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Only Flying De Haviland Mosquito Arrives!
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Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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I built a model of this as a kid.Am I safe in assuming you will post more photos?
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The photo link I posted will be updated by the museum!
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Originally Posted by
Bob Womack
The photo link I posted will be updated by the museum!
Bob
Thanks!
Since the Burma spitfires did not pan out this will be a nice substitute to watch the progress of reassembly.
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M-A-G-N-I-F-I-C-E-N-T. The only word to describe it. If I remember correctly, I seem to recall that one of our ex RNZAF Armourers at Ngaruawahia, Frank Sculley said that there were a few Mosquitops in derelict condition at the RNZAF station close by, on the road to Hamilton. I think it was RAF TeRapa (correct me if I'm wrong about the base someone.....) A few were used as static aircraft, filmed there, for the film 633 Squadron. I expect that they were just scrap then........
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Cliff Robertson, the actor, bought a Mosquito after filming "633 Squadron". I know he still had it in the late 1970s. What happened to it?
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Our local aviation museum, the Military Aviation Museum,
A bit off course, but I saw their P40 before restoration. Most of it was in wadded up chunks no bigger than a chair. It was shot down and plunged nose first into the tundra at great speed! Can't imagine ANY of the sheetmetal is WWII vintage. Not that it really matters- it flys!
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http://www.airportjournals.com/Displ...?varID=0406003
Intresting reading on Cliff Robertson and the Mosquito.
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Mosquitos don't last well out in the open, being made of wood.
They co-opted people from all sorts of trades to build them up the road from here, my late friend's father was a piano cabinet maker and got hauled in to do it.
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partners tomorrow. It will arrive in three shipping containers. There are pictures from it being crated up HERE. The plane was built in 1945, bought by a farmer and then left to rot in a field. Restoration began eight years ago.
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