Got a Mozzie airfix kit for Christmas from my Nan in about 1991. Has been my favourite warplane ever since. Utterly enchanting machine

My wife grandfather was a mechanic on the mosoqito he said it was amazing aircraft

I still find it quite extraordinary that whereas the largest bomb that could be carried internally by the B17 (four engined, up to 11 crew) was 2000lb, with a standard load carried on a raid to Berlin being 4000lb and the Mosquito (twin engined with two crew)~ when equipped with a modified bomb bay ~ could carry a 4000lb ‘blockbuster’ bomb to Berlin. The Mossie was a truly outstanding aircraft and gave rise to perhaps the greatest piston- engine fighter that never made it into service in WW2, the de Havilland Hornet and Sea Hornet which was probably the legendary Eric ’Winkle’ Brown’s favourite display aircraft. The power to weight ratio was so great that his party-piece was to loop the aircraft and then loop it again ~ but for the second loop, both props were feathered. Great man, great aircraft.

Best plane of the war imo

One of only two people who achieved anything notable to come from my hometown was a mosquito ace.

Played this plane on War thunder and very much enjoyed it. Thank you for making this documentary!

@freakyflow

3 ай бұрын

Then just think of the Mosquito "Tse Tse" 57mm auto firing Cannon with a 6 pound shell firing 1 per second ...about 4 rounds side on Or from behind be able to kill a Panzer IV ......Grandfather done just that near Holland ....And was partial credited for forcing a sub to remain topside And then sunk by coastal command Not bad for a plane made from Canadian wood And Cabinet makers

The Mosquito was a private de elopement by the De Havilland company and NOT by the RAF of the Allies

Hope many Mosquito pilots can see this show ☆

@jeramiebradford1

4 ай бұрын

I'm afraid there aren't many mosquito pilots left, they would be around 100 years old, the ones who haven't passed on

Interesting, I had never heard of that raid on the prison, or the other building before.

This is an EXCELLENT documentary! Watch it! I have, many times!

@jtaylorb88

4 ай бұрын

I'm on my 4th time lol

@johnrodgers8457

4 ай бұрын

This video is only 8 hours old. You guys sound like bots.

@jtaylorb88

4 ай бұрын

@@johnrodgers8457 it's on other channels too

@jtaylorb88

4 ай бұрын

@@johnrodgers8457 kzread.info/dash/bejne/hniOzq-Lhtredbw.htmlsi=vmHC3jjs-UWKtAdk

@jtaylorb88

4 ай бұрын

@@johnrodgers8457 try 2 years ago this one alone.

Fifth restored Mosquito ready at AvSpecs, Ardmore, New Zealand! This one going to the UK I think! Also a barn-find from farmer John Smith's collection at Mapua, Sth Island, NZ, has been restored by the Omaka Aviation Heritage Trust to static/taxiing condition! Good to see the Operation Jericho - Brit Aussie and Kiwi squadrons all involved!

Very well done. A must watch.

Impressive and informative documentary, thank you

Stiffy activated!..... My fav aircraft of the war! 😍

It was composite It was ahead of it's time

@huiyinghong3073

4 ай бұрын

Imagine fitting this wooden plane with a JET engine.

@yankee_tango

Ай бұрын

It was stealth before we even knew what it was. The Germans could not see it on the radar because it was made of wood and thusly the return was rather small it looked like static on the screen.

Norm Christie the Goat

A very good documentary.

An excellent and informative documentary about wooden made fighter bombers ( Mosquito) by British aviation technology

Very very interesting.

This is just old documentaries re-hashed into a "new" one. Lots of these cropping up recently, after all there's only so much ww2 footage and topics, most of which have been done to death already.

He sounds just like Paul Whitehouse ❤😂

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Was the Propellers also made of wood?

I'm learning about ww2 planes

so the Mosoqito could against the Jets like 262 , isn't it

I wonder if a wooden plane like that has any military utility (in avoiding radar discovery) and lowering our taxes too!

@huiyinghong3073

4 ай бұрын

Imagine fitting this wooden plane with a JET engine.

@johndewey6358

4 ай бұрын

@@huiyinghong3073 That would be awesome and very fast. Probably, the sharp friction edges have to be covered by metals or heat proof carbon material so it does not burn out and catch fire.

@tsl0073

4 ай бұрын

I think I read an article last year about Ukrainians using Australian supplied drones that were made of cardboard. They were absurdly cheap. Waterproof too. It’s pretty cool that something so simple and so effective. So I guess they have utility in today’s world if you think about how much more drones are being used than traditional attack fighter jets these days, at least in eastern Europe. Especially interesting how cheap they are to mass produce. Or frankly cheap to produce period. Some of these things take out multi multi million dollar targets. I guess for some missions, wood is good 🤷🏻‍♂️!

@johndewey6358

4 ай бұрын

@@tsl0073 I agree.

Wooden Wonder...

@huiyinghong3073

4 ай бұрын

Imagine fitting this wooden plane with a JET engine.

@2-Hands

4 ай бұрын

@@huiyinghong3073 It would not have lasted that long, at high speeds the Wood would start Cracking. Look at the videos of when the RAF had captured some He-162 and were Testing them afterthe war. A number of Test Pilots were killed when the Wood started Cracking in high speeds.

@huiyinghong3073

4 ай бұрын

@@2-Hands How would have a He 162 fare against this plane? Which do u think is a better plane?

Interesting. Many Germans never knew what hit them.

@huiyinghong3073

4 ай бұрын

Imagine fitting this wooden plane with a JET engine.

Nice story, but 100% lifted from another channel.

Imagine fitting this wooden plane with a JET engine.

@manuelmencia8919

4 ай бұрын

The frame would catch fire at the speed we travel today

@huiyinghong3073

4 ай бұрын

@@manuelmencia8919 How would have a He 162 fare against this plane? Which do u think is a better plane?

@manuelmencia8919

4 ай бұрын

off the top of my head, the He 162 was the one the Allis found in Berlin that never got off the ground. yes, it was made of wood and had beautiful maneuverability like the mosquito but I don't see much after that. The Mosquito was a two-engine fighter bommer mix; while the He 162 was purely a fighter plane and their designs show it. I am going to leave maneuverability up to the pilots. Even if they did get the 162 into production I doubt they would change the war due to there not being enough of them. If we are doing a sandbox ESC war game of one-on-one. I would bet on the He 162 just cause jet plane and it's only a fighter, not a hybrid. @@huiyinghong3073

Indio. .mara!7

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No the Allies did not developed the Mosquito it was the British. Stop stealing false valour.

@graemewatson7354

2 ай бұрын

The narrator is Canadian, and given the number of mosquitoes made in Canada during the war I'm willing to give him a pass

@maryholder3795

Ай бұрын

​​@@graemewatson7354 the designer was R. E. Bishop, who was a British engineer who was the chief designer of the de Havilland. They designed a plane made out of wooden composites. The company then originally produced the Mosquito, which went onto be one of the most famous aircraft of the Second World War. Some of the woods used in the plane was Canadian wood. She was in use with the RAF and Canadian airforce and one more airforce.

my man its the year 2024 stop taking videos of your tv nobody wants to watch a 45 minute video of scan lines

Again with the stupid AI images. The mosquito on the right only has Invasion stripes on the bottom of its tail, wrong. The mosquito on the left has some sort of stupid radial engine and the propeller isn't even attached on the starboard side

I stopped watching. Too many advertisements. Marked a dislike!

@michaelkuntsi5086

4 ай бұрын

Agreed but that is the fault of KZread not the producers of the documentary.

P38 better