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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #195 on: August 05, 2009, 01:18:17 AM »
Scherf:

 I was trying to "start" something...LOL


 I'd read that,yes they knew there was a problem and the fillet or a fillet would help.

 But,it would have disrupted production and they just couldnt afford that so it was left to the hornet design to prove whether the fillet was "worth it".

 The Mossie drivers were told to be easy on the rudder or this mosquito would bite!

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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #196 on: August 09, 2009, 09:12:24 PM »
In flying the mossie recently I can proudly say I do not flatspin it anymore :)  FLAPS ARE YOUR FREIND!  if you get blow 180 put flaps out or else!

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« Reply #197 on: August 11, 2009, 03:21:43 PM »
In flying the mossie recently I can proudly say I do not flatspin it anymore :)  FLAPS ARE YOUR FREIND!  if you get blow 180 put flaps out or else!



 Could you plz explain why? The mossie flies perfectly well at 180 mph ithout flaps deployed.

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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #198 on: August 11, 2009, 04:16:25 PM »
It flys perfectly fine at 180mph when level, but if your vertical and drop below 180 your in for some dirt yogurt.

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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #199 on: August 11, 2009, 07:56:34 PM »
You must be doing something wrong Belial.  You can come out of a vertical hung as long as it'll go without coming down out of control.
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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #200 on: August 12, 2009, 11:13:22 AM »
Would you mind giving me some mossie training then Moot?  It's my new favorite plane and I would like to be the best I can be in it.

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« Reply #201 on: August 13, 2009, 07:17:05 PM »
Sure, I can show you the basics.  But for the last 5-10% I'll have to direct you to someone who flies it regularly.  Tomorrow (fri. 14th) around 9am would work.
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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #202 on: August 13, 2009, 09:53:53 PM »
I work 7am-3pm sometimes 7pm, I cant make that schedule <S> anyway.

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« Reply #203 on: August 13, 2009, 10:04:05 PM »
I'm fairly free up till sept 1st.  Let me know when you're free and we'll see what works.
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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #204 on: September 22, 2009, 11:10:30 AM »
Long time since anything mossie was posted.
Here are the best Mosquito films from the Films & Screenshots forum, all of them by Mechanic:

Hellmarch & Mosquito:
http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/Hellmarch_V1.wmv
http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/Mosquito_movie.wmv

and two versions (director's cut?) of a short film:
http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/30sec.wmv
http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/30sec2.wmv
Mosquito VI - twice the spitfire, four times the ENY.

Click!>> "So, you want to fly the wooden wonder" - <<click!
the almost incomplete and not entirely inaccurate guide to the AH Mosquito.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOWswdzGQs

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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #205 on: September 22, 2009, 02:05:19 PM »
thanks bozon S!

I had forgotten the 30 seconds ones, they were from krusty's 30second monthly comp from a long time ago. Some guys made some really cool 30 second clips for it. Re-downloading them now :D  thanks again.
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« Reply #206 on: September 29, 2009, 10:29:54 PM »
Sorry it's been a while since I spammed the thread with assorted Mossie pics.

Couple interesting ones here, both with the ejector exhausts.

This is one of the RAAF's No.1 (Attack) Squadron's Mossies, taken out in the Far East around March or April 1945. There's some debate over where the pic was taken, either Labuan or, interestingly, Clark Field in the Philippines, where the aircraft seems to have been dispatched for comparative trials. No, I've not found any trace of the actual trials themselves. One of the details which supports the Clark Field theory is that feathered port propellor - the aircraft suffered an engine failure while up there.

This one started life as HR336, built in the U.K. and then transferred out to Australia.



This next one was taken in Patricia Bay, on Canada's west coast, (I believe it's now Victoria airport) where some Canadian-built fighter-bomber Mossies (such as KA133, pictured here) were retained to combat the threat of Japanese fire balloons. There were a number of scrambles, but no shoot-downs so far as I know. Apparently the nose marking is in red, according to Ian Thirsk's book.



I believe Bob Jen's B.35 restoration project is now, coincidentally, out in Pat Bay itself, as part of the program to return it to the air.
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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #207 on: September 29, 2009, 10:50:59 PM »
 Hmmmm nice aircraft pron!!

 Would love to see a colour pic of that RCAF bird. :aok


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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #208 on: September 29, 2009, 11:32:33 PM »
Nice Mossie pictures.  I always like the pictures with the thicker props, like paddle blades.
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Re: mosquito fans
« Reply #209 on: September 30, 2009, 05:35:31 AM »
Apparently the thicker props were better with the higher-power engines, with the needle prop blades responding more quickly to throttle changes.

That's how I remember it anyway, but caveat emptor, I am not trained in these engineering thingies.
... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB