De Havilland Mosquito | In-Flight & Walk Around | Planes of Fame

COCKPIT VIEW IN FLIGHT! Steve Hinton discusses flying the de Havilland Mosquito, the aircraft history, and restoration.
If you are a WWII aircraft enthusiast or someone who appreciates aviation history and would like to support Planes of Fame Air Museum, you can:
DONATE HERE:
www.paypal.com/donate/?token=...
SHOP THE OFFICIAL PLANES OF FAME STORE HERE:
planesoffame.mybigcommerce.com/

[@bertmacdonald337]

One time, long time ago, I was a technician apprentice at Liverpool Airport for a firm called British Eagle International Airways. In an old, disused hangar there was a Mozzy. It had been donated to the City of Liverpool after the war and had been parked there for at least twenty years, covered in pigeon shit. Tyres were flat because the rubber was perished, hydraulics had mostly leaked over the hangar floor, as the hoses had failed, the amount of crap on the cockpit glass made it impossible to see out of, lots of the wiring loom had cracked exposing bare wires etc etc etc. Someone decided it would make a good project for the apprentices to try and get airworthy again. And so, we set about the task. My part was the oleo legs on the undercarriage .Upon dismantling them, I found they were in almost perfect condition. I remember the first time we cranked the bomb bay doors open and I looked up into the bay. The four longerons looked like house joists! Mosquitos were built largely in furniture factories to offset the shortage of aluminium. I remember the day we hosed all the shite off her and she looked pristine ! Her appearance belied the reality though and we had many months of hard work ahead. Cut short by the policies of the Labour government which killed the charter airline industry and with it, our jobs. Eventually she was made airworthy and took part in the 1969 movie, Mosquito Squadron. Using multi-shot cameras it looks like wave after wave of aircraft took off but in every scene I could see 'our ' Mozzy. By the way, I don`t know who painted the Mosquito in your vid, but the colour scheme is completely off. Your comment regarding Mozzys as being not particularly good fighters does not agree with the many British and Polish pilots who came to see our work and they almost to a man loved the 'chuckabillity' of this airframe. They felt untouchable to a degree they hadn`t felt driving Spitfires or Hurricanes. Most fighter jocks love height, the advantage it brings. Mosquito drivers were the initiators of nap of the earth flying and their speed took away the height advantage. All of the pilots we talked to back then are obviously dead. The fact that the British Government of today acts the way it does, is shameful to their memory .Never have so many been lied to so much by so few, to paraphrase me old mate Winston.

[@rogerkay8603]

Brilliant comment, thanks mate

[@gbentley8176]

My late father would be tickled pink with your comment. He was an instructor then Mosquito recce pilot. He certainly told me many stories about the safe feel of the aircraft and its chuckability even after friendly fire from an american mustang from his squadron; as CO he was not impressed but always said if you take a young lad from the midwest and give him a fighter, accidents will happen. New environment and the thrills and spills of youth.////

[@andrewscoley]

I think the colour scheme is representative of one of the Banff Strike Wing Squadrons on and just after D-Day. The squadrons had different colour spinners to identify each one, the basic paint on upper and lower sides looks right, and the invasion stripes applied on top of the basic paint work. Looks fabulous to me.

[@u187146]

Wonderful, can't believe we don't have a few flying here in the UK.

[@MrDaiseymay]

WEll you'll have to. the Peoples Mosquito is making it's very slow pathe to completion, in Britain. As usual, it's all about money. or lack of it. go to their website , and throw a few quid their way, i did.

[@exploringtheplanetsn]

Yup, if I was a billionaire I’d pay premium money to restore mosquitos or build replicas.

[@angusmcangus7914]

My father flew “Mossies”, the pure bomber version in the Pathfinder Force of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2. He would have loved this. It really was the original “Multi-Rôle Combat Aircraft” and it probably inspired the thinking behind the development of Panavia Tornado in the 1970s.

[@weejimsdad]

This Canadian vet wants you to know that your Dad and his mates had balls of pure brass to do what they did. Huge respect to them all.

[@asdrubale2]

Low bow to your father! My grandfather (Ukrainian) also fought against the Nazis from the Red Army. We, the children and grandchildren of the people who fought against Nazism, must do everything to stop the madness into which the current politicians are pushing the world!

[@chriscarter5720]

Somewhere around the mid-nineties I was on a course at the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE) at RAF Cottesmore. The Tornado was, of course, also known as the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft or MRCA. In the main operations building was a picture of a Mosquito with the caption 'MRCA Mark 1'. The respect was palpable.

[@colehara]

My father was in Lancasters in WW2 and he once got to go up in a Mosquito for a ride along after it had been serviced. He always had a hig smile on his face when he recalled that flight. "That thing was so fast" he would say..

[@jeroenvandenberg5750]

Good for him

[@MrT67]

I've always said the Mosquito looks bloody fast even parked up in a hanger. People who have the knowledge that I do not, state that if an aircraft looks fast, it generally is.

[@thomasdillon7761]

It's very important that iconic aircraft of history be preserved.

[@coldlakealta4043]

nearly 1500 Mosquitoes were built at the De Havilland Canada plant in Downsview, Ontario - just north of Toronto - for shipment across the North Atlantic to the UK. My Mom worked shifts on the line - my very own Rosie the Riveter. The "girls" carried bits of chalk and left little mash notes in the a/c for the crews who would maintain and fly them. I belong to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum and it was very emotional at one of our shows a few years ago when a Mosquito flown by Kermit Weeks joined our Hurricane, Spitfire and Lancaster for a fly-past. A gorgeous a/c - maybe my favourite.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Fantastic.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

ALL those Canadian built Mossies 1500 had the AMERICAN made PACKARD Merlin engines in them !!! As well as the 400 Canadian built Lancasters,a d 1200 Canadian built Hurrycanes !!! FYI> Yes Packard built 37,137 Merlins for the Brits, 3,040 of the England built Mk BIII also ALL had the PACKARD Built merlins, thanks to Lend Lease !!! Packard also made 18,000 for the USAAF. 55,525 in total 1/3 of all merlins built !!!

[@coldlakealta4043]

Of course, who said otherwise? We're talking airframes here - a country with a population at the time of 12M was hardly capable of supporting an engine building program, especially when over 1M were in the armed forces. Love your use of CAPS, though. Have a nice day.@@wilburfinnigan2142

[@michaelbinney9913]

​@@wilburfinnigan2142Thats common practice today, the fact is its a british engine made elsewhere on licence. That aircraft was undoubtedly the best and most versatile of the war. With just over 2% of losses no aircraft comes close to it. The Mustang came very late in the war and would have been a failure without the merlin.

[@nickdanger3802]

@@michaelbinney9913 Where did the RAF"s avgas come from ? "thanks both to pre-war agreement and wartime sales arrangements, American suppliers delivered sufficient quantities of performance-enhancing 100 octane fuel to England in time for use by Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain." page 84 The Burning Blue Addison and Crang Faber and Faber Ltd London WCIB 3DA "Over the whole period from March 1941 to September 1945, the balance in favour of the United States in the mutual aid books24 was in round terms about $21,000 millions. But by the settlement of 1945 Britain was required to pay no more than $650 millions, or £162 millions sterling." page 547 Hyperwar British War Economy

[@flypawels]

Love the De Havilland Mosquito. Nice restoration.

[@okrajoe]

Such a beautiful aircraft. One of my favorites since I built as a model kit as a kid! Hope she flies in 2023.

[@foxlake6750]

My Dad worked at Dehavilland building Mosquito’s, he was a tool and die maker. Later worked at A V Roe building the Avro Arrow.

[@davemacmurchie6982]

Canada's greatest shame - broke my heart when it was cancelled.

[@vintagecornet]

Great video! Is there a modern day pilot with more warbird flight hours (not to mention range of types) than Steve Hinton? I doubt it!

[@soppdrake]

The Mosquito is really, really something and being an old Brit, and a Brit just potty about WWII warbirds, this legendary aircraft has it all: looks, performance, merlins (2!), grace, versatility, stealth along with its use on some spectacular missions only made possible by this veritable beast of an aeroplane and its impressive specs. This vid was a joy to behövde! Well done, you lot. Take care and thank you for making this angel fly.

[@MrDaiseymay]

You've said it all.

[@nickdanger3802]

Metal bits in a Mossie weighed as much as an early Spit, so not stealth.

[@jimb9063]

Plus it used materiel not in short supply and not being used by other aircraft, and a ready made workforce who also were not previously employed making aircraft or munitions either. So good that the powers that be hated it almost to a man of course. Wouldn't want jets and/or Mossies flying about in 1939, would we?

[@JB-yb4wn]

Not kidding about those purring engines! First time I heard those soothing sounds. Must have been a great plane to fly.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Yeah---what might have been eh? unfortunately, we have a long history of short-sighted stupid bugger's, being in positions of decision making.@@jimb9063

[@cal-native]

Great to see these incredible planes coming back to life. Seems to me that not long ago there were none flyable, or maybe only one. Hopefully even more are coming👍❤️

[@MrDaiseymay]

WE all hope there are many more multi-millionaires, who love historic planes

[@jimb9063]

Get that impression too. Seemed to have been a few(vintage warbirds in general) around when I was a kid, then a decade or two with hardly any flying, and last few years more and more restorations.

[@stevena9305]

There was one flying until 1996. Then non at all until Jerry Yagen’s example flew after restoration in 2012.

[@MarsFKA]

Interesting comment about the fuel selectors being behind the pilot. Over the years there has been a lot of speculation about Guy Gibson's crash and its cause. One theory points to Gibson’s inexperience with the Mosquito - he had very few hours on the type before he appointed himself Master Bomber on the night that he was killed. Witnesses on the ground reported hearing an aircraft engine spluttering before a crash and the thought is that Gibson either forgot to change fuel tanks or, reaching behind him in the dark, selected tanks that were already empty. Yes, I am aware of the other theory that Gibson was shot down by a Lancaster gunner.

[@marbleman52]

@MarsFKA...Doesn't this story about the awkward position of the fuel selector switch remind you of John Denver and his fatal crash?

[@MarsFKA]

@@marbleman52 I don't know the details of Denver's crash; only that he died.

[@marbleman52]

@@MarsFKA John had just bought one of Burt Rutan's experimental airplanes and had been told by Burt Rutan about the awkward placement of the fuel selector valve, which was behind the pilot seat. Rutan told Denver that he would get the fuel valve moved to a better location by the time John's next tour was over. But John wanted to fly the plane anyway. Also, John did not get any fuel before taking off, just going with what was in the plane. That same plane design had already been the cause of death of many pilots. John was just off the coast of California when witnesses saw the plane take a sudden nose dive and crash into the ocean. Apparently, John was running out of gas and was trying to reach behind him to reach the valve when...no one knows exactly...he somehow moved the control stick into a nose down position and couldn't recover quick enough. His body was torn to pieces and was decapitated.

[@gregoryrussell9235]

I think there are two new mossies that are on a farm on the south island of New Zealand to .And the owner pasted away to unfortunately plus a lot of aircraft parts from a lot of other planes to .

[@aviationavenue2261]

Awesome, I saw the mosquito during the live demo/hanger talk last year, Steve did an amazing job flying! Hope to see it again in the future, keep up the great work!! 👏👏👏

[@d4vid0110]

She's a beauty!

[@MilitaryTalkGuy]

Granted the spitfire was an important and effective fighter for the UK but there is just something about the mosquito. Such a beautiful plane, and so versatile too! I bet they were a blast to fly.

[@jeff9104]

Great stuff guys, beautiful aircraft !

[@MCW1955]

Started watching Steve on Roaring Glory Warbirds. He’s the greatest!

[@1chish]

Funfact: the Mossie could deliver the same bombload to Berlin as a B-17 but it would be half way back in the Uk before the B-17 got to Berlin. An incredibly versatile aircraft. One version had a huge cannon fitted to sink U Boats. The USAAF had many Mosquitoes for various tasks.

[@richardpeychers4076]

Looking out either side and seeeing those two huge merlins. Wow.

[@SteveS-hc3km]

The next one to fly will be tomorrow (March 29, practice day) at Warbirds over Wanaka (March 30,31) in New Zealand. Discovered in Blenheim, NZ, an ex RNZAF aircraft, it too was restored in NZ and will head to the UK after its first air show in Wanaka

[@agp7073]

Steve, living the dream. I appreciate the unique history you seem to always provide in your videos.

[@kevinhedspeth4303]

Great in flight perspective from inside the cockpit!

[@bobkohl6779]

Thank you Steve Hinton!

[@YARROWS9]

The greatest generation. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇭🇲🇦🇺

[@AlexMaritimer]

My Grandfather flew the Mosquito as a night fighter with RCAF 406 squadron. “ We kill by night”

[@MrDaiseymay]

The Luftwaffe nightfighter's were easymeat for the Mosquito's, especially when they had the latest onboard Radar installed. They flew higher than the enemy, and would pounce from great heights.

[@brianperry]

Thanks for the tour Steve. My uncle, who was a bomber pilot in WW2 made two model RAF airplanes a hawker Typhoon and a Mosquito. My grand parents keep them in a glass front cabinet. When visiting them l would stare longingly at them through the glass...l was never allow to touch them. Although my uncle survived the war he died in 1953. That cabinet was a sort of shrine, two model aircraft and a few photographs of a young man receiving his wings...In Canada... and standing in a doorway wearing his Erwin jacket and sheepskin flying boots...

[@loualiberti4781]

Amazing !!!!

[@rollonsummertime]

Wonderful aircraft.

[@shortribslongbow5312]

Nice video thanks for taking me along. :o)

[@davelewandoski4292]

Thanks for the ride Steve!

[@cinellixa]

Glad to see a new video, you guys have the coolest planes.

[@A14b19]

Also the guys were a lot smaller then . When I was 15 id go to my local army surplus store with my mates and we had trouble finding battle dress jackets to Fit!

[@MrDaiseymay]

THE MAJORITY OF US ,HAVE THAT PROBLEM, AND QWE KNOW WHY---YEAH ?

[@allgood6760]

Legend of a plane... we operated them with our RNZAF ✈️👍🇳🇿

[@jeannietoler8929]

My Dad was with the 416th Night Fighters, Army Air Corp during WWII. They were stationed in England with an RAF base. I wish my Dad was still here. He lived in Riverside, Ca (stationed at March Field, the”Country Club of the Air Force” after the war). He would go over to Chino to check out all the planes. He would have cried to know that they had one so close to home.

[@jimb9063]

Thanks to your father and many others who volunteered to help us out. The Mossie was a great night fighter both in defence and offence when airborne radar became available. My grandparents generation, one of whom tinkered with Merlins throughout WW2 as a Fitter. My children can't quite remember them, and obviously they will all pass from that era. This is sad for two reasons. What they went through should be remembered, and also we should never forget how terrible things can get so we don't let things get to that state again.

[@lorenzodunn3226]

Excellent film footage and sound. Great commentary.

[@MrDaiseymay]

To be honest, we all wished we had seen--heard the take-off. Can't have too much of the Merlins.

[@BDOG-ti2zb]

Rod Lewis has another Avspecs restored Mosquito coming to Texas soon. Steve Hinton did the test flights in New Zealand recently.

[@gregorygaunt9353]

Quite the pretty airplane, Steve. Excellent!

[@johnholmes6897]

What a beautiful plane

[@chrismawby1805]

I was given the book by Rolland White, Mosquito, it’s brilliant book, it tells the history of how the Mosquito came to be and its war time history.

[@MarsFKA]

It's wonderful to hear those engines. At the recent Classic Fighters Omaka air show the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre's Mosquito was towed outside and parked in the World War 2 lineup. Its engines were started and run up several times each day and, each time, the crowds came flocking. I flocked right along with them.

[@MrDaiseymay]

So, they didn't fly ? shame.

[@MarsFKA]

@@MrDaiseymay After more than sixty years in storage, the aircraft was restored only to display condition. A full restoration to flight condition would cost over $10 million. No one in New Zealand can afford that and, anyway, the aircraft is too valuable as it is. Static display with an engine run every now and then is enough.

[@calmingmusic6549]

Beautiful plane !

[@hazelnut49]

This is great. Please do more videos like this of all your monthly Hanger Talks! ❤ Also would love to more than one plane being featured. Can you do a rival plane VS each other or some type of theme like escort, Axis, Allies, RAF, Navy, Army Aircore, German, Japanese, or the evolution of different model like all your Mustangs?

[@jakemurphy9536]

Thank you for the video. This is probably about the closest I shall ever get to watching one live.

[@pauljshields123]

Nice video....one slip of the tongue, the mosquito's first role was reconnaissance

[@daniellastuart3145]

the phot Recon version was the first to go in to operation 1941 then the bomber version and the fighter version and night fighter version

[@l3v1ckUK]

I think it had a reputation of being a good night fighter, but not a good day fighter. Bombing is where it has its finest reputation. The low level precision raids are legendary.

[@MrDaiseymay]

They developed throughout the war, as it became clear, the Mosquito was multi -role. So depending on the armaments, it's performance was varied . Even Spitfires came in many variants, depending on the job it was given. I didn't know the height of combat affected speed.

[@MrT67]

To be fair, the Mossie was designed as a bomber, so the fact that it could dogfight at all is a testament to its innovative design. There is an account of Mosquito Fighters coming out of a particular dogfight with FW190's taking equal losses to the German plane. I'm not accusing you of being negative about the Mossie, but just as an aside I get a bit sick of people comparing it unfavorably to the P38. The P38 was designed as a fighter. The P38 was also a wonderful aircraft, but didn't match the Mosquito in bombing and multi-role functions. So they both obviously had their strengths and weaknesses. But both were outstanding overall and a pain in the ass for the Axis powers. Which at the end of the day was all that mattered.

[@mightymac63]

This was the Mossie that won "Best in Show" at Oshkosh in 2019..when Rod Lewis owned it..Looking forward to seeing either this one of Jerry Yagen's Mossie at the STL Air Show in June

[@sblack48]

Would love to see both in formation

[@MrDaiseymay]

So it has changed ownership ? Any reason why ??

[@remalm3670]

... just an awesome plane, please take care of it ...

[@rodgeyd6728]

Can we have it back please 🙏🇬🇧. Help and support " The Peoples Mosquito " in the UK to rebuild from scratch a true British iron.

[@MrDaiseymay]

I have. People often complain about there being no Mosquitos in Britain, on these Comments. WELL---this is a way to bring the day of take-off, closeser.

[@55Reever]

I've heard that the plywood skin of the aircraft actually survived battle damage better than metal skin. I don't know if that's true or not but it kind of makes sense. Cliff Robertson in "633 Squadron". One of my favorites, and in the movie it looked spacious inside and that's probably because Cliff Robertson's crew member was Angus Lennie, and he was like a midget!.

[@percyprune7548]

The moncoque wing was strong all over and not too dependant on main vital elements which if hit would be devastating in a conventional wing.

[@user-ey3st2qs5u]

Úžasné❤❤❤😊

[@christisgod3354]

She's a beauty.

[@markthibault8579]

What a lovely aircraft. I had the pleasure of seeing Bob Jens' Mosquito a number of years ago in Abbotsford. Impressive machines for sure.

[@rogerpattube]

The Banff Strike Wing livery with invasion stripes is wonderful. Extra Dark Sea Grey matches perfectly with the Sky underside. The wife’s grandfather was shot down and killed in a FB Mk VI exactly like this, in a fjord near Askvoll Norway. 13 Dec 1944. 235sq flying from RAF Banff. Wing Commander Richard Atkinson.

[@jonathanstein1783]

A true member of the "greatest generation", and I think this applies to all who fought in that last global conflict. Especially those who sacrificed everything for their country. May God bless you, all.

[@MrDaiseymay]

WAS HE ON ONE OF THE SECRET RAF MISSIONS TO SWEDEN VIA NORWAY ? THE MOSQUITOS WERE PAINTEDTO LOOK LIKE CIVILIAN PLANES ON A REGULAR FLIGHT TO COLLECT DOWNED AIRCREW, SPECIAL AGENTS, AND SWEDISH BALL BEARINGS IN EXCHANGE FOR GOLD INGOTS. SOME PLANES WERE CHASED AND SHOT AT BY THE LUFTWAFFE.

[@P51]

when Steve talks airplanes--I LISTEN! so enjoyable conversing with him at the air races every year...BTW if you hold the phone sideways you seem to get more video in the picture 🤷‍♂

[@Bisonmsc]

One of them ended up at Torbay airport in St Johns Newfoundland in the 80s. It spent the night in a hanger there, waiting to complete its flight to England where it was appearing in a movie. I got to spend a bunch of time inside. The seating positions for pilots was unusual...offset and high and low. It belonged to the Confederate Air Force then.

[@cheesenoodles8316]

Was able to attend the flight demonstration recently at POF. What a great day, the crowd was as impressive as this great aeroplane.

[@johnleadbetter9914]

Great paint job . Sea camouflage . Remember this flying over here at Southport Airshow great sound as flew low over beach . Unfortunately crashed few years later and no way for crew to survive . Be really impressive if a show could have a flight of three flying ; could be worthwhile me buying a ticket to the US to see/hear .

[@lebaillidessavoies3889]

Well...it didn't really have to be a fighter, it could outpace all of its adversaries of its time....

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

lebaillidessavoies BULL$HIT !!!! Erly mossies with the Merlin 20 single stage supercharger, 5 exhaust pipes coul not top 400 MPH and the LATER with the 60 series 2 stage merlins topped out at 425, most allied fighters were all faster !!! As well as Axix fighters !!! Mossie was said to be the fastest BOMBER !!! Just barely !!!

[@robertthomas3777]

Divine. 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍

[@simonclark29041978]

Such a beautiful aircraft I only wish Tony Asghars Mosquito in the UK could fly as it can taxi perfectly sand is ready to fly

[@10OZDuster]

how long does the wood last on a wood airplane stored indoors like this one? would it last 50 years or more ?

[@erichung8087]

Wait a minute, a HUD. Head up display in a ww2 mosquito ？sbd the instruments all so brand new look！ Wonderful😊

[@kiereluurs1243]

English please.

[@davidmcleod7757]

fantastic restoration I envy your job Steve

[@michaelmckinnon7314]

Last I knew the RAF had a few Mossies (a fighter version, a bomber version, and a recon version) and that there were a few flying in the UK and Europe as well as the ones in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

[@MrDaiseymay]

When--in the early 50's?

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

BS !!! There are as of 2023 only 3 or 4 flying !!! UK has NONE flying !!!! DUUUUHHH!!!!!

[@peteranson4021]

There is one being restored (very slowly) in Australia, but not to flying condition. I think the main reason there are so few around is that the glue available then didn’t last very well, also the reason they were not good in the tropics. All the mosquitoes flying now are basically reproductions.

[@berndm9743]

Why are there only 5 exhaust stacks on each side of the nacelles?? Shouldn't here be 6 on each side of the nacelles given the are V12 engines??

[@TheSpongebob74]

Monstrous fire power people over look that

[@sblack48]

Your avg pilot back in the day was probably 140 lbs max. Plenty of room for them.

[@MrDaiseymay]

good point

[@alanjm1234]

Amazing aircraft. remarkably the bomber variant carried a similar bombload to a B17, with similar range, but much faster and higher, it was extremely difficult for fighters to catch and out of reach of flak. And if one was shot down there would be potentially two crew lost as opposed to 8-10 crew as in the heavy bombers. You'd think that building more Mosquitoes and less heavies could have produced a better outcome at a far lower cost.

[@dickgoodey2528]

Indeed, and there were a few Mosquitos recorded making two flights to Berlin in 24 hours, each with a 4000lb bomb load. Exceptional efficiency..

[@rodgeyd6728]

@@dickgoodey2528 Berlin Express.

[@rodgeyd6728]

Carry a similar payload as the heavies, take of after the heavies, be over the target, bomb it, mark it accurately and be home for " tea " before the heavies had reached the target. Beautiful aircraft.

[@rogerpattube]

The fact they didn’t supports the contention that another of the aims of the strategic bombing campaign was the destruction of the Luftwaffe and attainment of air supremacy over the ETO ahead of the D-Day, invasion. Drawing the Luftwaffe up in defence of their cities and production, destroying them with the flying fortresses, Lancs and USAAF fighters (Reference: Greg’s Airplanes and Automobiles)

[@MrDaiseymay]

AND---often in broad daylight. Daily towards Wars end. @@dickgoodey2528

[@paulkirkland3263]

The guns are impressive but I still prefer the bomber / recon version, with the plexiglass nose and split wind screen.

[@dovidell]

Shame on the Brits for not having an air-worthy Mossie flying at local ( British ) air shows , shame indeed

[@MrDaiseymay]

SEE ABOVE , AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Most Brits are flat @$$ broke due to high taxes and they have no money for expensive restorations !!!

[@dale3852]

Get your info before you make a mistake

[@TheFunkhouser]

That was the same mosquito that was re-birthed in New Zealand.

[@sinisabalentovic9617]

I cant belive that this plane is built out of wood entirely!!! Its amazeing and my fav british plane ever!!!

[@MrDaiseymay]

Well not quite, although the tires are made of oak

[@kiereluurs1243]

The engines tend to burn up too.

[@BLEMAK1]

Great movie with them is 633 squadron

[@anthonywilson4873]

Bomber fighter a good night fighter with radar operator. Tsetse version had a field artillery piece in it with autoloader. Rockets bombs cannons and machine guns. Could carry 2000lbs of internal bombs with modded door it could carry a 4000lb Cookie. A true multi role aircraft. Pilot and Navigator. Two man aircraft. So fast fighters could not catch it until FW190 and that had to get lucky. ME 262 could catch it, but it also caught them when they where landing at night low and slow. If I had to be in a bomber at that time it would be the Mosquito. Very advanced composite construction plywood / balsa / plywood glued together technique still used today but with carbon fibre and foam spacer material. It did everything asked of it, US also used some in Reconnaissance role in European theatre. Very low loss rate for missions carried out.

[@MrDaiseymay]

That about cover's it.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

top speed was less than 400 Mph for early merlin 20 exuipted, 425 for the later 60 series without bombs !!!! most fighters were faster, mossiewas the fasted BOMBER, just barely.....

[@rodgerhecht3623]

Awesome , i have never seen one fly in person. Is the planes of fame doing an air show in the fall? I sure have missed going. Ive seen all but a few of your shows since 77 or so.

[@garryryan3654]

Cool!

[@kiereluurs1243]

'Yeah, cool!'

[@alanjm1234]

It's shameful that there isn't a single flying example in Britain.

[@rogerpattube]

Just appreciate the Yanks coming over and saving your asses again 😂

[@bobkohl6779]

Problem is the flying planes crashed in England.

[@anhondacivic6541]

​@Roger Patterson "for the first time" you guys joined when ww1 was practically ending

[@nickshale6926]

@@rogerpattube Really? Where were you in September 1940 again?

[@emersoncaicedo3146]

@@nickshale6926providing supplies and most importantly 100 octane fuel for the spitfires and hurricanes, and without that fuel they wouldn’t have been competitive against BF-109E’s.

[@ODST_Parker]

Interesting livery she's got, almost like a FAA aircraft, but I don't think this is a Sea Mosquito. Whatever variant it is, the Mosquito is such a beautiful plane. Loved it ever since I first saw it in Secret Weapons Over Normandy. A bit thick, as most twin engine props were back then, but still sleek and stylish.

[@lwallace79]

It's an FB VI

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

@@lwallace79 FB's COULD carry 2 500# bombs, as the 4 cannon occupied the front half of the bomb bay !!!! FCTS !!!

[@lwallace79]

@@wilburfinnigan2142 the FB VI could carry 2-500 lb bombs in the bomb bay and 2 more on wing hardpoints.

[@JB-xu1pm]

In the early 60's there were, I think, 2 at the San Antonio International Airport. They sat there for years. Never knew what happened to them.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Early post war, there were quite a few Mosquito's i heard, in California. They were being sold to South American Countries. The US government stepped in and banned such sales, As a plane that good, could be used to fight wars, that were starting up, in that part of the Americas.

[@ftargr]

missed this one 😒

[@Elwood-tc8tn]

There is an organisation in the UK called The Peoples Mosquito that is funded by donations and in the process of building one from scratch. They have just finished making the moulds for the wooden fuselage. Hopefully we will see one back in our skies soon.

[@sozzle600]

The good thing about British planes is they were used at the beginning of the war not a few years later like the American ones

[@martinbell3175]

My father RAF Fl/Lt Colin Bell DFC flew 50 Pathfinder Light Night Striking Force missions out of Downham Market over Nazi Germany in an unarmed OBOE fitted Canadian built Mark 25 bomber with US Packard Merlin engines. Prior to that he was a US Army Air Corp advanced single engine flying instructor at Napier Field, Dothan AL. Over Berlin in early 1945 he was pursued by a radar equipped German Me 262 'Swallow' turbojet night fighter 100 mph faster and detected/ evaded with radar detection countermeasures together with diving to low altitude. He's still alive at 102 yrs. You can see him in a Lewis Air Legends video filmed at San Antonio with this FB Mosquito aircraft 4 years ago aged 98. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGazaGqMp7egl6M 1:57 2:25

[@MrDaiseymay]

FANTASTIC, WHAT A HERO.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Others also know the Canadian built Mossies used the PACKARD built in AMERICA merlins !!! Good show !!!

[@MrDaiseymay]

FANTASTIC ! I can never get too much info about this incomparable masterpiece.

[@warbirdnut9269]

What has Steve not flown as far as warbirds go? I'd imagine that the list is pretty short.

[@1littlelee]

All mossys are made in NZ because some guy in drury has a mould for the mossy

[@kiereluurs1243]

Mosquitos, restored.

[@johnbridges6867]

WOW!!! The Wooden Wonder, The Mosquito What an Absolute Beautiful restoration, Perfection! And would be far better than when the aircraft first flew. Geoffrey De Havilland A Genus! Splendid aircraft Steve Hinton and Thank you SO so much in sharing your Very very rare Mosquito with the world. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 And have a Wonderful Very Happy Christmas. And a Great new year keeping the Tarmac Active! Happy Landings Always Sir. JB. East Surrey. UK.

[@dale3852]

Who owns this one now.did i see warbirds sold it as the owner died and the sister sold/auctioned everything?

[@moonmullins8227]

I for one will be glad when "Apple" creates an app to allow people to film in portrait yet have it display and play back in landscape. NO human eye views in portrait mode, come on people turn the phone sideways.

[@eugenemurray2940]

Didn't the USAAF fly them too? Would love to see.. A Mossie in USAAF markings P51-D Mustang in RAF Spitfire PR in US Blue Spitfire PR in RAF Blue Flying in formation together! ❤

[@MrDaiseymay]

Yes they did, especially for recconaissnce over Europe in the last months of the War. I read this in a brilliant Book, ''Strange Company'', about the Allied investigation into Bomber crews reports, of UFO lights that followed ALL planes , even in the Pacific War. Known by USAAF crew as ,''FOO FIGHTERS'', a reference to a pre-war Kids comic charactor, of that name. After the war, when Allied chiefs questioned German and Japanese Crew, AND scientists, about that phenomenon, they said they thought the ''UFO's were ALLIED hI-Tec machines.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

USAAF had over 400 recon Mustangs ,and all the merlin versions were faster !!!!!

[@MrT67]

I don't know about the P51, but P47's were definitely flown by the RAF. I know this because an uncle of mine flew Hurricanes and P47's for the RAF. He was a New Zealander, just to mix it up a bit more 😁

[@johntim3491]

Why is it that the 3 most beautiful aircraft from WW2 all sported Merlins?

[@MrDaiseymay]

iF YOU CREATE SOMETHING SLEEK AND AERODYNAMIC, YOU DON'T WASTE THAT EFFORT, FITTING SOMETHING OF LOW POWER

[@fasthracing]

Best plane of WW2

[@55Reever]

I have never got to see a Mosquito fly. I wonder where it is kept in Sacramento.

[@MrAdamhigo]

Our switches are right way up. Yours are the wrong way round

[@kiereluurs1243]

'Yeah, and you drive on the wrong side of the road!'

[@stamfordmeetup]

amazing plane, bigger bombload that a B-17 but could outrun the german fighters.

[@ootpik2440]

Beautiful Aircraft,,, ][ Love them all, their form, the way they move thru the . Air. ][ Love them, but ][ do not relish for one second,,, their Intention !

[@kiereluurs1243]

English please.

[@andreaskrishna4499]

p̲r̲o̲m̲o̲s̲m̲ 😣