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    Quote Originally Posted by JerryEAL View Post
    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 UKicon.

    Anyway, lovely to see another one in the air!

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    Our Sadly Departed Mosquito...

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

    Attachment 98931Attachment 98932

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    >>>Perhaps the closest the US came to having a comparable aircraft would be the B-25 Mitchell? <<<

    Probable the A-26 Invader powered by 2 P&W R2800s and more heavily armed than the Mosquito.
    Some versions of the A-26 were armed with 14 fixed forward firing .50 cal BMGS

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    The closest thing that the US had to a De-Havilland Mosquito during WW2 was a De-Havilland Mosquito, albeit in small numbers.

    De Havilland DH 98 Mosquito > National Museum of the US Air Forceâ„¢ > Display

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    Quote Originally Posted by ireload2 View Post
    Some versions of the A-26 were armed with 14 fixed forward firing .50 cal BMGS
    Yes, those were really something. No bombs, just big bins of ammo running through trays. Imagine the strike on target? 14 x 900RPM, X duration of burst...
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    Charlie303,
    That mossy is shown as being written off on the RAF lists in 1996. Was it reborn after the crash? Appreciate the photo believed to be 1981.

    Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito T Mk III G-ASKH, 21 Jul 1996
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    Hi Gil,
    I hadn't realised so much time had passed between my taking the photos at Greenham Common IAT in 1981 and when it crashed in 1996. Don't recall hearing about it being rebuilt after the crash. Great shame.
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    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....
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    This one maybe?

    Attachment 98986

    After it's flight (obviously!)

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    The very one Charlie! A 5 squadron F3, they always used F3's for display work due to their better power to weight ratio.

    Thanks for the pic mate, pure nostalgia!

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