Name the Plane ?

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  1. HarryS

    HarryS Eternally Optimistic Gardener

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    Not a particular difficult one . I found this while browsing and thought it was a stunningly atmospsheric photo of this iconic plane........


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    It is of course - A Mosquito PR.41 restored to display standard at the Australian War Memorial.
    Mosquito PR Mk 41 : Two-seat photo-survey version for the RAAF. A total of 17 were built in Australia.
    I don't think that there are any Mossys still flying are there ?
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      Armandii will know, he knows everything about Planes, Capney too:dbgrtmb:
       
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      The wooden wonder. As a lad I used to watch one of these take off on a weather flight every day from the airfield at Rochester in Kent.
      Wonderful.
      I`m not aware of any flight fit Mossies anywhere. But I could be wrong. I often am.
       
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      I think the last flying mosquito crashed a few years ago killing the crew, don't think there are any air worthy ones left now. Being made of wood they don't survive well.
       
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      Being still in my 30's one might expect me to have a preference for modern planes, but no, I just love the sound of the engines on those old WWII planes, Spitfires, Lancasters, Mosquitos etc... they just send shivers up my spine, awesome.

      I remember a Lancaster flying "very" low over the fishing lake I used to manage a few years ago; it looked like it was only just clearing the trees!!, the sound though was amazing, those thunderous engines - wow, what a full squadron must have sounded like?, I can't imagine.....:thumb:
       
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        I did watch the part making of the film 633 Squadron while at RAF Wattisham as they filmed some of it there. So we had at least 3 Mosquitoes and two trainer versions of the Me 109 landing and flying in mock fights for a while. I believe one of the Me 109 trainers crashed after completion of the film. The "Mossie", a truly great aircraft and I take my beret off to the guys who flew them. :D
         
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          Great video find Bilbo :dbgrtmb: Loved it !
           
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          It's amazing when you realise that some of the photo recon Mosquitoes weren't armed at all, doing sorties over France and only having as their speed as a defence to outrun enemy aircraft.:thumbsup: That's what you call faith in your aircraft!!:D:yess:
           
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          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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          I took this picture back in 1984 at Mildenhall.

          As far as I know it was the last one still flying then, and as John said I think it crashed a few years later.
          Shame as it was the one and only time I saw a mossie in flight.

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            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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            I'm not sure if this is relavant but I seem to remember the props spun in opposite directions.
            Whether that is normal or not in multi-engined planes, I dont know.

            I know the old Shackleton, ( another great old British marvel), had the contra rotating props on each engine.

            Something to do with engine torque I think.
             
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            In the modelling club at R.A.F. Halton, there were loads of plywood coiled preformed into cylindrical sections for repairs to the mossie skin. Cheers, Tony.
             
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