Sea Mosquito
I was particularly interested in the photo of the Sea Mosquito with one wing folded.
One of my early CO's in the FAA was in the initial, and only, Sea Mosquito squadron. They were working up on the aircraft and were nearing the time to embark on the carrier. His story was that the aircraft had done initial deck-landing trials successfully, using a non-folding aircraft, and little models of the aircraft had been pushed around a model of the deck and hangar to confirm that this (for the FAA) large aircraft could be manoeuvered successfully around the ship. However, one day someone arrived at the squadron and told them the deal was off; the aircraft wasn't going to go to sea.
What had happened, he said, was that although the aircraft was measured as being narrow enough to fit down the lift, no-one had taken into account the fact that the propellor tips stuck out further than the stub wings. However one turned the props, there was no way it would fit. Hence, no front-line Sea Mosquito squadrons.