Manufacturing a Wooden War Plane... in 1944

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This is an incredible video. It's about the manufacturing of the de Havilland Mosquito during World War II. A Marine buddy sent the video so I looked into it further. From Wikipedia...

The Mosquito was known affectionately as the "Mossie" to its crews and was also known as "The Wooden Wonder" or "The Timber Terror" as the bulk of the aircraft was made of laminated plywood.
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I did a search and there doesn't appear to be any on the FAA registry. There has to be a few flying around the world somewhere. All I found was one being restored in Australia.
 

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KennyFlys said:
This is an incredible video. It's about the manufacturing of the de Havilland Mosquito during World War II. ...I did a search and there doesn't appear to be any on the FAA registry.
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N9909F is on the registry, but this page says was sent to Sweden years ago.

Ron Wanttaja
 
wanttaja said:
N9909F is on the registry, but this page says was sent to Sweden years ago.

Ron Wanttaja
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That registration shows as revoked. It's too bad it left the country. Thanks for the link, Ron. I'm glad there are a good many still around. Hopefully most of them are still flying.
 
Kermit Weeks' Mosquito is in the EAA museum in OSH. I don't think it has flown in years, but when it went there it flew in IIRC.
 
vontresc said:
Kermit Weeks' Mosquito is in the EAA museum in OSH. I don't think it has flown in years, but when it went there it flew in IIRC.
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It has been over 13 years since I have been to OSH however it was flying when I was there. That was when I decided the only thing that sounded better than a Merlin is twin Merlins in Sync. At the time I was pretty interested in Merlin engines as I was helping design the Thunder Mustang.

Brian
CFIIG/ASEL
 
There's a Mosquito in USAAF markings at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Some US squadrons used Mosquitos for weather reconaissance and as night fighters during WW2.
 
brcase said:
It has been over 13 years since I have been to OSH however it was flying when I was there. That was when I decided the only thing that sounded better than a Merlin is twin Merlins in Sync. At the time I was pretty interested in Merlin engines as I was helping design the Thunder Mustang.

Brian
CFIIG/ASEL
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Some years ago my office was directly under the approach path for runway 15R at SBA. One afternoon I heard the unmistakable sound of a Merlin going over - but wait! it sounded like TWO Merlins!. I had to go look. Guess what - it was no doubt one of the world's last flying Heinkel HE-111s (actually a CASA 2111E - made in Spain after WWI with RR Merlins). I later read that that aircraft had been General Franco's personal airplane - and also heard that it subsequently crashed.

Dave

Here is a link:http://www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/CASA-2111E.htm
 
cessna182b said:
Some years ago my office was directly under the approach path for runway 15R at SBA. One afternoon I heard the unmistakable sound of a Merlin going over - but wait! it sounded like TWO Merlins!. I had to go look. Guess what - it was no doubt one of the world's last flying Heinkel HE-111s (actually a CASA 2111E - made in Spain after WWI with RR Merlins). I later read that that aircraft had been General Franco's personal airplane - and also heard that it subsequently crashed.

Dave

Here is a link:http://www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/CASA-2111E.htm
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Tony, you NEED one!
a massive five-engined variant, the He-111Z, was used to tow combat gliders.
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