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Offline Rickshaw

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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #75 on: December 31, 2018, 06:05:12 AM »
Quote from: GTX_Admin on December 31, 2018, 05:21:26 AM
Random idea:  Mosquito with 75mm cannon from B-25

I suspect the structure would need to be considerably "beefed up" to accept the recoil...
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #76 on: December 31, 2018, 06:23:23 AM »
Maybe.  Maybe a M10 (T15E1) 75 mm auto cannon from the XA-38 would also be suitable.

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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #77 on: December 31, 2018, 06:31:40 AM »
Looking at the 4-engined Mossie further up the thread, De Havilland's actual proposal was the DH 101. An enlarged DH 98 but not exactly the same as I found out, and powered by two Napier Sabre engines with contra-props. It was supposed to carry 8000lb internally with one 1000lb bomb under each outer wing. The idea it would carry this load at minimum of 400 mph.

Here's a couple of pics of it that I got from Tony Buttler.

The bottom pic shows it compared with the DH 98 after I had scaled the pic to 1/72.
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #78 on: August 17, 2019, 06:17:39 AM »
Does anyone know of a Mk.XVIII TseTse converion for the Mosquito?  There was an ancient vacuum-formed conversion available ages ago but has there been any other more recent solutions offered 48th or 32nd scale?  I know that Matchbox offered the TseTse as an option in their 1:72nd scale Mosquito kit. 

Inspiration derived from this video: TSETSE the DH Mosquito Mk XVIII
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #79 on: August 17, 2019, 06:31:12 AM »
« Last Edit: August 17, 2019, 06:33:45 AM by kitnut617 »
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #80 on: August 17, 2019, 06:39:21 AM »
Thanks Robert.  A shame that Paragon is OOB.  Looks like a simple enough conversion to do on my own.  Plus I have plenty of Airfix and Revell (né Monogram) Mosquitos to thrash in the process. 
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Offline Rickshaw

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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #81 on: August 17, 2019, 11:27:00 AM »
Airfix in one of their iterations of their 1/72 kit did a TseTse Mosquito IIRC.

There is also a conversion for a TseTse 1/48 Mosquito on Britmodeller.
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #82 on: August 18, 2019, 02:54:21 AM »
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #83 on: April 20, 2021, 11:56:50 PM »
While browsing SPF yesterday, I read an interesting thread about some trials for a 32 pdr cannon mounted in the Mosquito. It was to have a special muzzle brake called a Galliot
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #84 on: September 27, 2021, 12:49:40 PM »
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #85 on: February 18, 2022, 01:53:59 AM »
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #86 on: February 18, 2022, 02:23:25 AM »
This scene is described in Captain Brown's "Wings on my Sleeve" - it was one of his earliest projects as a test pilot.
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #87 on: June 03, 2022, 08:27:58 PM »
Historic warplane to arrive in Kelowna next week.

Amid all the large passenger planes that land in Kelowna every day, a historic warplane will be landing at Kelowna International Airport (YLW) next week.

Weather permitting, the de Havilland 98 Mosquito will touch down at YLW on Monday (6th) around 11:15 am.

Will our ace west coast reporter "Sitka Spruce Stephen" be onsite to watch and write-up this event?

Sources:
https://www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/news/news/Kelowna/Historic_warplane_to_arrive_in_Kelowna_next_week/
https://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/kelownas-kf-centre-for-excellence-acquires-de-havilland-mosquito.html
https://www.cahs.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=836:cathedral-of-wood-ingrained-with-history&catid=1172:june-2015

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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #88 on: July 02, 2022, 01:37:44 AM »
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #89 on: May 23, 2023, 03:07:50 AM »
Foundith on Facebookith

It's a DH Mosquito, but not as we know it. It's fitted with Lancaster Power Plants with Chin Radiators.

DD723 was fitted with these power plants to see if there was any performance differences compared with a standard Mosquito with radiators in the wing leading edge (these were faired in on D723)
Tests proved that there was very little difference in performance with the exception of rate of climb, which was slightly inferior.


Mosquito-Lancaster-Nacelles-01 by Big Gimper, on Flickr
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #90 on: May 23, 2023, 01:28:57 PM »
Quote from: kitnut617 on December 31, 2018, 06:31:40 AM
Looking at the 4-engined Mossie further up the thread, De Havilland's actual proposal was the DH 101. An enlarged DH 98 but not exactly the same as I found out, and powered by two Napier Sabre engines with contra-props. It was supposed to carry 8000lb internally with one 1000lb bomb under each outer wing. The idea it would carry this load at minimum of 400 mph.

Here's a couple of pics of it that I got from Tony Buttler.

The bottom pic shows it compared with the DH 98 after I had scaled the pic to 1/72.
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Looking back at this, it almost looks like you could use a 1/48 Mosquito fuselage as a starting point.
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Re: De Havilland Mosquito
« Reply #91 on: October 05, 2023, 02:38:02 PM »
Beaufighter   Mosquito

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