Mmmm...
"5 were flown in the film"
I worked on Mosquito Squadron [not the best movie ever made!] and I only ever saw 4 together, both at Bovingdon and West Raynham where we moved to after The Battle of Britain gaggle took over Bovingdon.
Pilots were Taffy Rich, Pat Fillingham [T3], Neil Williams and one other my brain cell can't recall but should. Allen Wheeler was the Aviation Advisor.
At West Raynham we were joined by a Farnborough based early mark Shackleton which housed the movie cameras, one fore and one aft. The movie only ever shows 4 flying Mosquitos and had there been five they would show up somewhere but don't.
There was a lot more low flying footage that probably ended up on the cutting room floor and I remember the Aerial Cameraman Stan Sayer saying the Shackleton flew so low over the Wash/North Norfolk area that it left spray trails from its prop wash.
I do hope that we get a Mosquito flying over its home soil fairly soon......
Last edited by aviate1138; 21st Dec 2012 at 06:58.