Made in New Zealand. America's Cup yachts are not the only things we are good at building.

Beautiful 😍

$12/13 000,000, NZ could build you one all for your self

Any lovingly restored piece of heritage machinery, be it car, or plane, or whatever, is a source of strange joy for me.

Fabulous!!! That's brought tears to a few eyes here in the UK. Thank you for posting.

Not only the most beautiful aircraft ever made but most likly the most succesful combat aircraft made also. Its exploits are legendary. A true masterpiece this plan is.

That was one of the most beautiful things I've seen, and heard, in a long time. The sound of a Merlin often gets me misty eyed but to see a Mosquito flying again was breath taking. Its always been my favourite WW2 Aircraft. Thank you so much for posting that, and well done to the team for keeping the "mossie" alive. Long may she fly!

She is absolutely beautiful and a credit to Avspecs Ltd. I was lucky enough to witness her maiden flight at Ardmore aerodrome before her dismantlement and shipping to the USA. Beautiful machine!

What sounds better than a Rolls Royce Merlin? Ans: TWO Rolls Royce Merlins! What a beauty.

Thanks Brother, everytime I hear 1 of them old Engines crank up, I remember, Ole Strat, sceamin in my ear... Tailwinds...

The 'Mossie' was a truly unique aircraft and exactly what was needed in the UK in WWII in late 1940. Exploiting carpenters' and cabinet makers' underused skills and the available natural resources in wartime Britain was a touch of genius by De Havilland. He also understood that having a very fast and agile aircraft negated the need for gun turrets and crews of 6 and 7 hence just a Pilot and Navigator and made the whole aircraft easier and therefore faster to produce. That it became the fastest (pre-jet) aircraft in WWII, was a highly accurate medium bomber, an exceptional photo-reconnaissance platform, a Pathfinder and could deliver the same 4,000Ib bombload to Berlin as a B-17 but be back in UK before the B-17s got to Berlin sums up what the Mosquito delivered to the Allied Air Forces in WWII. Well done the Kiwis for restoring this original aircraft to the air and well done FHCAM for providing the funding to do it.

@MrDaiseymay

7 жыл бұрын

1chish---you just about covered it all--but lets mention anti-submarine work, precision low-level strikes at Nazi headquarters etc AND some were fitted with a 6 pounder gun that could knock out a frigate.

@1chish

7 жыл бұрын

Philip - well yes indeed as you say. For once we can say it was a Jack of all Trades and Master of them All... There is a sadly true story of a Squadron of Mossies tasked to attack a Gestapo building in the Netherlands. So they went in low. At speed. Sadly they were misinformed of the height of the lamposts in that town. One was hit, the aircraft crashed into a building at a street junction and tragically it was a school. Many children were killed and terribly injured. But the local Dutch people did not blame the RAF for ONE minute as they knew how brave those guys were flying that low. Unlike today when the first reaction is 'who can I blame and get my com-pen-say-shun'

@alexnielsen4617

7 жыл бұрын

Just a little correction. The Gestapo headquarter building was in the middle of Copenhagen, Denmark. The school that got hit by the Mossie was "The French School" in Copenhagen. The rest of the storie is correct.

@1chish

7 жыл бұрын

Alex - Ah good thanks for the correction. Thats the price of not checking a story when someone relays it to you...

@1chish

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew - Shut the fuck up with the shouting and ranting crap. I said: "There is a sadly true story of a Squadron of Mossies tasked......." A fucking 'story' where I got the location wrong. Wow. Lock me the fuck up .....

I was gifted to have such teachers, ...Keep the Faith Alive,

Very nice to see another "Mossie" in the air in the U.S. Also looking forward to the day Kermit Weeks gets his in the air also. I just hope I live long enough as he has so many irons in the fire. LOL. I like the night ops paint scheme. Rare on a Mosquito. Very attractive. Would be really cool to see it in formation with a Lancaster or two. Ah, we can dream. Very good footage considering a Corsair was in the way. Boy, that's a problem we all wish we had. Anyway, great footage, thank you for posting and God Bless from Florida.

No one I'd rather have at the controls of my newly-restored Mosquito. Now all I need is a newly-restored Mosquito!

In a world where, 'If something looks right, then it probably is right', the Mosquito stands out as a beautiful aeroplane

@MrDaiseymay

6 жыл бұрын

Two British manufacturers had that philosophy, Jaguar Cars, and De Havilland Aircraft Company

I've been waiting for this for a while. Epic!

MAGNIFICENT! Great photog, as always J. Fortenbacher! I missed this by one day[..stopped by Thurs. to see it go up & was greeted bother Zero instead--no harm, no foul..] Looking forward to the official July festival flight.

Beatifull plane

Nice! Always great to see the old birds.

Nothing sounds like a Mossie! Beautiful aeroplane!! :O)

A beautiful and brilliant aeroplane.

So cool!

A beautiful aeroplane

@Mark13091961

7 жыл бұрын

maria cornwallis my thoughts exactly!

@henrikcarlsen1881

7 жыл бұрын

Always preferred this, even to the Spit or Beaufighter or P-51 or the Corsair or the FW190 or the Hayate or ... Guess I'm a geek, but the Mosquito is my favorite.

@MrDaiseymay

6 жыл бұрын

YOU HAVE MARVELOUS TASTE.

G'day, Yay Team ! Glorious.... ;-p Ciao !

A work of art.

Totally cool! TFS

@fight2flyphoto

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It looks like I had about 10 cups of coffee... hopefully I got the jitters out of my system and can actually pan decently today. :-)

Congratulations!

AV specs nz do a great job

It's interesting that Goering became obsessed with dealing with a seemingly invincible Mosquito over Germany, the Luftwaffe night fighter units apparently had no aircraft, with perhaps the Ju88S and the too few in number He219 that could deal with the increasing use of the Mosquito in the long-range interceptor role. However the situation over the Bay of Biscay was a different story. V Gruppe KG 40 ( Ju88C ) was given strict instructions to avoid battle with the Mosquito at all costs. In an effort to address the situation a Gruppe of Fw190s was moved to the coast and began to take a heavy toll of the Mosquito, forcing their suspension from operations over the bay at one stage. As good as they were, the Mosquito just couldn't out perform a nimble, well armed single seat fighter.

best twin engine ever !!

What a fighter, what a bomber what a fighter bomber. Brits loved em, the Boche hated em.

can you bring this to fairford uk. we lost british mossie in 1996.

I believe this must be the aircraft that Paul Allen purchased from the RAF Museum, Hendon (where they'd cut one outer wing off to adapt to their display position). It was stored for some years at Jeremy Moore's fantastic workshop in Martham, Norfolk, UK but always looked like a good candidate for a rebuild. It was Jeremy, of course who rebuilt the collection's FW190 and Me262 which were also the most stunning rebuilds.

@morrisanderson818

3 ай бұрын

This was built in NZ,at Ardmore,by AV spec

@canberra3

3 ай бұрын

@@morrisanderson818 rebuilt by them after the history I mention above.

As well as using a resource not in short supply, although I think much of the timber may have been imported from the USA and Canada, it used a labour force ignored by other industries, is carpenters.

A legendary airplane and quite unique - constructed mostly of wood (plywood). Two questions, if anyone knows... Would the wood construction have made it harder to pick up on radar? Why did the designers place the wing so far forward?

Jason, In house test pilots or did Steve Hinton come up due to his dual engine warbird hours and experience? Great to see the "Mossie" get some air!

@fight2flyphoto

7 жыл бұрын

bob dyer Steve Hinton is their test pilot. he comes up for all the newly finished restorations and some of the flight demonstrations.

@bobdyer422

7 жыл бұрын

NICE! Steve is a first rate stick and rudder man{his brother and son are no slouches either}

Great video Jason!!!!!!!! Now, who owns the Corsair in this video? It has Yellow trim on the final, and the prop boss.

@fight2flyphoto

7 жыл бұрын

John Osbourn Thanks! That Corsair is Flying Heritage Collection's newest restoration! Had first post restoration flight a week ago down in Texas and arrived here yesterday and had it's debut show today.

The Mosquito wasn't the only wooden fighter in WW2. The Russians built wooden fighters eg LAGG-3 to save on aluminium and other scarce-in-wartime metals, but I don't think they were as successful as the Mosquito. German fighter pilots lucky enough to shoot down a 'mossie' were awarded two 'kills', such was the reputation of this aircraft. The German Focke-Wulf company designed a similar aircraft (Ta 154) but only a few were produced.

@paladin56

7 жыл бұрын

Could be right there. The Lavochkin LaGG-3 was nicknamed the 'Varnished Guaranteed Coffin' by Soviet pilots (translated it has the same initials as LaGG). The Lavochkin La-5FN was a different matter though. One of the best fighters of WW2.

Apologies for my naivete but can anyone tell me why there are only five 'exhaust pipes' visible (7:22) given that a Mosquito has V12 engines. I just had a look around KZread and there are five on other Mosquitoes, too. Six or three on a Spitfire. Is the sixth exhaust pipe on a Mosquito ducted to somewhere else?

@fight2flyphoto

7 жыл бұрын

Alan Grant Good question! exhausts 5 and 6 are combined due to the close proximity to the coolers inboard of the engines.

Who else thought there was a Spitfire in the foreground in the opening shot?

where is E'gap?

great aircraft ,any being made airworthy in the Uk ?

@SamanthaGuttesen

6 жыл бұрын

zzhawker yes, there are plans to incorporate the remains of a crashed mosquito from RAF Coltishall, into an airworthy example.

@SamanthaGuttesen

6 жыл бұрын

Called 'The Peoples Mosquito'

I'm not sure if this is correct or not, but I heard if a German pilot shot down a Mossie it counted as 2 kills

Mosquitoes were glued and screwed together. How well does the glue hold up after all these years?

@MrDaiseymay

6 жыл бұрын

During the War, modern style water resistance glue's hadn't been invented, like the huge range of Polymer Glues today. ALL materials were in short supply. The Mosguito's existence is owed to the fact that Britain had no aluminum to spare, but thousands of Trees, near the De Havilland factory, and huge furniture maker's with skilled woodsmen, doing nothing. ( very little furniture making was allowed) the whole thing came together miraculously. First of all, the rate of plane loss didn't allow for thoughts of long term survival of ANY plane. Post war, thousands of near new planes were either sold to smaller countries, or scrapped for re-use. Of the few Mossie's that were sent to the far East , some began to fall apart because of the monsoon rains , high humidity, and exposure to both. The plane hadn't been intended for those conditions. Today of course, ALL planes are subjected to every kind of condition during and after construction.

Just as well it was going faster than 15mph as would not have got off the ground!!!! other than that great to a Mossie in the air again.

Isn't this plane partly made of wood or something?

@glynnwright1699

7 жыл бұрын

More than partly...

Tidy Flying. Great to see the expertise that New Zealand (where?) engineers are able to bring to quality restorations of 'planes, cars etc. Google Omaka for a look at what Peter Jackson's personal museum is about. Then look further, Wings Over Wanaka.You will work it out from there.

Say it with wood.

Looks a bit wooden.

@glynnwright1699

7 жыл бұрын

God's own plastic...

@fasteddie406

7 жыл бұрын

would have said natures plastic myself.

@glynnwright1699

7 жыл бұрын

It is a quotation from the designer of the wooden Marcos GT, Frank Costin, who also worked on the Mosquito.

@MrDaiseymay

6 жыл бұрын

well it gave me Wood.

Don't tell me the Germans had better aircraft, this, the Lanc and the later hawkers were the business.