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Offline xNOVAx

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Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« on: September 27, 2012, 12:11:07 PM »
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3892030024714.2149564.1397915882&type=1



The worlds only flying mosquito had it's first flight yesterday in New Zealand. Awesome!  :rock
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2012, 12:12:32 PM »
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2012, 12:34:46 PM »
Darn good to see the best looking airplane ever built back in the air.
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2012, 01:04:30 PM »
It looks very realistic :old:
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2012, 01:25:58 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on September 27, 2012, 12:34:46 PM
Darn good to see the best looking airplane ever built back in the air.

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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2012, 06:34:06 PM »
Beautiful!
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2012, 06:35:54 PM »
Quote from: zack1234 on September 27, 2012, 01:04:30 PM
It looks very realistic :old:

Is it not real ?
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2012, 09:13:53 PM »
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2012, 09:15:23 PM »
My favorite aircraft of all time. Simply awesome!
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2012, 12:28:09 AM »
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2012, 07:50:53 PM »
I wonder how hard it was for the pilot to not go zooming around just offshore 'strafing' boats?
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Offline zack1234

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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2012, 04:46:07 AM »
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2012, 05:10:53 AM »
Quote from: xNOVAx on September 27, 2012, 12:11:07 PM
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3892030024714.2149564.1397915882&type=1

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The worlds only flying mosquito had it's first flight yesterday in New Zealand. Awesome!  :rock

Are they going to make flight trials to give fresh modeling data?  :)
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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2012, 11:16:50 AM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on September 30, 2012, 05:10:53 AM
Are they going to make flight trials to give fresh modeling data?  :)
Greedy!  :lol

The Mossie we've got is pretty dang good.  Also, I don't think anybody likes to run those old engines at WEP.
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Offline SPKmes

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Re: Kiwi Mosquito's First Flight
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2012, 05:25:40 PM »
Good ole squaddie skewer went out to ardmore to watch this on Saturday.... there was the mossie and a spit14 buzzing about ...not sure if he got any pics...will have to ask him
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