WW2 de Havilland Mosquito low level display
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- Awesome twin-Merlin sounds and great video of Keith Skilling and Dave Philips putting the newly restored World War 2-era Mosquito FB.26 fighter bomber through its paces during the aircraft's second display at Ardmore Aerodrome in Auckland, New Zealand.
KA114 (the serial no of this particular aircraft) is now painted in the colours of EG-Y of 487 (RNZAF) Squadron during 1943-1944. Three different Mosquitos carried these identification codes during that period.
This aircraft has been rebuilt/restored by AvSpecs (a.k.a. Warbird Restorations) in Auckland, and by a huge number and variety of subcontractors around the country and around the world -- well done (and thanks) to you all.
Special thanks to Glyn Powell of Auckland whose foresight and dedication over the past twenty years has meant that it has been possible to build a new wooden fuselage and wings for this aircraft.
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That bird couldn't wait to get off the ground.....SUPERB!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
The only thing that sounds better than a R-R Merlin is two R-R Merlins. What an absolute eargasm.
Awesome work, and really a beautiful plane! Greetings from Germany!
Thank you! Cheers!
The finest aircraft to emerge from the design boards of the Aircraft Industry during WWII. Geoffrey De Havilland's MASTERPIECE.
The genius was in the buid process
Just like Sir William Lyons, of Jaguar fame, they both had a love and feeling for graceful design.
Thank God it was on the Allies Side and not the Nazis side.
NO. The mosquitoes was a great airplane. But it’s was build thanks to German design. The allies, would research fallen axis planes and literally. Just put there own parts and keep the mainframe. Almost every American plane you see. Is a direct copy of wwII GERMAN DOWNED AIRCRAFT. The mosquitoe is obviously similar to the “He” and “Me” German designes.
@@ThomasDoubting5 well,---it all starts with an idea, a sketch, conviction, and unwavering determination, and, a gathering of skills.
Beautiful to look at, beautiful to listen to! A **gorgeous** aircraft!
Goering was sick with envy
It sure is! If I could design and build my own personal high-performance aircraft, the Mosquito is pretty much what I'd build.
2 Merlins? What did you think it would sound like!
When we said we were going to rebuild a mosquito they laughed . When we rolled it out and started the engines they stopped laughing
Are those Packard Merlins?
@@GnonplussedGnome Real live genuine Rolls Royce.
With that machine you could go out and win a war in style. What a beautiful sound!
these were the same as MK 21's but with bigger packards [225] from factory. this plane was restored but they didn't say much about the engines on the pages i read. RR versions would ironically probably be easier to get now
@Gary Tarr Yes they were but Packard built far more than Rolls did and Packard "Standardized" the Merlin. Here is a most excellent article on that process. Enjoy! www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a30763715/rolls-royce-vs-packard-who-built-a-better-merlin/
Will always love this beautiful work of art the wooden wonder the mighty beautiful mosquito.
Thank you! Cheers!
Wonderful to see. My father navigated Mossies in Burma - not as tough as the Beau, but a war winning aircraft. Who but De Havilland could have mated the Merlin to a balsawood airframe - a private venture but a world beater!
What an incredible masterpiece! A fine example of British Engineering. Seventy years old and still in fine form ❤
Loved every minute of it this & the beaufighter were the best fighter bombers in their day!!! Thanks for the post !
Glad you enjoyed it
She deserves much more credit for sure!
There’s something about this aircraft that makes it look like it wants to be ahead of itself, all the time. It must be the way the engines sit forward of the cockpit, it looks like they are constantly trying to tear themselves off the engine mounts and beat each other in a race!
Carried the same bombload as a B17. Two tons but at a speed and altitude the German fighters couldn't catch it. "In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked." Hermman Goering
A B-17 carried way more than a mere 4000 lbs of bombs, anywhere from 12 to 17,000.
@@intercommerce
"The B-17's armament consisted of five .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns, with a payload up to 4,800 lb (2,200 kg) of bombs on two racks in the bomb bay behind the cockpit". Everywhere you care to look this is its maximum payload.
@@intercommerce The Lancaster - the real heavyweight of WW2 carried 14,000 lbs. of bombs, up to 22,000 lbs. of bombs in modified versions. Are you really saying that the B17 could carry more than a Lancaster! REALITY CHECK MATE!
@@fossy4321 and not a reply in sight
@@thomashargreaves7020 They make you smile sometimes.
Love the sound of those Merlin engines!
It's just beautiful from every angle. A real work of art. Then you add the sound of those two Merlins... gorgeous.
2:33 The only thing better than a Merlin is... TWO merlins.
I was going to say that.
Absolutely correct 200%, sadly the word "awesome" doesn't quite give it enough oomph
or cover its amazing flying qualities!! British Aeronautical Engineering at its very best!!
Sorry, you are wrong, what about the 4 Merlins on a Lancaster!
@@christopherjameson2202 Even better!
My Grandfather served as an Engine Fitter on the Mossie in 235 Squadron At RAF Banff in Scotland during WW2, we owe that generation. What a piece of design.
yeah--only for gutless ,here today, gone tomorrow 'politicians', to hand our freedom, and democracy, to a foreign state. The treacherous bastards.
What a fantastic sound!!
Indeed!
What a sight to see,and hear this beautiful plane back in the sky.
We need to get one flying in the UK. Its been too long without one
That is being worked on as we speak:
www.peoplesmosquito.org.uk/the-vision/
Absolutely!!
sorry we should also recover and restore Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 L1547, which currently rests of the main runway of Old Speke Airport liverpool it rests only 50 yards from shore and has laid there since 10th October 1940, the air craft is the first production hawker hurricane
@@anthonymcdonnell6615 saw a Mozzie at an air display at Liverpool Airport years ago it was so fast there were contrails coming off the wingtips only ever seen that off jets
Beautiful bird❤️
It really is!
My father flew EG-W later re-designated as EG-A with 487 RNZAF Sqn. during the D-Day period. As I youngster I drew more Mosquitos on my writing pads than Spitfires! Love both of them along with the EE Canberra, which was another truly great aeroplane. FWIW: most bombing ops he undertook used 4x500lb bombs. Phil Runciman
Quite possibly the finest aircraft to come out of world War 2...
Or the DH Hornet, Winkle Brown's favourite and he described it as the Mosquito sports version! Same laminated wood and balsa filling, two dedicated low cross section Merlins and handed airscrews giving just under 500 mph. In service just before VJ day.
@Demo THE UNQUESTIONABLE CLAIM TO FAME WAS---THE UNEQUALLED RANGE OF MISSIONS, IT WAS ASKED TO DO. FOR HALF OF THE WAR, IT WAS THE FASTEST PLANE, WHICH, AS A BOMBER, WAS ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE. NO ARMAMENTS, JUST BLOODY FAST, GET IN THERE, AND SCRAM.
@Demo NAME IT'S EQUAL---LET ALONE A CHALLENGER
Wally Runciman had photographs taken at the end of his tour that showed all aspects of "his" plane. Warren at Avspecs used these to work out the paint job of this one. Phil Runciman
very nice video, hope to see mossie at fairford
Twin merlins, sounds like an angel dancing in your ears......... What a sound
Breathtaking. What an incredible piece of aeronautical engineering.
Great plane, great video. Thanks !
The mozzie and the F86 sabre are the greatest looking planes of all time , Id say the mosquito was the greatest aircraft of all time
Wow what a beautiful plane. The sound of those twin Merlin's are so sexual and wonderful. In my view it's the best plane around. Loved it as a child and still am infatuated with it now. Thank you so very much for the great photography of this wonderful plane. Just gives me shivers listening to this beautiful girl.
Year me to loved it since I was a boy mad about this aircraft sat in one years ago loved it.
Amazing!! Love to see a real Mosquitoe lift off!!!
YOU JUST DID
It can be done as follows: some wood, 2x merlin, plywood, 8x machine gun=Mosquito .Best plane.
4 machineguns and 2 20 mm hispano cannons
@@dickbouman2674 Yes.that was a lot of "poisonous" version.
The British feared that the Germans would take their Moquito secret radar.
In the beginning, the mosquito was not allowed to fly to the German coast.
(War testimony of Czechoslovak pilots WWII)
@@dickbouman2674 4 x 20 mm cannons
My Mom told me this was her favorite airplane to help build for the war.
My Grandad spent six weeks in the glass house for buzzing the railway station that his mates were at, just after the war. 300mph.
My great uncle was a pilot of a mosquito and his brother was a Lancaster pilot
We're down, now to park it in the garage!. That plane has fastenated me since I was a kid after I saw the movie " The 633 squadron"
What a growler; that's the way to display this dragon of the skies. Anyone seduced by her beauty, is gonna get their arse burnt.
What can be added to statements that have already been made about this absolutely magnificent aircraft!!! No wonder the Nazis had a job to catch this piece of brilliant British Aircraft engineering at its very best!! Superb & superb again & despite its age it has lost nothing of it awesomeness!!
The Mosquito and the Spitfire are 2 beautiful airplanes. The loveliest machine creations of man, in my view.
Couldn't agree more!
The only thing better than 1 Rolls Royce Merlin engine is 2.
There is nothing that sounds better than a Merlin. Ok 2 Merlins
wish I had a fiver, for each time I read that
Absolutely stunning, superb, stupendous, magnificent,--- beyond comparison. I think that this first restoration Mosquito, somehow, sounds and looks, much closer to the original historic brotherhood, than subsequent models. Maybe it's the recording quality, sound and visuals, the location, and light that day, and the agression shown by the pilot. 'this is a WAR BIRD'.
Behold the best sound in the world. Wonder what it would of been like if used in the Dambusters? Great video thanks
At the same time that 617 Squadron was formed to use the bouncing bomb, another squadron - 618 - was formed, using Mosquitos and a smaller version of the bouncing bomb. The small version was called Highball and the Mosquitos could carry two of them. They were intended primarily as anti-shipping weapons and there are TH-cam clips of inert Highball bombs being used on a time-expired battleship in one of the Scottish lochs.
Highball was never used operationally and 618 Squadron was disbanded after the war.
@@MarsFKA The Battleship was HMS Malaya
@@chrisrichards2544 Yes. Thank you.
Thanks for this great video - unfortunately we have no airworthy Mosquito in the UK at present which is a great shame, with its De Havilland trademark butterfly-wing tail and those graceful lines it is easily the prettiest twin-engine British aircraft of the war. The US P-38 Lightning is probably Its only rival in terms of sheer twin-engine elegance.
a real shame that it didn't stay in New Zealand Longer and perform alomg side the Avro Anson at Classicfighters this year, however such a great achievement to see a WW2 Legend flying once again
The kiwis are building others' i believe.Also the moulds they developed are being replicated and passed on.
@@jamessuhr9667 Well I hope they got TOP WACK for them, nobody else had the skill.
He told me the best thing about night flying was seeing the sun rise twice a day. Once in the air and again on the way to the mess for breakfast.
Wonderful in every way--and such a great dramatic sky too! She always looks and sounds better in New Zealand Skies. Come home Babe.
Awesome footage and sound! And I love the plane.
yeah--they kind of go together
Such an underrated aircraft and such a shame that there are so little of them. Amazing that they were made from wood but also a little annoying as now there’s hardly any to see. I’ve never seen one in person and I’d love to as my grandfather flew mosquitos and spitfires and flew the mosquito as a pathfinder for the dam busters raid.
Maybe she was 'underrated ' in the 50's and 60's when they were hardly seen. But since the New Zealand boys started to reproduce and assemble what remained. Suddenly---the WORLD has woke up to her historic abilities, and her well deserved praise.
Few planes in the world can make your heart beat race
As an Irishman living in New Zealand 🇳🇿 it blows my mind how much great preservation takes place here. It's the same population as Ireland 🇮🇪. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Excellent film of an excellent aeroplane! I wish we had one in the UK.
''The Peoples Mosquito'' IT'S ON IT'S WAY---DONATE, AND SPEED UP THAT HAPPY DAY, I JUST DID.
can you imagine this plane with two griffin engines OMG
M'mmmm---but wouldn't sound the same.
😎👍👍 Only thing that sounds BETTER than a Rolls Engine?
2 Rolls Engines !!!!!!!
VVRRRRRROOOOOOMMM
VVRRRRRROOOOOOMMM
😂👍
My favourite aircraft probably ever! Genius design using non strategic materials and powered by two of the best internal combustion engines ever made! I so want to fly in one!
Wonderful...when Great Britain really was..Great.
Now I would love to see and hear a Hawker Typhoon or Tempest, but that's a more difficult proposition sadly..
There are plans to get a Typhoon in the air. Google the Hawker Typhoon Restoration Group.
Kermit Weeks in Florida (Fantasy of Flight Facebook page) has a long-term Tempest restoration programme under way. From what I've see so far, he's building a Mark 5, but the only wings available are from a Mark 2, so modifications are necessary. A lot of the work is being done in Britain.
Work is also being done on a Napier Sabre engine for this project.
ringfinder1962--bit late in responding to your question but--I saw that TV prog too, and yes, that was this very same Mossie, the only flyer in the world. She was made/reconstructed to order in New Zealand, by the owner,a US aircraft Museum owner (as seen on TV) who has since sold the whole collection. Weird eh?
Beautiful Mossie .. Excellent footage and sound!
I heard it was difficult for radar to spot due to it was made from wood .Is this true.
to some extent, but not totally obscured
Admirable image! Mythical plane! + the sound! I love this sound! Thank you!
Image admirable! Avion mythique! + le son! J'aime ce son! Merci!
I wish we had one flying in Australia as well as an ex ran sea venom and A4 Skyhawk ! The fleet air arm @ nowra NSW should restore and make a few examples airworthy again rather than make them collect cobwebs & dust in museums!!!!!!
During the war my father worked at Gordon Russell's cabinet makers, and he described the parts he made for the Mossie, as you know de Havilland farmed out to various companies to build parts so the plane wouldn't be put in jeopardy if one factory was attacked. He went on to serve for the RAF at the end of the war, a time where the military had all the conscripts but didn't need them. Thanks for the vid, it was excellent, and that sound, wow!!!
I did not know about this. So when Hughes built the Hercules "Spruce Goose" out of wood he was following the precedent of the most successful single combat plane of WWII.
I guess so although De Havilland had built the Comet racing plane before the War which, like the Mosquito, was made largely of wood.
@@ivorbiggun710 True. Maybe he thought that his Monster, might be less obvious on Radar screens?
Every time this priceless aircraft takes to the skies, I am in fear of anything happening to it. So few of the so many are left, and even FEWER of the "Few" 😭
Well done to our friendly cousins across the dutch ehhhh..😁😉from a very proud Aussie. 😎
😁
Personally I'd like to see a Mossie airworthy in all the Commonwealth nations which flew it.
@@ivorbiggun710 That would be a fitting tribute!
633 Squadron ....
Exellent video and sound! I love it. And of course the plane.
NOBODY DOES LIKE THESE GUYS. I MEAN ALL THOSE INVOLVED OF COURSE, BUT A SPECIAL THANKS FOR THE FILM AND SOUND GUYS, WHO ARE---UNEQUALLED--- IN THIS FIELD.
It's a kind of magic !... what a sound !... beautiful !
stunning aircraft, as fast as the fighters yet could still drop a devastating bomb load,👍
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this was the best British aircraft of WWII. I fully expect to be jumped on by hordes of Spitfire freaks but I’m sticking with it. This aircraft achieved more than any other on the basis of its size - “pound for pound”, if you like - than any other. The variety of missions it was used for, its low casualty rate and the trouble it caused the Germans was out of proportion to the effort expended compared to other types. And it was built largely from non-strategic materials. The Brits found they could do things with this aircraft that nobody else seriously attempted. So difficult was it to intercept that the RAF ran an audacious daylight raid on Berlin during a speech over radio by Hermann Goering. Bombs could be heard during his speech and eventually he was cut short as they hit the transmitter. It was a machine that frustrated the Nazi leadership more than any other and was the best twin of the war. As good as the Ju-88 was, this was in another post code. I reckon it ranks with the P-51 Mustang. Not only was it one of the very best aircraft of WWII, it was one of the most important.
Steady now Pal, ranks alongside you say? The P51 , BECAME' a good combat fighter and Bomber escourt, BECAUSE, of the Merlin engine, that the RAF fitted to their Mustangs, who , by the way, also gave it that excellent name.
@@MrDaiseymay Who is denying any of this?
Awesome FUCKING Awesome..! Yea Baby….
Thank You….
this things made partially of wood right? i was reading that this was designed as an interceptor, to shoot down bombers or incoming fighters, so it was made mostly of wood and other lightweight materials then given the ridiculous powerplant of 2 rolls royce merlin engines so it could reach speeds of 415 mph and just outrun german fighters.
The wood construction was not so much about speed etc to start with, but more about developing an aircraft that did not take (metal) resources away from the aircraft that were already being built.
@@HistAvFilmUnit Yep, and DeHavillands had plenty of skills and ability , making Wooden Aircraft , even in the 1930's.
I could listen to that all day!
Let's Wistle the 633 Squadron Theme together!
hang on, i'll get me teeth
Fantastic...a big well done to all involved in bringing this wonderful aircraft alive again.
Beautiful plane.
Serious ass kicking machine! Would love to see the bomber version too.
It was a light bomber
The bomber version has the Perspex or glass nose for the bombardier station. The one in this video has the solid nose with guns mounted in it......fighter version.
Mosquito was super versatile and served many roles other than the bomber one for which it was intended. Amazing machine.
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It also carried the same weight of bombs as a B17.
@@falconeaterf15 And THAT, is why it has no rivals. It was the forrunner of the modern All weather, all purpose Fighter-Bomber's of today.
Nice camera work. Filming aircraft with a zoom lens is not easy.
Thanks for that - nice to know someone appreciates the skill involved! ;-)
Timeless legend 👍🇳🇿
Fantastic plane with great engines! just great
That menacing sound as it flys by. Woof
Britain's original figher-bomber.
Maan it's fast look at that takeoff rooll...wow😧
when open to any expocion to go see them these historic World War 2 pieces big hug to place this festival grasias
Never git tired of this. Especially when flying at the camera. Easy to see that, as an engineering solution of the time, it was perfect. So many innovations in the design and manufacture that also lived on after the war too.
The finest aircraft of WW2 without doubt.
Always great to see a Mossie going through it's paces.
Wow. Sad to hear that.@Demo
The wooden wonder what a plane
the miraculous mosquito. what a plane indeed
I remember that sound as they flew over our Sussex home on their way across the Channel,I was 10 when the war ended.
During the war, we lived 8 miles from the Castle Bromwich ( B'ham )Shadow factory-for Spitfires, and as a 3 year old , i would watch them flying over our house, probably some were piloted by those brave ladies of the ATA.
beautiful bird... awesome sound.. very nice display :-)
What's better than one Merlin? Two of course😉
Or four.
@@ivorbiggun710 Absolutely
Mosquito Squadron . Best movies depicting the history and Mosquito's combat history
Great livery, love the gray/olive drab.
thanks for posting this its great that a mosquitos flying again,next job is to get one flying in the uk. Their why the germans had the phrase mosqkito panik
excellent video mosquito I imagine ia 24 Calquin flying mosquito as his cousin was sensational view decade festibales 40.50 Hasian July 9 1948 will bsas tienpo machine or worm them Aujero jja greetings
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what a good looking girl she is
Betty Grable ? PAHH !
I'm sure that plane sounded so good the Germans didn't want to shoot at it.
Oh they did, Goering said they would get DOUBLE POINTS for downing one.
Awesome Merlin sound and no music. Thank you!
Our pleasure!
The only thing that can sound better than a Merlin is two of them.
And that's why the once mediocre P 51, was turned into Cinderella.
Multiple eargasms! Love this little beast😍🔥🔝
a real Woodpecker
Nice to see the wheels up this time!