Dh Mosquito flight getting close, first engine run
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The fantastic restoration of Mosquito KA114 back to flight completes another step with the first engine run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5gNI0FNzc&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5gNI0FNzc&fea...
First flight on Saturday by the looks of things: http://whatson.msn.co.nz/2012/mosquito-launch-day-...
Perhaps I should pop up there and take a look
Perhaps I should pop up there and take a look
uncinqsix said:
First flight on Saturday by the looks of things: http://whatson.msn.co.nz/2012/mosquito-launch-day-...
Perhaps I should pop up there and take a look
You lucky man! get up there and get a PH pic for us all...... Perhaps I should pop up there and take a look
RichB said:
There used to be a Mosquito hangered at Booker about 20 years ago. I wonder where that went?
It was nearer 30 years ago now It was the ex-Strathallen Collection one bought by US collector Kermit Weeks, and it spent a year or so at Booker being prepared for it's ferry flight across the Atlantic to Miami in 1986.
It last flew in about 1992.
Hooli said:
Brilliant news, I just wish I'd ever get to see it fly. I've always thought the Mossie was one of the best looking aircraft ever.
You may.There are strong rumours from those close to the owner to the effect that Jerry wishes to bring it to the UK/Europe for some displays at some point.
Whether this does happens and when is another matter.
aeropilot said:
RichB said:
There used to be a Mosquito hangered at Booker about 20 years ago. I wonder where that went?
It was nearer 30 years ago now It was the ex-Strathallen Collection one bought by US collector Kermit Weeks, and it spent a year or so at Booker being prepared for it's ferry flight across the Atlantic to Miami in 1986. It last flew in about 1992.
- Restored Auchtreader, flown to Booker, Dec. 21, 1984.
- Ferried from Booker, UK to Tamiami, Oct. 1987.
aeropilot said:
You may.
There are strong rumours from those close to the owner to the effect that Jerry wishes to bring it to the UK/Europe for some displays at some point.
Whether this does happens and when is another matter.
It might appear here, it's going to the Fighter Factory in Virginia USA so it'll be closer to the UK than New Zealand to ship across for special events.There are strong rumours from those close to the owner to the effect that Jerry wishes to bring it to the UK/Europe for some displays at some point.
Whether this does happens and when is another matter.
aeropilot said:
RichB said:
There used to be a Mosquito hangered at Booker about 20 years ago. I wonder where that went?
It was nearer 30 years ago now It was the ex-Strathallen Collection one bought by US collector Kermit Weeks, and it spent a year or so at Booker being prepared for it's ferry flight across the Atlantic to Miami in 1986.
It last flew in about 1992.
We don't have any that can be restored to flying condition, they are all already in museums as static examples and we only have 8. We have done it twice, one crashed and one was sold to the USA where it doesn't fly. Canada and Aus/NZ have more unrestored examples around that can be worked on at an early enough restoration stage for completion to flying condition.
Yertis said:
Why can the Kiwis do this, but not us?
Because Glynn Powell invested thousands of hours of his time over 15 years paintakingly building from scratch the moulds required to make the complex shape of the wooden fuselage, as it was the only way he was going to be able to rebuild his own Mosquito project.Avpecs have taken things to the next level by using one of Glynn's new build fuselages and building a wing jig and effectively building from sratch a Mossie for Jerry Yagen's Fighter Factory collection.
The skills set now in NZ built up over the past 20 years means that a scratch build Mossie will only happen from a kit made in NZ.
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