The world has another airworthy Mosquito

[JerryEAL]

Merlin engines! Is there anything they can't do?

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[Gil Boyd]

The varied armament she could carry was outstanding, here's the list:

STANDARD:
4 x 7.7mm Browning machine guns in nose
4 x 20mm Hispano cannons mounted under the nose

OPTIONAL (Model Dependent):
Between 500lb and 4,000lb of internal stores in bomb bay (reconnaissance equipment, specialized mission equipment, leaflets, munitions, extra fuel, etc...).

1 x 57mm autocannon in nose (in place of 4 x cannons).
4 x 7.7mm Browning machine guns in underfuselage gunpack.
2 x 250lb / 500lb bombs underwing
8 x High-Explosive, Armor-Piercing rockets underwing.
1 x Torpedo externally held under the fuselage

Amazing for a 99% wooden aircraft, shows what the Merlins power had to lift it all!

[GeeRam]

The varied armament she could carry was outstanding, here's the list:

STANDARD:
4 x 7.7mm Browning machine guns in nose
4 x 20mm Hispano cannons mounted under the nose

OPTIONAL (Model Dependent):
Between 500lb and 4,000lb of internal stores in bomb bay (reconnaissance equipment, specialized mission equipment, leaflets, munitions, extra fuel, etc...).

1 x 57mm autocannon in nose (in place of 4 x cannons).
4 x 7.7mm Browning machine guns in underfuselage gunpack.
2 x 250lb / 500lb bombs underwing
8 x High-Explosive, Armor-Piercing rockets underwing.
1 x Torpedo externally held under the fuselage

Amazing for a 99% wooden aircraft, shows what the Merlins power had to lift it all!

PZ474 has been restored in the markings of a Banff Strike Wing anti-shipping aircraft, and includes a complete set of underwing rails and a full set of 60lb RP's to hang on them...



As a further point of interest, the Merlins engines fitted are the original pair of engines fitted on the production line when it was originally built.....

[Charlie303]

Merlin engines! Is there anything they can't do?

Well, negative G for one thing (some of them anyway). That's why we don't have a Mossie in the UK.

Anyway, lovely to see another one in the air!

[Charlie303]

At the IAT, Greenham Common, 1981 (I think).

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[mrclark303]

I remember that display well Charlie, including the usual spirited vertical climb out from the irreplaceable English Electric Lightning!

An overcast day, but the Lightning roared down the runway, tucked up the gear, carried on at low level and rotated into the vertical right in front of me, I vividly remember the Lightnings roar and and the blue hole punched straight through the low cloud as the aircraft accelerated into the heavens like a home sick angel!

Wonderful memories....

[Charlie303]

This one maybe?

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After it's flight (obviously!)