Recent content by Mick

Thanks for the YouTube video links. Some of those manoeuvres are fantastic,. Didn't aircraft could even do some of those things. By the way, any idea how I get email notification alerts to new posts? I thought I'd done this in my profile. Mick

Quite, Timpaa. See my replies to mhuxt and Alnwick. I was really trying to understand what the author was describing with his description of the dogfight. It seems it might have been fiction anyway! Mick

Thanks, Alnwick. This is interesting. I think as long as something that happens in the film isn't actually impossible then having a Mossie turning the tables on an Fw190 is quite acceptable. After all a film doesn't have to be an historically accurate account of everything that actually...

Still for the purposes of a screenplay, narrative license always has to come before the fact. I think as long as the film is faithful to the general truth of the story then, in this case, a Mossie shooting down a Fw190 for dramatic effect (since it isn't impossible) is more than acceptable – I...

Thanks, Elmas for your contribution. Mick

Thanks, Edgar I'll look that book up. Mick

Hi Gixxerman What's a cobra move when it's at home? Mick

They were attacked by Fw190's and Me109's from Gallant's J26 'Schlageter' Geschwader at Abbeville base and, according to my research, probably a good few of them were put up against the returning Mosquitos and no more than eight Typhoon escorts (according to two sources). Once source even gives...

Hi everyone, Many thanks for all your contributions. I'm sure many of you will have heard of this operation. Known as 'Jericho', it was an attack on Amiens Jail in February 1944 to free French resistance prisoners. On the way back this incident occurred: 'Spotting a 190 obviously eyeing his...

Hi Thorlifter Thanks for the response. Sorry, I didn't make that clear. Actually, our Mosquito and the rest of its squadron were attacked by a Fw190 Staffel on the way back from a low-level daylight raid over France.

I'm doing some research for a screenplay I'm writing and have a found a description of a real dogfight between a Mosquito FBVI and an Fw190. I can't quite grasp the sequence of events, but essentially, the Mosquito climbs away from the 190 and, somehow, manages to turn the tables on its German...