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Eric Stevens wrote:
The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see
that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting
to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next
hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next
hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual
conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years.
--


They just restored a Mosquito to flying condition in the U.K., and there
is a photograph on line of it flying next to a Lockheed P-38.
Fascinating bit of history.

Mort Linder

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:17:46 -0400, Mort wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:
The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see
that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting
to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next
hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next
hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual
conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years.
--


They just restored a Mosquito to flying condition in the U.K., and there
is a photograph on line of it flying next to a Lockheed P-38.
Fascinating bit of history.

Do you know which aircraft that is, or who owns it, or who restored
it? I'm just trying to identify it.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7153_DxO.jpg may be
of some help.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2014-08-30 00:17:46 +0000, Mort said:

Eric Stevens wrote:
The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see
that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting
to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next
hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next
hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual
conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years.
--


They just restored a Mosquito to flying condition in the U.K., and
there is a photograph on line of it flying next to a Lockheed P-38.
Fascinating bit of history.

Mort Linder

There is currently only one airworthy Mosquito, that was originally
built in Canada, it never saw WWII service. It was eventually sold in
Ontario and disassembled for use as a maintenance training model.
It was then resold in pieces to Jerry Yagen and restored to flying
condition in New Zealand. Eric has been providing us news of its
progress and delivery to its owner in the US last year. Mosquito FB.26
KA114/N114KA owned by Jerry Yagen, now resides at the Military Aviation
Museum, Virginia Beach, VA.
http://www.warbirdrestoration.co.nz/past.html#ka114

The same NZ shop is busy bringing its second Mossie back to airworthy
condition. Then there will be two, none restored to flying condition in
the UK. What has been done in the UK with Mossies has been museum and
gate guard restoration. There are no flying Mosquitos in the UK.

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Regards,

Savageduck

On 2014-08-30 01:03:17 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:17:46 -0400, Mort wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:
The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see
that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting
to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next
hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next
hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual
conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years.
--


They just restored a Mosquito to flying condition in the U.K., and there
is a photograph on line of it flying next to a Lockheed P-38.
Fascinating bit of history.

Do you know which aircraft that is, or who owns it, or who restored
it? I'm just trying to identify it.

It is the Jerry Yagen Mossie, FB 26 KA114. There is still only one
flying Mosquito. You gave us the first shots of that back in NZ.

We are waiting for #2. ;-)


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7153_DxO.jpg may be
of some help.


--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 2014-08-29 22:58:12 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:20:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-08-29 21:07:58 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:35:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-08-29 08:03:56 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg

Nice P-51!

I'm surprised: you of all people!

That's not a P51 Mustang. That's a 3/4 scale Thunder Mustang!

Note the engine, it's not a RR Merlin, it's a Falconer V12 racing
engine, the design of which is based on the small-block Chevrolet V8.
See http://www.thundermustang.com/
http://www.thundermustang.com/gallery-two/ for photographs (not the
plane in my shot) and
http://www.bluethunderairracing.com/...pecifications/ for
comparisons with the real thing.

So? I was 3/4 right, and it is a 3/4 nice P-51. ;-)

Scale is tough to judge when unassembled and without a good old average
size human in the shot.

I have one of those but I don't know that you will find it very
helpful https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7153_DxO.jpg

The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see
that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting
to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next
hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next
hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual
conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years.

The undercarriage in that shot makes it more obvious as a scaled down
P-51 replica. The wheels are very un-P-51 like the struts look less
robust, and the inboard disc bake is also unusual. The inclusion of the
man doesn't really help much.

All said, it looks pretty good and I am sure that once it takes to the
sky it will be a lot of fun for whoever gets to fly it.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 2014-08-30 01:26:46 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2014-08-29 22:58:12 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:20:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-08-29 21:07:58 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:35:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-08-29 08:03:56 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg

Nice P-51!

I'm surprised: you of all people!

That's not a P51 Mustang. That's a 3/4 scale Thunder Mustang!

Note the engine, it's not a RR Merlin, it's a Falconer V12 racing
engine, the design of which is based on the small-block Chevrolet V8.
See http://www.thundermustang.com/
http://www.thundermustang.com/gallery-two/ for photographs (not the
plane in my shot) and
http://www.bluethunderairracing.com/...pecifications/ for
comparisons with the real thing.

So? I was 3/4 right, and it is a 3/4 nice P-51. ;-)

Scale is tough to judge when unassembled and without a good old average
size human in the shot.

I have one of those but I don't know that you will find it very
helpful https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7153_DxO.jpg

The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see
that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting
to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next
hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next
hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual
conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years.

The undercarriage in that shot makes it more obvious as a scaled down
P-51 replica. The wheels are very un-P-51 like, the struts look less
robust, and the inboard disc bake is also unusual. The inclusion of the
man doesn't really help much.

That was disc brake, a disc bake would be something totally different. ;-)

All said, it looks pretty good and I am sure that once it takes to the
sky it will be a lot of fun for whoever gets to fly it.


--
Regards,

Savageduck

In article , says...

Eric Stevens wrote:
The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see
that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting
to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next
hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next
hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual
conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years.
--


They just restored a Mosquito to flying condition in the U.K., and there
is a photograph on line of it flying next to a Lockheed P-38.
Fascinating bit of history.

So we have now the Me-262, the FW-190, and the Mosquito all having
limited production runs in the 21st Century. Wonder how long it's going
to be before the Zero line starts up? Or has it already and I just
missed it?

On 8/29/2014 6:20 PM, Savageduck wrote:

snip

Scale is tough to judge when unassembled and without a good old average
size human in the shot.


Would it work if the human was young and bad?


--
PeterN

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:26:46 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-08-29 22:58:12 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:20:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-08-29 21:07:58 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:35:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-08-29 08:03:56 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg

Nice P-51!

I'm surprised: you of all people!

That's not a P51 Mustang. That's a 3/4 scale Thunder Mustang!

Note the engine, it's not a RR Merlin, it's a Falconer V12 racing
engine, the design of which is based on the small-block Chevrolet V8.
See http://www.thundermustang.com/
http://www.thundermustang.com/gallery-two/ for photographs (not the
plane in my shot) and
http://www.bluethunderairracing.com/...pecifications/ for
comparisons with the real thing.

So? I was 3/4 right, and it is a 3/4 nice P-51. ;-)

Scale is tough to judge when unassembled and without a good old average
size human in the shot.

I have one of those but I don't know that you will find it very
helpful https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7153_DxO.jpg

The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see
that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting
to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next
hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next
hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual
conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years.

The undercarriage in that shot makes it more obvious as a scaled down
P-51 replica. The wheels are very un-P-51 like the struts look less
robust, and the inboard disc bake is also unusual. The inclusion of the
man doesn't really help much.

All said, it looks pretty good and I am sure that once it takes to the
sky it will be a lot of fun for whoever gets to fly it.

It has already flown. In fact it holds several speed records. See
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10633735
When I last saw it, it was in the shop for a major engine rebuild. I
suspect they may have been pushing it for too long and too hard. I
don't blame them for trying: it's as fast as a P-51D and has nearly
twice the range.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens