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Offline Greebo

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138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« on: March 15, 2014, 03:31:26 PM »
Thanks to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this aircraft.

This silver doped Mosquito Mk VI was the mount of Group Captain Leslie Bower, C.O. of 138 Wing of the RAF's 2nd Tactical Air Force. While painting Mosquitoes silver was common in the SEAC theater as a way to avoid heat damage to the airframe it was not normal practice in the European theater during WW2. This aircraft was used on operations at least twice in early 1945. It carried the "SM" code of 305 Polish Squadron, whose ground crews serviced it.







Offline Dragon Tamer

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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2014, 04:44:39 PM »
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Offline bacon8tr

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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2014, 04:49:58 PM »
Sweet skin  :aok

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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2014, 06:09:13 PM »
Beautiful  :cheers:
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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2014, 07:47:16 PM »
Always nice to see more Mossie skins.   :aok
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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2014, 12:06:02 AM »
 :aok

I think you missed the X on the nose?

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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2014, 03:18:58 AM »
Thamks guys, glad you like it. Thanks Lyric1, I'll add the nose "X".


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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2014, 09:46:22 AM »
Cool.  :aok
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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2014, 12:57:07 PM »
Niiiiice.   :aok  Always good to see new Mossi skins.   :rock
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Re: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2014, 09:55:23 PM »
Gorgeous!
... 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: 138 Wing Mosquito Mk VI
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2014, 04:45:57 AM »
 :salute great work sir
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