!
Glynn is working on his own ex Aussie (and RNZAF) T43. The fuselage and wings are done, and lots of small fittings.However, Glynn isn't getting any younger, and he ain't wealthy.....so....one can but hope for this wonderful chap.
Avspecs next Mossie is the T3 that used to be in the Science Museum in London, for Paul Allen in Seattle. It I'll probably retain it's original fuselage, but needs a new wing (the original had one cut off to fit in the museum)
The next to fly I'll probably be the B35 in Vancouver. This is all original, but will probably only fly a few times before being grounded and put into a museum....
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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