Richard (Dick) Whittingham spent all his working life at de Havilland, starting as an apprentice in 1935 and finishing up as a senior production engineer. This is the seventh and final extract from Dick’s wartime diaries, adapted by his nephew Roger Coasby, and it gives a personal insight into those exciting days at Hatfield in the early 1940’s.
Part 1 – Starting to Build Mosquitos
Part 2 – Saturday 8th May 1943
Part 3 – Geoffrey Pike
Part 4 – The High Altitude Mosquitoes
Part 5 – Geoffrey de Havilland, Jnr
Part 6 – A Day to Remember
Part 7 – Big Gun Mosquito
Postscript Part 1 – Mosquito to Vampire
Postscript Part 2 – Planes to Music
Just finished reading all these posts. Many thanks for posting these fascinating diary entries. They bring the memories vividly to life.
I’ve spent many hours flying this amazing machine (on the simulator). See my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPyYwc4W_g
Great video. That would be a great day for Duxford (and British aviation). And it looks a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing.
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