I noticed a couple of things with the Mossie 16 and 2048 textures, 1) the crew graphics are far better than they used to be and 2) getting close to the Mossie 16 doesn't cause the crew and simple cockpit texture on a flat polygon to disappear. What I take from this is that the crew graphics have been updated and the 2048 texture resolution is only intended to be seen on one aircraft at a time, yours, and thus the mechanic to show the full detail cockpit when you got close is gone.
Launching on top of older aircraft gets rid of the crew and thus you never see inside the crew polygons, just inside the aircraft polygons. The Mossie 16 changes that.
