I first saw a Mosquito at the Farnborough Airshow in about 1961. I was a very small boy back then and the show was far less formal than in later years. A Mossie, a Spitfire and a Hurricane all beat up the place at very low level. A never to be forgotten experience. That, and the Lightning, with its burners lit and climbing vertically like a rocket from takeoff, sparked my enduring ambitions of becoming a pilot. I eventually did and have spent all my adult life, from the age of twenty, earning a living from it.
So thank you, Mr de Havilland!