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There is a strip next to the museum at salisbury hall, it is an unlicensed microlight strip last i heard....... the only plane i've seen land there was Denny Dobson's pitts.... best call salisbury hall (museum) to see what the situation is as they know who runs the strip.. hope this helps.
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mossie cf-hml is alive and well in vancouver canada, hml is an ex-spartan aircraft currently under restoration by owner bob jens. the aircraft is complete and is being restored to flying condition, mr jens is sparing little expense as i have witnessed first hand the level of restoration. have some pictures of the mossie next to mr jens immaculate griffon spit, available if anyone is interested.
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How about the original pilots notes? Haven't yet found out how to project onto string, but happy to email.
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I have one or two photos in the attic of Mossies at Bovingdon after filming "Mosquito Squadron". I always had a deep affection for the aircraft, as of course "633" was also filmed in the area, and I used to see them flying around regularly.
By a strange quirk, the air display at which the Mossie crashed was organised by myself, and I was on the Tower balcony alongside the commentator when it happened. A terrible day that I'll never forget.... time seemed to stand still as she span in. Put me off flying for a few years after that...
By a strange quirk, the air display at which the Mossie crashed was organised by myself, and I was on the Tower balcony alongside the commentator when it happened. A terrible day that I'll never forget.... time seemed to stand still as she span in. Put me off flying for a few years after that...
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Superb article about flying the Mossie, by David Ogilvy in this month's "Aeroplane" Excellent pics in B&W and reminiscing about flying her on one engine....apparently not for the faint hearted. I think the remaining engine just carried you to the crash site a bit quicker than none.!!
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Taildragger,
While yet to read David's article, I cannot disagree strongly enough with your conclusion on engine-out flight.
I was privileged to read through my old nav instructor's logbooks [his son had just dissuaded hiim from throwing them out!!], kept during WWII when he was a Coastal Command navigator on Beaufighters and Mosquito's. I was amazed that almost 1 in 3 flights resulted in coming home on one engine. This was over a full tour plus, so they can't have been that bad at asymmetric performance.
Indeed, the Mossie's were causing so much strife along the North Sea coast, that if a CC Mossie was downed, the German pilot got double points towards an Iron Cross. Having lost an engine to a JU88, his pilot dived away only flattening out at wave height and hi-tailed it home all the way from Denmark. The bloke was a big Canadian and Alan surmised that someone of lesser strength would have been unable to recover from the dive.
If you allude to engine failure after takeoff, that's another matter; there was a large dead-zone where the only answer was to pull off the live engine and land straight ahead!
G'day
While yet to read David's article, I cannot disagree strongly enough with your conclusion on engine-out flight.
I was privileged to read through my old nav instructor's logbooks [his son had just dissuaded hiim from throwing them out!!], kept during WWII when he was a Coastal Command navigator on Beaufighters and Mosquito's. I was amazed that almost 1 in 3 flights resulted in coming home on one engine. This was over a full tour plus, so they can't have been that bad at asymmetric performance.
Indeed, the Mossie's were causing so much strife along the North Sea coast, that if a CC Mossie was downed, the German pilot got double points towards an Iron Cross. Having lost an engine to a JU88, his pilot dived away only flattening out at wave height and hi-tailed it home all the way from Denmark. The bloke was a big Canadian and Alan surmised that someone of lesser strength would have been unable to recover from the dive.
If you allude to engine failure after takeoff, that's another matter; there was a large dead-zone where the only answer was to pull off the live engine and land straight ahead!
G'day
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Back to the subject of delaminating plywood, I seem to remember reading somewhere that Mossies sent out to the far east suffered delamination of the ply due to humidity. There was also an article about changing the glue type in production as the original was attractive to certain oriental insects which then fed on the tail section and rear fuselage.
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Appologies if this has been posted before;
http://www.mossie.org/
http://www.mossie.org/
