Mossie pics

[Crimea_River]

I agree. The production line pic with the painted wings awaiting assembly to the fuselages shows that the clean paint finish that we model makers often strive for often do not reflect reality. Note the demarcation line between the green and grey on the second wing from the bottom due, presumably, to the thicker paint applied in these areas as the painter carefully followed a prescribed pattern before filling in the areas in between. I get the exact same effect when freehanding my camo but always try to hide it. I've seen the phenomenon in several other photos.

Terry, I agree with your response to Stug. Thanks for trying to keep us all straight.

 

[Jarda Rankl]

So guys, it is a beautiful Mosquito plane? I will add more pictures.

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice collection. I like the overhead shot of the PR version. Interesting how the flaps and elevators stand out.

 

[Airframes]

Great pics, especially the Charles Brown images. I spent some time looking at the PR version too, trying to work out if it was real, a 'photoshopped' model, or CG! against a real sky background.
Whatever it is, it's a beaut shot.

 

[nuuumannn]

Yes, some lovely pictures all right; that top image of ML963 has been used in almost every book and photo collection of the Mossie - its looking a bit worn!

My scanner's out of action, so I can't put any photos I have taken on yet, so here's KA114 on its Public debut.

 

[Airframes]

Nice one Grant!
Like you, I'm having a bit of a fight with a scanner - but a transparency scanner in this case. I've been scanning those 35mm transparencies of RR299 in deep service, or at least those I've found so far. But I need to spend more time to obtain the optimum exposure (it's only a cheap, desk-top transparency scanner!), so I'll get them done and posted when I have more time.
Meanwhile, here's a few of my abstract shots of some survivors in the UK, including Tony Agar's NFII, with engines in, and a month later, during strip-down ready when preparing engine runs.

 

[nuuumannn]

Very neat Terry, I have some of TA719 at DX before they candy striped her and hung her from the roof.

 

[Wayne Little]

awesome Terry!

 

[Glider]

If I can add one. You can just see how big the 4,000lb is for such a small plane

 

[Wurger]

 

[nuuumannn]

Nice pics, Glider; B.35 TA634 at the Mosquito Aircraft Museum (De Havilland Heritage Centre).

 

[Airframes]

Grant, post those pics of TA719. I've been looking for the ones of her when she was in camouflage. I caught her one day when the hangar doors were open, with her nose peeking outside, but blowed if I know where the trannies have gone!

 

[Catch22]

I didn't realize you kept track of trannies Terry.

Great pics guys. I unfortunately have lost the photos I took of the one in Ottawa, and have to find pics of the one here in town.

 

[Airframes]

Ah - 'trannies' as in 35 mm transparencies - not the other type, which can be very convincing, as a friend found out!!

 

[Catch22]

I knew, but I couldn't resist.

 

[nuuumannn]

On the subject, slightly, I remember my wife (then just my girlfriend) got some free passes to go on the London Eye (a bluddy great ferris wheel in the centre of London that British Airways funded and retired the Concorde to do so) and so we went and waited in the queue to get in our pod when we noticed a cross dresser in the queue ahead of us. You could tell 'she' was obviously a bloke, but we couldn't keep a straight face about it and wished soooo much that 'she' got into our pod for laughs! I noticed that about England, there were heaps of cross dressers and they were completely unashamed about it, no matter how odd they looked in public.

 

[nuuumannn]

Here are a few of Mosquito T.43 NZ2305 at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland. The aircrft is a composite of a couple of different aircraft, including an Australian example, hence the RAAF roundel on its side.

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Grant. I've often wondered what would happen if that bl**dy big eyesore of a wheel in London, came off its stand!

 

[stug3]

Mosquito B Mark IV Series 1, W4072, on the ground at the De Havilland Aircraft Company's aerodrome at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. W4072 served with No. 105 Squadron RAF as 'GB-D and flew the first Mosquito bombing raid to Germany on 31 May 1942.

Mosquito B Mark IV Series 2, DZ313, in flight shortly before delivery to No. 105 Squadron RAF at Horsham St Faith, Norfolk

Daylight raid by 20 Mosquito B Mark IVs of Nos. 105 and 139 Squadrons RAF on the German naval stores depot and marshalling yard near Rennes, France. A Mosquito flies over the target area at low-level as bombs burst on the store sheds below.

Wing Commander H I Edwards VC (left), leader of the Mosquito B Mark IVs of Nos. 105 and 139 Squadrons RAF on the raid, and his navigator before taking off from Marham, Norfolk to take part in Operation OYSTER, the daylight attack on the Philips radio and valve works at Eindhoven, Holland, Dec 6 1942.

Ground crews at Marham, Norfolk prepare Mosquito B Mark IV, DK336, of No. 105 Squadron RAF for the raid.

Mosquito B Mark IV of No. 105 Squadron RAF taking off for Eindhoven from Marham, Norfolk.

Mosquito B Mark IV Series 2, DK338, in flight after completion. DK338 served with No. 105 Squadron RAF as 'GB-O', and took part in the successful low-level raid on the Phillips radio factory at Eindhoven, Holland.

DK338 banking away from the camera to show the camera ports in the forward section.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Great pics!