My mother worked on assembly at De Havilland, Hatfield and took a great deal of pride in her work. In training, she had to make a beautiful dovetailed toolbox with dovetailed drawers.
My mother worked on the assembly line at the De Havilland Canada plant in Downsview, Ontario. Approximately 1300 Mosquitoes were made there and shipped over the North Atlantic to Europe. She was very proud of her service.
The Australian built Mosquitoes were better because they used Coachwood which was stronger and lighter than the balsa/ply composite, and also because of newer and stronger glues that were developed in Australia to cope with the tropical climate the planes were used in.
He's run out of stolen CV footage to upload, so he's broadening out into a wider range of (sometimes) stolen footage. Remember, kids, Crown Copyright is a thing and doesn't expire!
@@iatsd Come on now, don't dig at armoured carriers/archivist, You Tube is built on creators not actually creating, just uploading content they neither owned or did much to create into content. You just sound a bit salty, like an old mariner 😝
Heh, well I am branching out from aircraft carriers and thought I should have a more inclusive name…. It started out as only supporting my armouredcarriers.com website but has spiraled out of control !
I was watching Kermit Weeks visiting Steve Hintons shop today on you tube and the New Zealand team were assembling a Mosquito for an American client. The latest Mosquito being built is coming to the UK 😂
Fabulous - what a plane… is it true that it was designed to be more buoyant in the event it came down on water? Is there any evidence this saved lives? Love to know.
I love it, but dispassionately, the Mosquito was the best plane in the war. Best Night fighter, best recon, best long range interdictor (land or sea). Too many roles performed too well to not be top dog. Not the usual take, but the truth.
In terms of cost per ton of bombs delivered, it was far and away more effective than the heavy bomber force. The loss rate was so very much lower. Each aircraft was not only cheaper to construct and fuel (but also, very importantly, to man) than the Lancasters and Halifaxes, each of which made fewer sorties on average so didn’t actually drop sufficiently more bombs per aircraft built to justify the extra expense. Bomber Command would have been far more efficient if it had only flown Mosquitoes. Once again, in war cheap quantity trumps expensive “quality”.
@@ACD54 I've often thought that. Bomber Command's horrific crew loss rate would have been a small fraction because the Mosquito only had two crew and was extremely difficult to shoot down. But from what I've read, they made Mosquitos absolutely as fast as they could, so simply wouldn't have had sufficient numbers to completely replace the heavies.
@@alanjm1234 I think it was just a question of priorities. If they'd switched resources from building Lancasters, Halifaxes and especially Stirlings they could have done it. Mosquitoes were partly cheaper because they were simpler to produce - and there were plenty of people with the requisite woodworking skills available.
Fastest twin engine aircraft at the time certainly. There were faster single seaters such as late model Spitfires and the first Mustangs and Tempests to name a few on the allied sign that could outrun it. The Germans had a few aces up their sleeve as well, the ME 262 would have been undergoing trials by that time.
Imagine the stealth capabilities, with today's carbon fiber construction, ( including the propellers) radar masking paint, powered with gas turbine engines....... Are-is there any Billionaires interested ?
My mother worked on assembly at De Havilland, Hatfield and took a great deal of pride in her work. In training, she had to make a beautiful dovetailed toolbox with dovetailed drawers.
My mother worked on the assembly line at the De Havilland Canada plant in Downsview, Ontario. Approximately 1300 Mosquitoes were made there and shipped over the North Atlantic to Europe. She was very proud of her service.
Our uncle flew a Canadian-built Mossie. But then he was in the RCAF! (he loved it!)
Gorgeous, gorgeous airplane.
My late father worked on the design of the interchanageable guages for assemble in various locations !
The Australian built Mosquitoes were better because they used Coachwood which was stronger and lighter than the balsa/ply composite, and also because of newer and stronger glues that were developed in Australia to cope with the tropical climate the planes were used in.
Nice, thanks.
Everydays a schoolday !
Thank you;.
The Wooden Wonder!
When did you change your name to Armoured Archivist and what's the reasoning ? Just asking out of interest, cheers. Love the Mossie 👍🏽
He's run out of stolen CV footage to upload, so he's broadening out into a wider range of (sometimes) stolen footage. Remember, kids, Crown Copyright is a thing and doesn't expire!
@@iatsd Come on now, don't dig at armoured carriers/archivist, You Tube is built on creators not actually creating, just uploading content they neither owned or did much to create into content. You just sound a bit salty, like an old mariner 😝
Heh, well I am branching out from aircraft carriers and thought I should have a more inclusive name…. It started out as only supporting my armouredcarriers.com website but has spiraled out of control !
@@ArmouredCarriers Great, I'll look forward to what to a broader content then 👍🏼 I'm certain it'll all be right up my street.
I was watching Kermit Weeks visiting Steve Hintons shop today on you tube and the New Zealand team were assembling a Mosquito for an American client. The latest Mosquito being built is coming to the UK 😂
Fabulous - what a plane… is it true that it was designed to be more buoyant in the event it came down on water? Is there any evidence this saved lives? Love to know.
I think that was just propaganda ...
I love it, but dispassionately, the Mosquito was the best plane in the war. Best Night fighter, best recon, best long range interdictor (land or sea). Too many roles performed too well to not be top dog. Not the usual take, but the truth.
In terms of cost per ton of bombs delivered, it was far and away more effective than the heavy bomber force. The loss rate was so very much lower. Each aircraft was not only cheaper to construct and fuel (but also, very importantly, to man) than the Lancasters and Halifaxes, each of which made fewer sorties on average so didn’t actually drop sufficiently more bombs per aircraft built to justify the extra expense. Bomber Command would have been far more efficient if it had only flown Mosquitoes. Once again, in war cheap quantity trumps expensive “quality”.
@@ACD54 I've often thought that. Bomber Command's horrific crew loss rate would have been a small fraction because the Mosquito only had two crew and was extremely difficult to shoot down.
But from what I've read, they made Mosquitos absolutely as fast as they could, so simply wouldn't have had sufficient numbers to completely replace the heavies.
@@alanjm1234 I think it was just a question of priorities. If they'd switched resources from building Lancasters, Halifaxes and especially Stirlings they could have done it. Mosquitoes were partly cheaper because they were simpler to produce - and there were plenty of people with the requisite woodworking skills available.
British Eccentric, Brutally Effective
Of I was a pilot in WWII, this is the plane I'd choose.😊😊😊😊😊 The fighter version of course.
..Needs a turret ... Oppps! no it doesn't. :D A schnell bomber but on the wrong side..
**correct side you mean
Germany had some truly amazing aircraft, vehicles and weaponry....but they didn't have the Mossie 😛
@@Afterscience742 .. Nein ! .. Nein ! .. errr, I mean .. yeah .. :D
They did experiment with a turret design. Slowed it down too much
They have skills that are all lost today
Incredible
Fastest twin engine aircraft at the time certainly. There were faster single seaters such as late model Spitfires and the first Mustangs and Tempests to name a few on the allied sign that could outrun it. The Germans had a few aces up their sleeve as well, the ME 262 would have been undergoing trials by that time.
✨🏴✨🥰✨👍✨♥️✨🤗✨.
Just because the Mosquito is made of wood is no excuse to shove that wood through the spinning saw barehanded.
That's how most timber is sawn, unless the piece being sawn is small.
What an amazing creativity!!
Germans tried same concept and were very unsuccessful
Imagine the stealth capabilities, with today's carbon fiber construction,
( including the propellers) radar masking paint, powered with gas turbine engines.......
Are-is there any Billionaires interested ?