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Offline xbrit

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Mosquito pics and video.
« on: October 28, 2015, 01:00:05 PM »
Not sure if anyone else put this up but some really nice pics and video footage of the mossie.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/seen-this-soviet-ekranoplan-aircraft-carrier.html

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Re: Mosquito pics and video.
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2015, 02:55:00 PM »
mossy porn

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Re: Mosquito pics and video.
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2015, 03:19:24 PM »
Is that the stall horn going off around 5:10?  If so, why?
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Re: Mosquito pics and video.
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2015, 06:03:05 PM »
Is that the stall horn going off around 5:10?  If so, why?
No, it is not a stall horn, but I also don't recall what it is.
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Re: Mosquito pics and video.
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2015, 11:10:11 PM »
Not sure if anyone else put this up but some really nice pics and video footage of the mossie.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/seen-this-soviet-ekranoplan-aircraft-carrier.html

Thanks for posting that, hadn't seen the test pilot one before.

The aircraft in the factory pics, HJ728, eventually went to 23 Sqn while the latter were in the Med, amazingly shows up in a later shot after a belly-landing. (First part of the serial is hard to see, but the Operations Record Book has HJ728 showing up on the squadron around this time):



IIRC there's an alarm in the flying Mossie that goes off it it gets below a certain speed without the undercarriage being down, but that's going from memory...
... 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

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Re: Mosquito pics and video.
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2015, 09:31:58 PM »
This was just uploaded to YT:



If any of you recall the old animation by "Tochy", it's amazing how accurate he was...
... 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

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Re: Mosquito pics and video.
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2015, 07:48:19 PM »
Some more Mossie porn,

http://www.ch2a.ca/#!mosquito/c1tsl

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_memories/pm_v2.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000430


   Great link Milo! :aok


  I cant be 100% sure but pic 153 might show my uncle!!!!


  IIRC,I was young but he told me he attached the wings to fuselage,I laughed when he told me they used hand saws doing this!

   There's a pic from downsview that shows most of the workers but it's too far away for me to get a good look.


    Thanks for the link!



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Re: Mosquito pics and video.
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2015, 10:47:55 AM »
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Re: Mosquito pics and video.
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2015, 11:14:48 AM »
Nice links. 
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« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2015, 11:08:51 AM »

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