A sad one from Down Under. NZ buy of Mossies post war.
FB.VI TE 748 on delivery flight crashed for reasons unknown on Sydney Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria
Pilot was WCmdr B R Hoare DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar. Navigator was FO J Colvin of London.
Reading up on Hoare, what an amazing WW2 story of dash and daring. And having survived all that, a ferry flight did what the Germans tried to do for years !
A propellor from this aircraft makes a monument to these two gentlemen at Mornington Island in the Gulf.
Flew into the ground trying to make visual in crap weather or some other problem.? We shall never know.
RIP.
My one and only Mosquito enchantment? was at Exeter 1960 or 61 Two Target Towers tucked in tight as, bored down the runway and split left and right in the pull up. 4 Merlins in full song
what symphony of sound, what aerial grace..Never to be forgotten. never bettered.