Flying The Mozzie
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มี.ค. 2014
- Test pilot describes what it's like to fly the only airworthy de Havilland Mosquito in the world. Keith flew into Tauranga Airport in New Zealand with the aircraft's builder Warren Denholm and spoke to members of the Aviation Historic Society (NZ).
(See also "Mosquito Rescue" for how the Mosquito project came together.)
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Well done to the restorers. It's really great to see such an icon fly again.
Really interesting to hear what it is like to fly a Mossie. I never expected to hear of one flying again. Kudos to Warren Denholm for getting them in the air again!
It's only listening to talks like this that help explain some of the difficulties in operating a Mosquito, and how unforgiving they can be in certain circumstances, and yet the pilots liked flying them. This is a super talk.
The special glue developed to make the Mosquito, was also used to glue the laminations used in Motor Torpedo Boats and by home-built small aircraft that many British flying clubs used long before the second World War.
Amazing what you guys have achieved. And what a great thing that you have preserved this fantastic plane in flying condition. Cheers from the Netherlands.
An exellent description of Piloting such an iconic airplane, with it's positive, and quirky foibles. Only those who have flown her, can really appreciate her greatness.
Wonderful talk! I loved the details about how the Mosquito handles and the set up of the controls.
If I have one dream it’s to fly in one of these wonderful aircraft!
This is my favorite piston engine plane of all time. I love everything about it. My favorite jet of all time is the Arado 234-C. WW2 had the greatest planes !!!
Brilliant, thanks for sharing! Wish there were these kind of presentations on all the WW2 aircraft!
Great talk and insight into flying the Mossie. Thanks very much for sharing this. It would be great to hear more such insights on other warbirds.
Jerry Yagain is really a fabulous guy a great pilot and such fun to talk to. I really enjoy his airshows at Pungo, Virginia. I love when he goes walking around amongst the crowds and they have no idea who he is and what he has done for the preservation of historical acft. To Jerry I thank you.
ABSOLUTELY
Will never understand why this vid does not hava a million views.....
Because its boring - just sayin'
Because it doesn't show the plane actually flying.
I know, right? The Wooden Wonder deserves far more coverage, IMHO. Fortunately, I get to fly it in the simulator worlds of il-2, and the massive online WW2 sim Aces High 3. Both games model the Mossie fairly well.
It's just a bit technical. I'm not a flyer at all but concentrated hard enough and appreciated what the chap was saying. From this I take out if it even greater respect for the young men who flew these planes in WW2. I can only hope I'd could emulate them if ever called upon but have no doubts I probably couldn't. Not that arrogant!
Mosquito ,bomber / fighter / intruder / night fighter . They had it RIGHT !!!!! . Thank you .
Superb.
Very eloquent.... very informative.
Thanks for sharing to all.
Outstanding presentation!
Brilliant discription it was almost like flying this remarkeble airplane yourselfe thankyou!
learned a lot from this very interesting talk
Bloody good show old chaps TFS "thanks for sharing"
Awesome!... beautiful aircraft.. timeless legend.👍🇳🇿
Thanks for the video and talk ,love this bird )
Spot on talk. Wonderful aircraft but did have it issues and the high safety speed was quite important just try and land ahead!!!!!!
A fairly close relative flew this type during the war with 107 Squadron (2 Group). I have his log book, training notebooks, maps, nav computer, uniform #1, gloves and Irvin (circa 1940 pattern.
Although he survived, he was a very different character to the one before he volunteered. Very short temper, heavy drinker and prone to nightmares.
He died before i was born but his wife was very dear to me.
I'd be interested to know his name and dates with 107. My late father was a navigator with themin early '45.
NO one worships the setting sun, but only the dawn.
thats why not millions watch this.
Only true quality people watch this.
A joy to watch
Always amazed a the huge strides made in aviation of that era v. the cars which were clunky clunkers til the 60's -
Thanks to everyone who realised that the Mosquito was a unique airplane, nothing to do with the USA, simply the product of the British Aircraft Industry, specifically the Genius, Geoffrey De Havilland. The Mosquito was the third element in the British Trilogy, Spitfire/Hurricane, Lancaster and Mosquito.
Canada is not Britain
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I think you will find that the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane are different aircraft, by different manufacturers. Worth noting that all four planes cited are by different companies - Supermarine, Hawker, Avro and de Havilland
It was an incredible British creation. But like most all allied aircraft, materials were sourced from many (allied) nations including the USA:
"Aircraft were needed and Roddis Plywood and Veneer Company, as well as
Lullaby/Oshkosh Pluswood/Northern Veneer Company supplied Sir Geoffrey
Dehavilland with thin veneer and plywood for the Dehavilland Mosquito.
Materiel was desperately needed in Britain. "
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This is not to claim that the Mosquito is any less British; only to say Allied nations pitched in together to kick the hun's ass. After all, if not for the British order/requisition, naming convention and then idea to fit it with the Merlin, the Mustang might never have existed.
soaringtractor . True and the Allison engine was a piece of crap. The Mustang was and sadly this is still classified info, the brainchild of the Cottons club pilots who drew up the spec for a fast single seat recon aircraft that had the range to cover all of germany. The air ministry then packaged/stole their design as a spec for the yanks to build and let North American take credit for the design. Be that as it may, North American did a damn fine job.
CC11 had special access and highly skilled crews to take production aircraft and soup them up. The Mustang being their dream child. But how many people have even heard of the X squadrons even now ? Who indeed gives credit to westlands whirlwind twin engine fighter ? The obvious prototype air frame for the Mossie and meteor ?
what a beautiful aircraft i so want a ride in this if it comes to Motueka
Scary but beautiful
Thanks!
I'd like to see more PIREPS by this gent!!! I notice that you do not have the stick pinned back on rollout (once tail is down). Does the castoring TW or differential throttles have something to do with it? I was a big fan of the late Jeff Ethell's writing.
love this video
Nice Insight
All fighter aircraft ,throttles were on the port side . Bombers ,throttles on the pedestal centre in the the cockpit . Thank you .
Love the Mos' but the P-38 Lightning would have something to say about the statement that this was the fastest piston engined airplane in the world when it was first built. The P-47 Thunderbolt started deliveries only a month behind Mosquito. Those two hotrods did not have a bomb bay of course.
"Flying the Mosquito, it's fantestic" - could only be a Kiwi.
She's a ballerina in the sky
A beautiful airplane with so much history👍
Instead of hitting the brakes Mr. Skilling , control by advancing one throttle more than the other . But I'd like to thank all our NZ & OZ brothers for their most skilful aid in WW2 :)
Keith Skilling has been flying high performance vintage aircraft longer than many knowledgable TH-cam warriors have been alive. I'm pretty sure that he knows what he is doing.
So do the owners of the very expensive vintage aircraft that he flies.
The only airplane I'd like to have more than this one is the Dehavilland Hornet. The Hornet took the Mosquito to the next and final level of development for piston engined propeller aircraft.
+drott150 A surprise discovery and project was announced in October 2017 for the restoration of a DH Sea Hornet to flying condition. The work will be done in NZ.
Lots of peaple shout about the spitfire and yes it's beautiful !!! But the mosquito is on another level of perfection on an other planet ???
By what I can tell. This was a hell of a good aircraft, Far more usefull than a spitfire. But never received the praise it should have. Although the desighn difficulties you express. Makes me wonder why they never tried to correct it's flaws.
I think that's an unfair comparison. The Spitfire was an equally extraordinary achievement. I don't think it serves either aircraft well to think in terms of one being "better" than the other. Horses for courses and all that. They were both private ventures in a time when the Air Ministry seemed locked into issuing unrealistic specifications to manufacturers resulting in mediocre aircraft. Reginald Mitchell and Geoffrey de Havilland had vision and a single purpose when they drew up their designs. They were brave in design and moved things forward by a considerable measure. That's what makes both aircraft great.
@@timhancock6626 That is true , But the multi roles of the mozzi and it being made largely of wood. Meant they could be built in any workshops without to much machinery. That helped greatly with the airfields being bombed. Yet it was capable of several roles. They where both great aircraft and i would nether say the spitfire was less worth. Just that the mozzi had more capabilities and should be appreciated as much as the spit. Growing up it was always about the spitfire and i heard little of that wonderful multi role mozzi and it should of had an equal rating. Read up more on that aircraft and see just how useful it actually was.
just going to say... the instrument in mossie is not in inches, but in pounds of boost
Did he say 'the Mustang can't dogfight'? Interesting, never heard that before!
that's what he said mate. the yanks will hate it but here's a man with more experience than most. swallow it.
Correct, it was a horrible airplane in a turn fight. It bleed energy much faster than others and the rate of climb was less than most. It pretty funny that most will agree the spitfire and 109 are basically matched in a dogfight and it’s also agreed that a spitfire can beat the heck out of a mustang in a dogfight. All of a sudden when you say 109 on a mustang in a dogfight, somehow the mustang supposedly is better. 🤔 I did have a higher top speed (the 109K was faster than a mustang though) and could accelerate faster going downhill and had more range. That’s it. Less maneuverability, less firepower than a 109/190. I have not found anyone yet that has flown a 109 with a mustang that says the mustang was any good in a turn fight. Ray Hanna, Mark Hanna, Skip Holm etc....highly experienced warbird pilots.
Oohhh "change hands" - too hard, I'll leave it to the experts.
Great video.
A strange thing to hear of, but there MUST be very good and practicle reasons for that, Given the speed of it's creation and build, the urgency of the situation at that very critical time, it is self explanetary really. I guess that, with genius, comes excentricity, and we had plenty of that.
Interesting remark by Keith Skilling that the P51 Mustang couldn't dogfight. Official 8th Airforce losses state that 2,201 P51's -- 1,043 P47s,--- 451 P38s. were lost in the ETO. Those figures seem to bear out the truth of his criticism.
Only true if you compare the relative numbers of these aircraft. So if there were twice as many P-51s as P-47s the loss ratio was about the same.
About the same number of P 51`s and P 47`s were made, of these not all of either was used in Europe, the same for the P 38. I have seen that in air combat not a single Spitfire MK XIV was shot down, the Spitfire Mk XIV was in action from late 1943 to the end f the war and it did take on any Luftwaffe plane, the USAAF tried to shoot down Spitfires but failed every time.
WHY WOULD THE USAAF WANT, TO SHOOT DOWN A SPIT ?
How many of these were lost to ground fire, it's a fact that the Mustang could out outperform the ME 109 in all aspects except climb rate, even then the ME 109 would stall first
These numbers represent losses to all causes on combat missions including such things as mechanical failure, running out of fuel and AA. The P-51 was very susceptible to ground fire with all its coolant lines in the belly of the plane - a hit anywhere in its coolant system and it was not making it back - yet it was still used extensively for ground attack. Hubert Zemke had his P-51 breakup in heavy turbulence (probably due to overstressing the air frame pulling G's in a previous mission), Francis Gabreski hit the ground strafing a German airfield in his P-47, George Preddy's P-51 was knocked down by a flak battery putting him in the Channel, and Henry R. Spicer got is P-51 shot down as he descended to 12,000 ft to light his pipe as he approached the Channel. These top pilots were not shot down by enemy aircraft. As far as the P-38's, about 20% of them were unarmed and used for aerial reconnaissance - and probably accounted for a hundred or more of the losses in the ETO where they were used extensively for aerial photography over enemy territory. The UK is listed as having lost 30,045 fighters in Europe - the breakdown is not given.
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Thank england
jenny gore, England had better get rid of political correctness or they won't have a country
A good all around aircraft but not quite good at everything all around. He stated fastest aircraft in the world when it first debut that's not true, maybe for a medium bomber but not fastest all around a P-38 would zip right by the Mossie a great effort by the Brits though.
You had better update Wikipedia. according to that the P38 had around 600BHP less power but still managed to be only 1 mph slower than the Mossie. Mind you I believe the USA gave there max speed unladen. 2 tons is an awful lot you know. They also say the engines were not exactly reliable.
The ONLY aircraft in WW2 that could earn a German fighter pilot 2 kills
Idiot
How many in a B- 17 crew, if your gonna be that way about it
@@Scatpack21 hey jimmie your the fucking idiot ,period, any German pilot got 2 points for doing so . and fuckall to do with how many crew were aboard , re the twats comment re B17
@@Scatpack21 its a fact lol
Guy Gibson..
Um...Guy Gibson died flying a Mosquito.
MarsFKA It has recently been suggested that GG's Mozzie may have been shot down by friendly fire. A British AA gunner, shortly before he died, said that he shot down an aircraft at the time and place that GG's plane crashed. He said he thought he was shooting at a German plane but the time,date and location strongly suggests it was GG's plane.
There are different theories about why Gibson crashed. One is that he was not sufficiently familiar with the Mosquito - he had very few hours on the type - and ran out of fuel because, in the dark he hadn't switched over to full fuel tanks.
MarsFKA That was the theory until the Lancaster gunner's log book was made public - shortly before the gunner's death - the location and time of the downing of a twin-engined plane do coincide with Gibson's crash.
Was that friendly fire from a British AA (anti-aircraft) gunner or a Lancaster gunner? Your two posts don't coincide on that point.
Sorry, but it's not "Mozzie", but "Mossie"
NOT down under mate. When you have the ONLY ONE still flying you can say it pretty much however you want.
"Mossy" =unsafe losing an engine on takeoff. Gad Zooks.
Not unsafe, that was the P 38 which would flip over if it lost one engine.
In fact the mosquito retained full aerobatic capability on one engine. Hilariously over engineered out of plywood and British tenacity.
@@barrierodliffe4155 So, under certain conditions, would the Mosquito. There's a very interesting interview with Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, who probably test flew more different types of aircraft than anyone else:
th-cam.com/video/d9Hjne0OA4w/w-d-xo.html
In it, he discussed a project where they investigated flying Mosquitos on and off carriers and they found - testing it first at a safe altitude - that if an engine were to fail on approach, the Mosquito would go inverted in about two seconds.
You may have already seen the video. If not, have a look. It's very interesting.
@@MarsFKA Under certain conditions maybe but the Mosquito had the more reliable Rolls Royce Merlin and the P38 was far more likely to crash if or when an engine failed.
Did he just say that the p51 can't dogfight ? Well that's utter bs
The P 51 can dogfight but not well, it had poor performance
Mustang was good bomber escort, not good dogfighter.
The P-51 was an "energy fighter" as were the German fighters. They were equally matched for dog fighting. The Spitfire could out turn them because it had more wing area relative to weight, but when the FW-190 was introduced, it was downing 4 Spitfires for every FW-190 the Spitfires got - this lasted about a year until the British introduced the Mk-IX Spitfire with the two stage supercharger. When the Brits tried to dogfight the Zero with the Spitfire they were not successful.
@@danzervos7606 Regarding Spitfires trying to dogfight Zeros, as a teenager I read "Bluey", the story of Australian Spitfire ace Keith William "Bluey" Truscott. He flew in Europe against the Luftwaffe until being posted back to Australia in 1942. I have forgotten most of the book but I remember the shock that he and his fellow Spitfire pilots from the the European Theatre of Operations received when they tried to dogfight Zeros as if they were Bf-109s. More than a few experienced former ETO pilots died before they changed their tactics against an agile aircraft that was beyond anything that they had previously experienced.
@@MarsFKA I remember reading that the British couldn't accept that the Japanese could make a plane the could best the Hurricane let alone the Spitfire, but then early in the war it was a court martial offense to break away from a swirling dog fight, an engagement which favored the Zero.
You did nothing, what was flying!???
Keith Skilling was talking about flying the aircraft. The headline is accurate. If it bores you listening to an expert, click away to something else that better suits your attention span.
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