Mosquito: Close Calls
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Brought to you by:
The Calgary Mosquito Society
www.calgarymosquitosociety.com
Financial Supporters:
The Calgary Foundation
The City of Calgary
Veterans Affairs Canada
Production by: Pan Productions Ltd.
www.panproductions.com
FANTASTIC----WHAT HEROES
What a great aircraft. Its a great testament that even such unexperience aircrew could operate it.
Really enjoying this series. Many thanks for your efforts in bringing this story to us. Great to hear from the aircrew and also of an unknown outfit Spartan Air. Good luck with your restoration.
Thank you very much.
I'd like to be in a pub with these guys and just listen to the story's 👏👏👏
Thank you
Happy Birthday to the RCAF. 96 YRS young today. 1 / April / 2020
" SIC ITUR AD ASTRA "
Those few, those brave few, those few defied the biggest war machine in history.
Une pure merveille.
the mighty mossie would bite you if mishandled...just like the old/bold pilots said. they don't tell you this side of her on the history channel...still i know the 98 was dynamite in the hands of the right pilot.....B-26s took their share of newcomers to the cemetery too.
1:35 *The Mosquito could achieve nearly 400 mph but only at 22,000 feet"*
Incorrect.
@@alasdairblack393 Mosquito Model XV
This aircraft has extended wings, a low pressure cabin, four blade metal propellers, four 0.303" Browning guns in an external fairing below the fuselage and is intended for high altitude night fighter work. Short tests to determine its climb and level speed performance were made at the normal load of 17,465 lb. with the centre of gravity at 7.0" aft of datum; an assessment of the principal handling qualities was obtained.
At normal maximum climbing conditions the time to reach the service ceiling of 43,000 ft. is 32½ minutes; it is possible to climb about 800 ft. above this by closing the radiator flaps if care is taken with regard to the engine temperatures. The top speeds are 397 m.p.h. at 16,500 ft. in M.S. gear and 408 m.p.h. at 27,800 in F.S. gear. Owing to unreliable gauges no accurate assessment of the cooling can be obtained but the indications are that the maximum allowable coolant temperature may be exceeded under E.S.M. conditions whilst the oil cooling is satisfactory for T.S.M. conditions.
Some of the Merlins used were tuned to deliver maximum power and speed at high altitude (e.g. those on bomber and PR variants), while others gave their best performance at low to medium altitude. Fighter bombers versions, for instance, had relatively poor performance above 20,000 feet ASL, but that was not the environment in which they were intended to operate.
Saving the world from fascism. M.
I bet their minds were concentrating on the brave LGBQT+, feminist, socialist, pc, snow flake, trans-pander, non binary heroes they'd be saving in the future generations.