De Havilland Mosquito - Flight & Presentation 

i do totally agree with you, this bird was a humble giant in it's time. question , is the A10 warthog his son?

@@robertburkhardt3506 The inspiration

@American Patriot - thank you sir for your kind comments. God bless America. 🇺🇸🇬🇧.

@American Patriot - you’re spot about the Hurricane - the plain but courageous sister who did most of the work. Yes - the Merlin engine in the P51 was superb. Cadillac of the skies!

My half Brother was shot down over the North Sea in August 1940, he spent the war in Stalag Luft 3, made 3 attempts at escaping, nearly got aboard a Ship For Sweden, and was part of the ''long March'' accross Germany in 1945, to freedom. he was awarded the MBE. His younger brother was killed on the last bombing raid of WW2, May 3rd '45.

Another member of a generation far too modest of their achievements

633 Squadron was another favourite Mosquito movie of mine.

"The Purple Plain" Movie from 1954 about operations in Burma in WW2, Not a Rah Rah war movie. More of a survival story.

Mosquito squadron used some of the flight scenes from 633. In 633 squadron they had some with the Perspex nose painted to look like fighter versions. 633 gave George Lucas lots of ideas for the 1st Star Wars film, there Are many scenes that are very similar

You'll mean the Kestrel then!

If it looks right it'll fly right and de Havilland designs proved that

What's better than the sound of a Merlin... Why the sound of TWO Merlins of course.

@@longshot7601 powering that beauty!

@@longshot7601 The sound of four. Vera flys over my house regularly in the summer months.

@@robertpearson8798 I'd bet that something like that NEVER gets old.

@@longshot7601 Never.

Smiths used to make distinguished timepieces for the wrist, the movements of which have found themselves in some current British watch manufacturers timepieces. It is testament to superior engineering skills of Smiths, that they were chosen for ‘War Work’ and that they could adapt to the needs of the war. It is a shame that the original Smiths company no longer exists, but the name appears to have been bought and they are currently building wrist watches again, with a highly reputable field watch model known as ‘Everest’. I understand that they are currently rarer than hens teeth and are subject to limitations in manufacturing. I also believe that Smiths used to build gauges for some of the old British car manufacturers as well as the distinguished clocks which they made. Thank you for this very interesting contribution🙏.

@@JamesAlexander14 My own company did not manufacture wrist watches and we have been in existence in Derby, UK for 6 generations. It can found under the name 'John Smith and Sons, Derby' or 'Smith of Derby' it remains under family ownership and continues to thrive to this day.

I live at the end of the old airfield they were built and flown from.

Need a cleener?

@@JamesAlexander14 Smiths clock's in cars guaranteed to fail 🤗

There will be 2 in due time. There's 2 mosquitos under construction/restoration that are UK owned, and will be UK based. The Peoples Mosquito are restoring RL249 to flight here in the UK, and The Mosquito Pathfinder Trust are restoring an Austrailian Mosquito NZ2308 via AvSpecs in New Zealand, before hopefully bringing it to the UK permently.

@@roadsweeper1 Thanks for the reply mate that's great news to hear I shall be looking out for this Top Man.👍👍👍👍

@@roadsweeper1 Thanks for the info I,m looking forward to seeing them.

The BBMF were offered one in the past but turned it down because it would have been too expensive.

@@xXAlphaGamingHDXx I didn't know that but thanks for the update.👍

I believe all the wood came from Canada. Many "Mossies" were built by De Havilland Canada as well.

The best ever.

To put it into more perspective, the Mosquito could carry one, 4,000 pound bomb which wasn't quite as versatile as far as overall area damage in comparison to the B-17s 4,500 pounds of multiple bombs. The B-17 could and did carry 8,000 pounds of bombs into Germany, (Britannica) or when heavily loaded up to 17,600 pounds, but it couldn't carry that type of load all the way to Berlin which is what this cute little comparison seems to have been originally based on. Given that there were a whole lot of useful targets to bomb in Germany besides Berlin, the B-17 was very often loaded with more than 4,500 pounds of bombs. Or to put it another way, if you rig the contest in favor of the Mosquitos, by putting in one target at a certain range inside of Germany and ignore all the others, it might seem like they could carry almost as big a bomb load as the B-17s all the time, when the reality is, they couldn't and most of the time didn't. The Mosquito is one of the greatest aircraft of WWII, and it had much more versatility in comparison, but it couldn't carry as heavy a bomb load into Germany as the B-17. On another note, Kermit looks very young in this video, I had no idea he'd been doing this sort of thing for so long, kudos!

With a crew of two and was rarely shot down.

@@gordonfrickers5592 Was the fastest thing in the WWII skies for quite a few years which is probably why. Fantastic aircraft.

That would have been part of the de Havilland Canada production programme. You may be interested to know that the Mosquito flying from Jerry Yagen's museum in Virginia is based on one of the Canadian-built Mossies...

excellent

I think even flying it back then would be risky,after all those years the wood is bound to have deteriorated, if you have a look at the landing 11.25 you can see how shaky the horizontal stab is and if that separates in flight you are toast, even when they were operational back in the 40s some were lost through structural failure,I know this because an old guy I used to work with who served in New Guinea told me one buzzed the field at Port Morsbey and as it pulled up it just disintegrate and the parts rained down into the surrounding jungle,I don't think there was any survivors, The old guys name was Bobby Sheils,great bloke he was Scottish and was full of stories like this, he was an old guy back in the late eighty's and has since passed away but he worked like a trooper and was a great motivator, I'm sure his early life experiences made him like that.

@@gogogeedus since Kermit has owned this , it's been stored inside, so sun and weather damage has been minimal. Age on the fabric has taken it toll. Kermit visited it a few years back, details the condition of the fabric. Unlike the Kermits Wiinnie Mae that is being restored, this Mossy has had a fairly easy life. But I'm sure Kermit and the guys will give it a good once over before attempting a flight in her.

@@pat36a I think they maybe able to ex-ray it to check for rot ,they maybe able to vacuum infuse resin to bolster damaged areas without dismantling the structure,it's nice to know Kermit cares enough to keep it hangered.

@@gogogeedus it has been in the Museum at Oshkosh Wisconsin since I believe 9-11 .

@@pat36a that's a long time,time flies!

A fantastic contribution to the allied success.

Me two. I was living near the Spitfire Factory at Castle Bromwich Birmingham. They used to fly over our house, some flown by those brave ladies of the ATA.

I wouldn't mind a trip in the bomb bay

For a Mossie to be airworthy, the wood parts pretty much have to be re-manufactured. I think there are 3 in the US, which were made by a company in New Zealand. One was restored in BC Canada, but not sure of it's status. Yes, the UK needs at least one flying.

Yeah. like they never bombed civilians, schools Hospitals churchs. Near Wars end, Goebbels said it was ok to murder Allied crews who baled out or suvived crashes. A great many were shot or beaten to death. This was hushed up by allied governments, but some Court cases wer so bad, they were published.

Almost as good as 4 on a Lancaster!

@American Patriot I worked on r2000 on the dehavalind Caribou, many years ago. Also worked on 4360 on c124 they were phased out in 1969, although the ang got some to play with on weekends.

@American Patriot that's where I spent 67 to 68 working 458 TAS red tails. I really liked those bou's. Flying on them was a little noisy and bumpy but they did what they were asked to do. We hauled absolutely everything on them.