Tony Agar's Mosquito HJ711 Engine run and taxi 

@@williamwoods8022 I love aircraft restorations, but what you say has to be looked at to. The stuff that went on behind the scenes. Some people n charge of countries need to be smacked around, unfortunately the common people pay the price.

William Woods oh and Hitler , Mussolini and Hirohito didn't' want to dominate the world I suppose? Prat

Daniel Lane that's as maybe but Germany invaded Poland and had been told by us that if they were to do that then war would ensue. So they brought it upon themselves. And Germany started the first lot as well. As for the Russians, Germany invaded them too and caused all sorts of atrocities, after they fell back, then the Russians payed them back in spades, all deserved as far as I'm concerned.

Wow! I’ve never seen posts go so off topic so quickly. What have these posts got to do with this video?

Music by Rolls Royce?

Cheers Daniel

Thank you Diesel

As much as I like it, it is anything but sexy

Cheers mate I watch Plane savers too

Never forgotten

A wonderful airplane. It was faster than any fighter of it's day-over 400mph. It would take a few years for the Germans to equal it's speed. One of the great aircraft of WWII

Should have made it air worthy

It's one of the best known aeroplanes of WW2.

Excellent moi!!💪✈️💫

It’s not a plane it’s an AEROPLANE!!!

I will pass that on mate.

Re: running at 1200+ initially...the Rolls Royce TSD292 manual states that once oil pressure has risen, the engine can be taken to 1200-1500rpm for warming up. The absence of props clear is due to the crew having an engineer on the ground to whom the pilot signals for clearance to start each engine. Calls for switches off from the crew etc. were made but are just inaudible to the camera which was positioned quite a distance from the aeroplane.

Thank you Matt

cheers Humpty Dumpty

Cheers The Raptor, thanks for watching

cheers john g

Glad you enjoyed it! Richard

Cheers Andy

lol

Thanks for watching David.

Cheers Josh

Hi John Thank you for your comments.

Great day , Stony RC

I watch Plane savers, cheers stephen

cheers 100

Thanks Neil

It won't. I spoke to someone at lahc, and several other people over the years, and when scans are done to determine whether there is any deep corrosion, it cannot be determined because of the density of the wood.

Well done to your Dad thank you. Nice one Douglas keep building, when you have finished in 2097 pop over and help us, Good luck Nev.

@@nevillewheeldon1693 I'd do whatever it takes to help AND protect ENGLAND !!!

@@douglasstreet7304 👍👍

Thank for watch and your comments.

Sorry Chris this one will not fly. Thanks your comments and watching..

@@nevillewheeldon1693 why won't it be possible to fly

I understand the US has two flying examples of the Mosquito now. I saw one at Virginia Beach air museum. Awesome if only people understood it advanced composite construction, the strength was in the skin

Thanks for watching Joe good comment

It's the same on the Lanc. It is possible to prime and then jump onboard the aeroplane to start it but in the period there'd be plenty of people about to prime from the ground.

@@BradleyWinder96 Thank you, i wasn't aware that the lanc is the same. I suppose it makes more sense on the Lancaster because it is a larger bomber and wouldn't be operating without a number of crew, both onboard and on the ground? For a long time I assumed there would be a primer (or two) in the Mosquito cockpit as on single engine jobs, the Mosquito being technically a single operator aircraft (right seat is essentially a passenger seat for Nav). A few years ago, my friend and I carried out a (fully MOD licensed) dig on a Mosquito that crashed in 1944. A Brass Ki-Gass primer was one of the many items i recovered and i was suprised at the time to learn that it had not come from the cockpit. I suppose it saved on weight and copper pipe, less places for leaks or combat damage to the pipe? And you are right that there would almost always be somebody on the ground to pump them. I am still one of the few people who can claim to have their own Mosquito hidden in a barn, though what remains is twisted, corroded, can be fitted into a few large crates and to the untrained eye, easily mistaken for a pile of crusty scrap! I like to watch the amazing progress that Tony has made and dream, perhaps one day? . . . a man can dream can't he!

Hi David night fighter only,no room for bombs, thanks for watching.

Its nose shows its a night fighter, with the radar antenna.

@@doncooper6801 I guess they would leave the bomb bays so they could service the 20mm cannons. Some of the radar domes would start to come apart a high speeds. One mosquito rebuilt in Victoria, BC, Canada. Apart from night fighting, I never heard of one in combat with, say, a Bf.109......strictly a FAST machine......a bitch if a fanstop with gear still down....unable to use full power at low speed, the hydraulics slow on only one engine. What a beautiful aeroplane!

Hi Ken I was about to check the video see if I could see that Chinese bloke (LOL), you are right about the exhaust, there's also shrouds to fit on top of the these exhaust pipes.

likewise, 299 used to fly over my house, a unique noise it made, could hear it long before I saw it. Sadly I saw some of it's wreckage after it's crash

Unfortunately it will not fly. The CAA will not give it an airworthiness certificate, though it will have one just for taxiing. Better that, than being a static display.

@@stratac30 Can I ask why the CAA will not issue an airworthiness certificate? I am sure there is more car and attention put into the Mossie than many others fit to fly. The UK should have always maintained ONE Mossie for posterity to remind our kids just what was achieved in our most perilous time.

I agree with your comments. However the CAA's regulations on historic planes are very tight. Your looking at a plane that is 70 years old and made of wood. The Lancaster is made of metal and there is corrosion, hence a very long and thorough restoration, as the plane can be totally stripped down to its component parts, corrosion cut out and replaced with new. The Mosquito is made of balsa wood and then has layers of thin laminated covering glued to the wood fuselage and wings, and after this period of time some delamination would have taken place, with the plane standing out in all weathers in its earlier years. So the same type of restoration cannot be carried out. As the fuselage and wings are two component parts, the only way of restoration would be to scrap the fuselage and the wings and replace with new! Hence The People's Mosquito project which is being built from a new mould with 21st century techniques and being constructed to CAA regulations and will be allowed to fly.Please bear in mind there is no original Mosquito flying in the UK, they are all museum pieces. So Tony Agar's Mosquito which is made up of original parts and certified to taxi is a big plus.

@@stratac30 Balsa wood? That's what I made my flying model planes with when I was a kid. I've heard the Mosquitos used Sitka Spruce wood for main spars....and these were sourced from Haida Gwaii (formerly The Queen Charlotte Islands) off of West coast of British Columbia Canada.

An American business owner who loves his historical WW2 aircraft has a registered fully restored and rebuilt Mosquito in full flying order ,and it's flown, it took 8 year's to fully restore and rebuild it to flying condition , fully certified to fly but it had to be better than the day it came of the production line , the attention given to this one would be exactly the same, but yes having it certified for taxiing is a great achievement

Horses for courses. Spit was a short range interceptor that turned out to be very versatile. Mossie was built as a fast bomber but turned out to be good fighter as well.

@@davidelliott5843 I agree but I didn't mean their role but the looks ;-)

Thank you for your comments The Philpott,

Sorry Lars this Mosquito is Engine and taxi run only,but thanks for watching

This one isn't being restored to airworthiness.

As an addendum; The BBMF should have an airworthy Mosquito.

cheers John

James Spingola yes screaming out of control as it goes down in flames!!

Sorry Arran this one will not fly, Thanks for watching

Did you see the Arsenal and Watford footballer's training??? The museum you went too is next door to there training ground!!

The ground crews did a good job keeping these Lancaster in the air, well done to your Dad ,Thanks for watching Philip