Mosquito RS700 Restoration (1 Viewer)

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Indeed it is. The work we are doing on the fuselage is actually to repair damage that, according to the repair manual, would actually warrant the aircraft being removed from service. A we have chosen a true restoration, this aircraft will never fly.
 
Good to hear. Although it's always nice to see a Mossie fly, having earth bound survivors restored to original condition helps preserve them as they were, which is just as important in the scheme of things.
 
Posted on our Facebook page, a nice colour detail of our bird CF-HMS (RAF serial RS700) taken at Burnaston in July 1955 prior to its ferry flight to Canada. RS700 was the first B,35 to be converted to a PR.35, hence the colour. We still have a scrap of fabric on the fuselage showing this colour under the Spartan silver.

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Taken last week, essentially a "dry fit" of the cockpit floor and rudder box. The fit-up was necessary to rebuild or tweak some original parts around the crew hatch to ensure proper fit. The rudder box is mostly new as the original plywood was in pretty bad shape. However, we did re-use original parts where we could, sen in green.

The floor comes in 3 pieces. It will be spliced together once the inaccessible spaces and floor underside are painted and the various sub-floor pneumatic and hydraulic lines are reintroduced. The seal between the floor and cockpit walls consists of several pieces of approx 2mm plywood screwed on to fill the gap, followed by some doped fabric.

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Bagging and tagging Terry. Plus we have crated the larger items with pictures of contents. Smaller items are in wooden boxes with a picture of the contents on the outside. We are creating an electronic database of all the parts and where they are stored as well for added additional reference.
 

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