I've been reading Mosquito by Rowland White and, although I was already aware that this aircraft played a very significant role in WW2, the book has highlighted to me that the contribution it made to victory was even more significant than I first thought. With that in mind, I went hunting for movies featuring this fabulous aircraft.
I found this.
Some closing thoughts. It's interesting that today, modern aircraft technology is moving to the use of carbon fibre composites and low radar signature stealth technology. The Mosquito used wooden composites for strength at a very light weight. The wood also gave it a very small radar signature and it was often able to slip past German radar undetected. Although the Focke Wolfe 190 could, in the right conditions, deal with the Mosquito, it wasn't until the introduction of the jet powered Me 262 and the rocket powered Me 163, that the nazis finally created fighters able to out perform the wooden wonder from de Haviland.
And finally - all I have learned about this magnificently designed machine has led me to the conclusion that it is positively criminal that no Mosquito is present in the RAF Battle Of Britain flight. And, before anybody says 'but it didn't take part in the battle of Britain', well neither did the Lancaster but there is one included in the flight. The last Mosquitos were retired from the RAF in the mid 1960s so, if anybody had shown any forward thinking, inclusion might have been possible.
I found this.
Some closing thoughts. It's interesting that today, modern aircraft technology is moving to the use of carbon fibre composites and low radar signature stealth technology. The Mosquito used wooden composites for strength at a very light weight. The wood also gave it a very small radar signature and it was often able to slip past German radar undetected. Although the Focke Wolfe 190 could, in the right conditions, deal with the Mosquito, it wasn't until the introduction of the jet powered Me 262 and the rocket powered Me 163, that the nazis finally created fighters able to out perform the wooden wonder from de Haviland.
And finally - all I have learned about this magnificently designed machine has led me to the conclusion that it is positively criminal that no Mosquito is present in the RAF Battle Of Britain flight. And, before anybody says 'but it didn't take part in the battle of Britain', well neither did the Lancaster but there is one included in the flight. The last Mosquitos were retired from the RAF in the mid 1960s so, if anybody had shown any forward thinking, inclusion might have been possible.