flyboy2
Carel Birkby in his book Dancing the Skies suggests that....some administrative genius decided that they (the SAAF Mossies) were not really suitable for aerial photographic survey and mapping and thought C-47 Dakotas would do better. Their death sentence followed an unnecessary tragedy. This was the death of Colonel Laurie Wilmot, one of the toughest and most relentless of fighter pilots to emerge in the campaigns in East Africa, the Western Desert and Italy..........Back in Pretoria in peacetime he felt the urge one day to take up a Mosquito and feel how it flew. For all his experience he did not know the technique for pulling a Mosquito out of a steep dive.....'
Here's some more on your lovely bird
cheers
atb
www.mossie.org/LR480.htm