My father navigated a Mosquito and was invalided out of the RAF with his neck full of fragments of Nazi steel. For a time he was paralysed, with doctors saying his case was inoperable. Eventually he recovered but his neck was never 100%. I believe there was no armour-plating in the the Mosquito except for one strip of metal which ran up the back of the chairs to protect the spine. My father lost his best friend in action, he was also a navigator. Thank you, Jeff Farrow, for this video, it's a very emotional experience. As Richard Smith says below, it takes your breath away. When those two Merlins open up it's time to remember the nightfighters. Thanks again...
THE best warbird in the world, just the sound of those engines brings me up in instant goosebumps and as important as the Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster but so sadly overlooked and underappreciated. Long live the Wooden Wonder ❤️
I just loved every second of this! Why? My mum died last year aged 95. Mum was in the W.R.A.F back in WWII and whilst my uncles did not fly this aircraft! I just love seeing this wonderful, even magical aircraft in the air! Well done to the guys that made this possible as it keeps the memory of those that gave us our freedom today! Thanks mum and the other souls too! sigh
@@British-Dragon-Simulations Thank you kindly! I appreciate your kind words but there are sadly lots of folk that did not return! One of my uncles on his first raid did not come back so I say thank you on his behalf too! I hope you have a nice weekend
My uncle W/O John Leonard MULHALL (pilot) RAAF and F/O James Douglas JONES (nav.) RAF were killed whilst on a anti V-1 patrol in November1944 flying a de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito NF Mk II from 456 Sqn RAAF. He was 21 yo. I was named after him. Some day I hope to sit in one. Thanks for the video.
A great British product, one of many produced just when Britain needed them. Forever thanks to the designers, construction workers and the brave souls who took to the skies during those dark days of war. I salute you all. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. 👍🇬🇧🇦🇺🦘
Many British designed aircraft were indeed built in Canada, the USA etc, they were also built in the UK and shipped overseas in ‘kit’ form to be assembled-often under difficult conditions at the bases they were flown. It is great to see that Canada takes such pride in restoring these Warbirds and putting on many displays and flights.
DCS/ DIGITAL COMBAT SIMULATOR. I recommend using a VR head set, as well as a 20cm/ 40cm flight stick and rudder pedals and throttle levers. A HOTAS/ Hands Off Throttle And Stick, Virpil or Warthog will do.
I have always wanted to be in the cockpit of a Mosquito. I have now done that via this video. My dad flew these with 692 sqd being shot down eight days after D-Day. He has now passed but we watched if together. Many thanks for that thrill.
Thanks to your Dad for his service. While the Spitfire to me is just obscenely beautiful, the mosquito was just a badge of honour for Britain. So fast, so cheap, so effective. If I had the choice, I probably would have chosen the Mossi, i just think it’s cooler to fly. The spit was cooler to look it. Put it like this: the Spit is the beautiful one night girl, the Mossi is the one you marry :-)
You can also do it in DCS/ Digital Combat Simulator. A flight study simulator that's extremely realistic. Made by pilot's for pilot's or learning pilot's. Even the military uses it for training young pilot's in virtual reality.
A great uncle flew these with 107 Sqn. He also flew Bostons on the same Sqn. I have his Irvin jacket and maps. He survived the war but drank a lot. He never got over his experiences. A casualty, so to speak, that isn't recorded. Other aircraft he flew was the Defiant, Oxford, Anson, Beaufort, Mitchell and Beaufighter. His flying jacket is an early pattern but rather well worn!
Brings back old memories of my recip days on C-97s as a flt engineer trainee out of Floyd Bennet field (Brooklyn Naval Air)Now Defunct.I was 23years old.Great people.Thank's
WOW, that cockpit looked like it was brand new. Must have been one hell of a restoration job on that Mosquito. What a thrill it must have been in early 1940's as a late teen or early twentysomething RAF pilot and being told you are being assigned to fly one of these bad boys! Terrifying, yes, knowing you are going to most likely encounter a Luftwaffe ME109 or FW190, but thrilling and exciting none the less. And with the speed to say "BYE BYE Luftwaffe ace trying to catch me right now!"
Wow... Bravo guys! I like how there's no music aside from the mechanical symphony tuning up & playing onboard. Great video. For a while nothing could catch these DeHaviland Mosquitoes, I've heard or read somewhere.
How on earth do you get your head round the fact that this amazing aircraft is primarily made out of wood and glue when you look at how much weight it carries the manoeuvres if can pull mind blowing
Fabulous . Just a taste of the sensory overload of a ww2 aircraft thanks boys from NZ we ( UK )still have not got a flyer, KA 114 is ten years old now ? Ten years well done , way more than the service life of most of the Hatfield built originals through ww2 and into the fifties .thanks fellas
Great video. Thank you so much. My father's brother F/O Aston Karl Aiken from little Jamaica in the West Indies served in WW2 in RAF 107 & 105 Squadrons as navigator with his Canadian pilot F/O William Taylor and the video is from what would have been his navigator's seat position, and what must have been the same sights and sounds make me really appreciate his service. Sadly, they were both killed on 8th August 1944 on a night intruder mission to bomb railroad traffic east of Paris. I was named after him. Thanks again guys. God bless. Keep 'em flying.
The best way to listen and watch this is to put it on full screen and turn up the volume and your sitting in the cockpit with the pilot,if you have a pair of virtual reality headset it's even better the mosquito is the best air frame ever built and little is said about all it's missions during WW11 because the lanc's and spitfires get all the glory which is a shame.
It's in DCS now. I fly it in VR and it's amazing. She so stable and easy to fly compared to the Spitfire. Even though the propellers spin in the same direction. Great stamina from the fuel tanks, agile and them 4 Hispano cannons in the middle! Wow! No plane can survive a direct hit from them guns! The hardest part is being the navigator and trying to work out the huge radio transmitter and receiver in the back! Overwhelmingly complex for me at the moment. Thanks to people like Mark Felton more people know about the missions during WWII. The attack in Berlin during the tenth anniversary of the Third Reich and even the rogue pilot that went to Paris stick out.
Very nice video. thank you for what current testimony. The mosquito resonates for me SPECIFIC way. My mother saw them fly so low to escape the radars in northern France during WW2, that she could see the pilot say hello.
Peter Newton and G McGurk, Cheers Gentleman. My Grand Father is there with them, Group Captain Donald Harvey MacCall, RCAF, he flew "The Mosi" combat in Europe and went on to be a Flight Instructor and finished his duties at 6RD in Trenton, Ontario. RD stands for Repair Depot,.Cheers to you,
To those that want to really see this and many more make the pilgrimage to Pungo, VIrginia. The best flying museum around . Be there for Friday that is the day everything is flying, pilots getting recurrent. That's 3 takeoffs and landings per pilot, per acft, you see that's a lot of photo ops!. This show can be found under the title of "Warbirds over the Beach". Well worth it.
Absolutely superb. Maybe the only aircraft in history which opposing design teams unsuccessfully failed to counter. And greater than the sum of its parts, like The Millennium Falcon, Hood, Ducatis, C47, 2N3055, War horse, the eagles (LOTR), etc. Spirit raisers.
My late father was in the RAF cadets and he was always telling me and my brothers about the fun he had when he went up with pilots, some of whom had flown aircraft during ww2, in chipmunks.......is that a chipmonk I spy through the starboard cockpit window at 13.02 ?.
Supers vidéo cela me fait rappeler des souvenirs de la dernière guerre des Année 42/43 sur voler au dessus de ma tête bravo a tous ces pilotes de l’époque.. ( 1931 CLAUDIUS)
This is great - more people should do helmet cam videos of this iconic aircraft (for as long as they are still flying !). Although I think the Luftwaffe respected the RAF in general, the Mosquito was one plane that did made them green with envy in particular (especially Goering who berated the Luftwaffe for not coming with anything nearly as good in its role). The Australians actually preferred the Bristol Beaufighter (dubbed the 'Whispering Death' by the Japanese) although they had Mosquitos as well.
What was the self-sufficiency ot the Mosquitos ? These aeroplanes have been employed for the tracking of the strategic bombing and especially the dropping of the Christmas Trees (Magnesium bombs) such as Dresden and that requires a long autonomy, and what about the weigth taken on board ?
You can fly this plane virtually in DCS/ Digital Combat Simulator. It's free to play and you get the modern version of the P-51D Mustang all for free! It is a flight study simulator that works with a museum that owns and flies the aircraft. It feels like a pilot's sim because of the aircraft manual reading you need to do after you buy a plane, but it's also great for beginners like me to learn all about the physics that go with flying propeller, tail dragging fighter-bomber's. Pilot's that fly the plane's and helicopter's in real life agree that the flight model's are extremely accurate. I have met a few ex-RAF and USAAF and Navy pilots that fly in this simulation and some even work for the developer's. They also have a lot of modern fighter jets as well, but only ones that are public knowledge. Like the F-16C Block 50 etc. I'm guessing he used the right engine torque to control the sway on take off as he didn't apply right rudder trim until airborne?
Impresionante que un diseño en madera de 1937 superase los 700 km/hora. Lo que se podrá hacer hoy día con madera y las nuevas colas y tecnologías composite. La madera volverá a la construcción aeronáutica. Al menos a las velocidades subsónicas.
roadsweeper1 The Mosquito's seats were slightly offset from one another, probably for a couple of reasons, it makes extra space for the crew, makes entry and egress easier and leaves space for all the buttons the Navigator has to press.
Anybody know what is the big black knob on the glareshield in front of the navigator with the white arrow just to its right? I have never seen that on any other airplane.
I have been playing a game called warthunder, I am now wondering how many years of grinding it would take me to get a machine like that in the game. I think I have fallen in love again, at my old age
The five [inboard] + six [outboard] exhausts on each engine - each with a flat oval opening is the normal shape. It's more aerodynamic & less flame is visible from the cockpit, saving the night-vision of the aircrew. A shrouded system that hid the exhaust flame totally cost up to 14 knots speed. You can easily check the shape of wartime Mosquito exhausts on Google & you'll see the shape on KA114 is normal.
