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 DubbyFan
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| posted on September 30th, 2012 at 06:51 AM |
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Mosquito Flies
Completely off topic not ever air cooled but very cool in the air.
Yesterday across the ditch a DH Mosquito took to the air, a seven year resto and around 16 years since the last one flew.
The following link has three pages and growing, if you are a plane nut or for that matter a fan of anything that is fast feast your eyes. Awesome,
amazing and a thing of beauty!
Official display day photos
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=airshow&action=display&thr...
Resto photos (52 pages and growing)
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Airshows&action=display&th...
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| posted on September 30th, 2012 at 09:14 AM |
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mosquito flies - this reminds me that "time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like an apple".
hth
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whatnow
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| posted on September 30th, 2012 at 09:28 AM |
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thanks for posting that.
is this the second production fuselage built in NZ?
can't wait till one comes over here.
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Carl and Emily
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| posted on September 30th, 2012 at 10:00 AM |
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Yes indeed,.. thanks for posting.
What an amazing looking machine.
I did a job for a guy once who had one of those rolls royce merlin engines in his garage.
His was from a spit fire.
It was just great to look at.
Old machines are great.
Great to see there are people out there making history live.
Lest we forget.
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DubbyFan
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| posted on September 30th, 2012 at 10:21 AM |
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posted by whatnow
thanks for posting that.
is this the second production fuselage built in NZ?
can't wait till one comes over here.
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Correct Henry, there are two more being restored after the one that flew yesterday. An industrious guy, Glynn Powell has made two concrete molds, they
actually lay plywood in the molds after each side is complete the pretty much glue the two halfs together.
Mr Powell wants to fly his across the ditch to Oz re-enacting a record flight from the 1950's. A Mosquito is to this day the fastest piston powered
aeroplane to cross the Tasman Sea, just over four hours from memory.
Hats off to Mr Powell great stuff!
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| posted on September 30th, 2012 at 12:57 PM |
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Great pics
and from memory they were made from mainly wood...
which it always had Me beat, how You can keep two Big Rolls Royce merlin engines in a wooden plane...?? lol
but I suppose there is a lot of metal framework
GREAT PLANE
there used to be a MUSTANG and a Spitfire in SCONE for many years, but the fellow who restored them and owned them was killed a few years ago
but it was great to see those Planes diving over SCONE..
the sound of the MUSTANG was EXCELLENT...
LEE
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| posted on September 30th, 2012 at 03:27 PM |
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laminated balsa and ply, i went to Duxford and Hendon field when i was in the UK last year, some amazing air craft there, the mosquito that's back in
the air is a work of art.
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