MISSING PLANS

[Gil Boyd]

Wouldn't it be nice if all the missing weapons documents and plans of WW2 turned up like these did in such detail on microfish??

WW2 Mosquito aircraft blueprints found at Airbus factory - BBC News

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[Aussie48]

Wow what a find

[Flying10uk]

It's lucky that someone realised what they were before they went into the skip. The group that are trying to recreate a Sterling bomber cockpit/fuselage section have no original drawings to work with, I believe.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

What you can't just Google it?
Tongue planted firmly in cheek.

[Flying10uk]

It's amazing what nearly gets thrown into skips, what actually gets thrown into skips and what gets pulled out of skips.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Watched a program where a fellow almost threw out five million dollars worth of baseball cards found in his Aunts attic . Whole stacks of turn of the century cards some of which only a few were known to exist.

[CINDERS]

If they build one that would be great apparently there is a "Mossie" in a barn somewhere in NZ'ed I heard whilst over there on hol's 7 years ago has had the outer wings removed so it fitted in the barn by all counts the owner starts up the Merlin's occasionally lots of stuff has been found in barns take the bloke who brought a farm with a gigantic concrete shed on it that was locked no one bid on the farm, when they got into the barn it was jammed packed with rare and vintage cars the realized value from memory was $20 million.

As a footer;
I hope they do build a mosquito.
As the glue they used I am unsure how long it was meant to last as the service expectancy of a WWII air craft was measured in hours we know some lasted for years & years but in the scheme of things they had to keep building them to make up for all lost causes.
The mossie nearly did not get the nod from the MoD and it was quite the battle by De-Haviland to get the prototype built for evaluation when they did there were some issues discovered in the test flights one of which instead of a nearly full wing aileron they split it just behind the engine nacelle but other than that it performed beautifully beyond expectations, it went on to a brilliant career as a Pathfinder/Bomber, Night-fighter & Reconnaissance plane "Cats Eyes" Cunningham flew one as a night fighter pilot Britain's highest scoring one.
It was the Germans most feared adversary, what happened was they were placed in the bomber streams to stooge as a bomber with I think Monica radar so the German night-fighter thinking it was attacking a lumbering Lanc found itself being attacked by a nimble fighter/bomber armed with 4 x 303 & 4 x 20mm that blew them out of the sky quite literally.
The Germans respected the plane so much they had built a prototype of the "Mossie" based on reverse engineering from downed Mosquito's in fact it was ready for testing when bomber command unknowingly bombed and destroyed the only place making the glue "Tigofilm" (Tee-go-film) all the formula's were lost as well as the equipment to make the glue if they had succeeded in getting them into production then the night "Battle of the Ruhr" may have seen bomber command losing allot more aircraft/crews.

[Paul S.]

As someone who appreciates the aircraft, the technology that went into building them, and the artistry of engineering drawings I would pay good money for frame-able A4 or A3 copies of some of the Mosquito drawings. Admittedly I would have to fight the wife for wall space to hang them - that is, after I convinced her they really are works of art.

[henry r]

I think they may be missing a few bits of info in the article... like the guy in NZ that has built a fuselage buck and turned out at least two airframes inc one that is flying in the US with kermit weeks.

[old rockape]

Talking of throwing things out. When clearing my father's house I made sure I kept all the old photographs. This one I dismisses as just an aerial landscape until I looked at it with a magnifying glass. Three mosquitos, possibly Belgium, winter 1945, 418 sqn City of Edmonton RCAF.

PS: the old lad is still around