A third Mosquito is flying...
 

Great news from New Zealand that Mosquito FB.VI PZ474 flew yesterday after its rebuild by Glyn Powell/Mosquito Aircraft Restorations/Avspecs, flown by Steve Hinton and Warren Denholm. Owned by Rod Lewis, it will be joining KA114 and TV959 in the US. Two more are moving right along through the rebuild process, one of which hopefully will come to the UK.

With an airworthy but currently unflown example in Canada and another Canadian machine being restored to airworthy standards PLUS a Sea Hornet rebuild underway in NZ, Merlin powered DH twins are looking quite healthy. :)

Do we know where PZ474 is going to live?

Texas I believe. KA114 is based in the East (Virginia?), TV959 at Seattle.

Is there ANY chance of one flying in the UK????

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There is also DZ542 on the line at Avpecs which has apparently been acquired by the UK Mosquito Pathfinder Trust - so with luck and some generous benefactors we may have two Mozzies here in years to come.

If I ever won a multi-million payout on the Lottery (which is highly unlikely,since I don't buy a ticket),the first thing,well maybe the second,I would do,is commission a Mosquito re-build to present to the BBMF.

Lucky you.I'm green with envy!

That's a good question, does anybody have any idea how much the successful projects have had to spend?

ex82,

Here's something just to make you greener. It's not one of my best pictures, but those are my knees!

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d486bc00d9.jpg

A memorable day, because afterwards I was asked by one of my friends "Do you want a whizz round the harbour in the Mustang?"

For some reason £5m is in my head but I don't know if that's a figure I've seen reported or just an assumption that it'll be a lot more than a Spitfire IX.

if I win the Euro millions on Friday I'll put some towards one of the UK projects as long as I get a ride! 😊

AD,

Listen to Keith Skilling describe test-flying KA114: "If one of these big fans here stops ... the aircraft grows horns!" Liftoff is 120 mph. takeoff safety speed is 190 mph!

BAe Mosquito crashed at Barton after a carb problem during a wingover. AAIB Report.

Neil Williams had a very hairy moment during a go around at Booker. I have copy of an article he wrote for Pilot; if anyone would like sight of it, please PM me.

There is actually a 4th flying, based in Vancouver, BC. Has only done its test flying. You can find some video on youtube. Now its up for sale

[QUOTE]More big news this week in the Mosquito World.
FLYING MOSQUITO UP FOR SALE. VR796 and original B.35 Mosquito completed restoration in 2014 is being offered for sale. Price not released, but if you have to ask...
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Look for Calgary Mosquito Aircraft Preservation Society on FB.

EGGW.

Interesting. His Spitfire XIV too... about that lottery win...

IIRC, the Pathfinder Trust have since acquired Glyn Powells own FB.40/T.43 project (as its more advanced) rather than continue with DZ542.

Which makes Capt Eric Brown's experiments landing modified Mossies on a carrier deck at 83mph even more astounding.

Item on NZ TV. Apparently it has cost Rod Lewis $10m... that's a little over £5m NZ dollars or £7.5m if US.

Can't link cos it's on Facebook...

Here's the video that treaders refers to:

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...auckland-skies

What is that thing that looks like a bicycle fender aft of each MLG wheel ? I thought it might be a snubber to stop wheel rotation but it appears it doesn't contact the wheel during retraction.

Thanks I42!

Bafanguy, I've always assumed they are simply mudguards to stop debris being blown back into and damaging the tailplane during takeoff.

They are mudguards, to not only reduce damage to rear fuselage and tailplane and to avoid obscuring camera ports in PR aircraft, but also to reduce debris being thrown up into the undercarriage bay.

Thanks. Interesting and likely explanations of the gizmo. This view calls it a "fender". Other views do show the MLG pretty much in line with the tips of the horizontal stab. I don't know where the camera ports were:

https://www.google.com/search?q=dh+m...53LrE-usVfvyM:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9b4179e101.png

From this page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C...nd_Mosquito_PR

Two great nations divided by a common language! I know that a mudguard is what you call a fender (though I can't see why) but what's a "stab", horizontal or otherwise?

I'm sure you really know the answer to that. :O

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....87dea12bd9.jpg

"Stab" on its own usually refers to horizontal stabilizer (tailplane to you and me). "Vertical stab" is what we would call the fin.