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At 1:32 is my Father Jim Living - Jim died June 25th 2024 and his time with Spartan Air was a a big part of his early life and had many stories from the adventures he had while with them. He will be sorely missed.

He was my great grandfather and I always looks up to him for his flying career and the stories he told me. thanks for posting this.

I've always enjoyed this type of art. Even as a kid I thought it was interesting.

Jolly good show!

Can you imagine if one could be built from Carbon fiber!?? And what about a modern turbo prop engine !!

Fantastic!😀👌👌

Made of dubbin cloth,and 8 browning machine guns

I'm not a flying enthusiast by any stretch of the imagination, but for me the most gorgeous aircraft ever to take to the skies were the DH Mosquito and (much later) the Bucaneer. MsG

Magic plane,Magic pilot.

Brilliant

Love this plane!

Canada did not "fall under British rule". Canada became independent in 1867. Fix this.

Yet another reminder, that when members of the anglosphere work as one, we are unstoppable. United we dominate the planet.

Didn't only save the empire, saved the free World with the Spitfire and helped 'check' the Germans threat of victory...

Hurricanes apparantly were easier/quicker to repair as they were of metal and fabric construction and could take more punishment than the all metal Spitfire. My Grandfather was a specialist ground crew member in 'fabric' repairs on Hurricanes. Lest we forget them all. Nuff said.

You state that Germany was planning to invade England. In fact, the situation was far more serious , as they were also planning to invade Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Canadians were great soldiers and pilots in WWII. I had uncles in WWII, New Zealanders, one flying Hurricanes and P47s in the RAF and the other a tank driver in North Africa and Italy. They always had great things to say about the Canadians. Cheers from NZ.

The greatest generation 2🙏

My father flew with 305 out of Lasham

The thumbnail pic is that of a George Petty pin-up from Esquire magazine from 1944. I have the 1944 year in review centerpiece that showed all his greatest pu's from 1943 and 1944 Included in that is the original Memphis Bell....only she wore a gray bathing suit instead of a red one.

Little known Fact, there was also 7 Dwarfs B-29s and a Snow White B-29, the B-29 Doc was the only survivor

Over 2000 Polish engenires was employed in 1939 / 1940 by Havilland in Canada to create mosqito because in Poland before WWII was bigest factory of playwood in the world and we have design lots of new type of playwoods used also in Mosquito . It mean its fully Polish project and design because noone could expect that plane like this can fly that fast but we had experience in Poland before the war to build planes like this for mostly sport pourpouse....and now noobody even speak that it was our invention , same like metal detector , buletproof jacket, bluelaser, , fiberglass for data , vitamins , railway steell, welding constractions , method of grouth minerals used for create processors , and many more ,... yes you speak about Havilland and the others .....tell about real creators and inventors from Poland ....really sad

My Dads typhoon squad the 438 Wildcats ensign was done by Walt Disney Dad was 17 when my Grand mother gave her con sent for him to go His squad deployed for D day plus 3 They flew off the beach at Normandy and didnt stop until they were in Berlin, A great brave guy I miss my Dad

Lame! ... No discussion on neither the Japanese or Italian (nor French) [WWII] warplanes[?]! Perhaps the title to this presentation should have been adjusted more to [suit] both the narrator's and host's lack of general knowledge concerning the [broad] title's topic. And at 0:47: the reference to 'Iron Cross[?]' ... 'What[?]' - so did 'they' in fact just emblazon 'blown-up' Iron Crosses to all their warplanes then? (for *_"Christ's_* sakes!") ... The correct [German] term 'there' is, _'Balkenkreuz'_ (Balk [or Beam/Bar] cross) - there is simply no other better (English translation) term in describing the WWII-era Luftwaffe emblematic insignia; and use of the [all-encompassing] term, 'roundel', is perhaps entirely inaccurate (or inappropriate) here as well ... Just so you all know - when/if you decide to upload any more such content in the future.

Notice that it''s only Army, not Navy, planes with nose art. The Navy did not it on their aircraft.

Omg, the walls are thinner than what I was expecting, this plane was genius...

I'm going to have that stuff tattooed on me nose.

My Dad was a Navigator for Spartan Air and flew with them both in Canada and Columbia. He later went on to work on the Apollo program and helped put a man on the moon.

My Northern Irish born Father, Eugene Ignatius Marley (deceased), was a navigator for Spartan Air Services back in the early 50's. He was born in '28 and joined the Merchant Marines at 17, soon after WWII ended. He gradually worked his way up to Navigator on sea-going vessels. He skipped ship in Cuba in '53 (as the story goes) and emigrated to Canada. He went to school in Nova Scotia and Montreal and in the summers he lived and worked north of the Artic Circle and made his contribution to the maps mentioned in this video as a Navigator with Spartan Air Services. He married my Mom, then a stewardess with Air Canada, and they spent their first year together in Delft, The Netherlands, where he went to school to learn how to transform those aerial photographs into topographical maps using an instrument known as a stereoplotter. I believe that Spartan Air subsidized that schooling and he returned to work for them after graduation. Another opportunity presented itself once President John F Kennedy proclaimed the goal of putting a man on the moon and my Dad was hired by the man that made the original flight simulator, Edwin A. Link. My parents, older sister and I were awarded American Citizenship and moved to Binghamton, NY. Dad worked on the simulator for the lunar lander. He transformed the information contained within the photos from previous Apollo missions into topographical maps of the moon so that the mission planners and astronauts on Apollo 11 had elevations to go along with those pictures for simulated landings. The Mosquito was a huge part of his growth path!

Re the coolers in the leading edge of the wings, does this design kill any lift in this part of the wings? Is all aerodynamic activity performed outboard of the engines? What's going on when I look up at a A380 going over my house, it has got moveable parts on the wings between the engines. Please advise.

Thank you

Thankyou for the updates Richard.

Unbelievably beautiful machine. I saw the last flying example in the UK at Old Warden airfield, on a flying day for the Shuttleworth Collection in about 1984, maybe 85. It went edge on, wing tip about 20 feet off the grass, right down the airfield at about 250mph!!! Then flew up and away, to return for a low pass, even faster, level flight, about 10 feet off the deck!!!! The old boys just said, 'He's throwing it about a bit '!!!! That was it for me!!! A near 50 yr old wooden plane doing THAT!!!! Amazing!!! Can't wait to see our new old girl flying again, thanks to The People's Mosquito Project!!

The ozys had the English marking but had a kangaroo in red

Very interesting.

Super Wabbit got under my skin, the crew went down. I do want to say it was due mostly because they were ordered to remove their nose art from their B-29, and they were not the only ones ordered to remove nose art, that also met with terrible fates, after they lost their Magic, their good Ju-Ju.

Even with this and similar footage, a certain WW2 history channel still said the Mosquito used a metal framework inside the fuselage in the style of Hurricane. And the person who said it is a big fan of the Mosquito. Unfortunately this is how falsehoods get started.

Best camouflage during wwll: Aluminum overcast with D-Day strikes.........

The americans abandoned color on their heavy bombers due to weight not a casual disregard for the enemy. this is especially true for the B-29 where they were doing all they could to reduce the weight to increase range and it was found the paint covering the entire skin made a considerable difference.

Fabric? It was a good fighter.

Balkenkreuz (lit. '"beam cross" or "bar cross"') Not "iron" cross.

Wondering why there is no propeller spinner on these hurricanes

My father, 102 year old Fl/Lt Colin Bell DFC of RAF 608 Squadron Pathfinder Group Light Night Striking Force together with his navigator the late RCAF Fl/Lt Doug Redmond DFC - subsequeñtly Yale Phd and President of the Canadian Institute of Forestry - flew the first Canadian built Mk 25 DH Mosquito bomber with Packard Merlin engines on a raid against Berlin. You can see father 4 years ago in a Lewis Air Legend TH-cam filmed at San Antonio, Texas with a Mosquito FB.

What an incredibly informative video, excellent; I've loved this aircraft since seeing 633 Squadron (attack on the Death Star anyone), as a kid.

Bomber Command Hastings "Intelligence had been urging Bomber Command that not only was IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) pointless over Germany, but like all transmissions which could be monitored by the enemy, its use represented a positive threat to bombers' safety." page 167 "The night-fighters, diverted by a Mosquito 'spoof' raid on Berlin, were slow to grasp the British intentions, but caught up with the last stages of the attack on Peenemunde." page 210

Great Aircraft. I would rather fly a hurricane than a spitfire.

Thank you very much.

The one thing that you miss out is that De Havilland were experienced at designing and building wooden aeroplanes. The DH88 Comet that won the England -Australia air race was wood. The beautiful Albatross mail plane was wood and used many of the techniques passed on to the Mosquito design. It was a natural decision for them to build a high speed high altitude plane from wood.

Thank you Canada 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✌️🫶🏻🫵🏻

They were fast enough to get in and bomb high value targets and get out by out speeding the German fighters ...!