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Mosquito . The Wooden Wonder.

This post is from Paol Soren in Australia, about his visit to the RAAF museum where they are currently restoring an Australian Mosquito. I know that a lot of the aviation fans who follow my blog will enjoy this, so, thanks a lot, Paol!

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by | December 10, 2017 · 9:18 am

8 responses to “Mosquito . The Wooden Wonder.”

  1. Aviationtrails's avatar Aviationtrails
    December 10, 2017 at 11:35 am

    The mossie is certainly a difficult aircraft to make unless you know what you are doing. If you’ve never been to the DH museum at St. Albans you should go. They have an original mould used to shape the fuselage and were (at my last visit) restoring the original prototype. I believe this is now complete and has moved, but it’s an interesting place if you like the Mossie and DH aircraft in general.

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    • jfwknifton's avatar jfwknifton
      December 10, 2017 at 11:50 am

      Thanks for that. I had an idea that working with wood to produce a Mosquito was quite a difficult thing to do. If you ever read “Vulcan 607” by Rowland White, he says that what must have been very similar processes and problems occurred with the Handley Page Victor, where none of the parts of any of the last few aircraft were interchangeable. In other words, each one was pretty much, hand made and slightly different from all of its siblings. A bit like a Morgan sports car, only slightly bigger!

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  2. Harbin77's avatar Harbin77
    December 10, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    Thank you for shearing this story about the Mosquito. I did not realize it was a wooden plain. I loved reading the story. 🙂 Jim

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  3. Rosaliene Bacchus's avatar Rosaliene Bacchus
    December 11, 2017 at 1:58 am

    It’s a beauty! Like Harbin77, I didn’t know it was made of wood. Man’s creative genius.

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    • jfwknifton's avatar jfwknifton
      December 11, 2017 at 9:09 am

      It certainly was. The tragedy is that that creative genius was employed ultimately to kill and destroy. And an even greater tragedy is that the Mosquito was only ever built because we had no aircraft capable of dealing with a determined enemy, intent on carrying out even greater death and destruction. This cycle may never stop!

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