Thanks to everyone who participated in this poll, either through voting or by commenting. We asked you to tell us which Mosquito variant you would like to see flying in the UK. The voting shows a fairly categorical result – the overwhelming vote is for the FB Mk.VI Fighter Bomber with 191 votes – that’s well over half […]
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OK folks, here’s the answer to the second in our series of Mosquito related questions entitled Mind-boggling Mossie Mysteries: Which air force couldn’t fly their Mossies, because they couldn’t obtain any British ammunition, due to an arms embargo, then got around the problem by fitting German weapons? Congratulations to all those who correctly answered that it was
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Our newest Affiliate and old friend, George E. Stewart DFC, former wartime Mosquito pilot and trainer, has generously shared with us these photographs illustrating the original asymmetric power technique that resulted in so many ground-loops and crashes on take-off, and describes the Zero Boost method he developed for making Mosquito launches safer. George writes: “These three photographs
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OK folks, here’s the second in our series of Mosquito related questions entitled Mind-boggling Mossie Mysteries: Which air force couldn’t fly their Mossies, because they couldn’t obtain any British ammunition, due to an arms embargo, then got around the problem by fitting German weapons? The answer will be published here next week.
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The People’s Mosquito is delighted to announce that former Mosquito pilot George Stewart has accepted an invitation to be come a TPM Affiliate. George, a Canadian, flew 50 Ops on Mosquito with No 23 Squadron between July-November 1944 – all by the time he was 21. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for this
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OK folks, here’s the first in our new series of Mosquito related questions entitled Mind-boggling Mossie Mysteries: Which air force that operated the Mosquito also flew the Focke-Wulf Fw190 and Lockheed F-16? Answer: The Turkish Air Force Well done to all those who answered correctly that it was the Turkish Air Force that has operated all three aircraft type.
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The Mosquito FB.VI – a magnificent all-rounder.
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Happy New Year one and all! As many of you will be aware, we celebrated our first birthday a few days ago. As a bit of light end-of-year/start-of-year trivia, here are some interesting facts and figures from the first year of The People’s Mosquito. Our website had 51,000 views in 2012. That’s nearly a thousand views a
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PRESS RELEASE Issued: 15th March 2012 Unique Mosquito NF.36 Night-Fighter restoration confirmed The People’s Mosquito are very pleased to announce that an airframe for the restoration project has been confirmed. The remains of Mosquito NF.36 RL249, recovered in 2006, have been donated to the group. The remains include the all-important identity, along with several other
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News may have filtered out already but we are proud to announce the launch of the official TPM promotional video. It features some amazing colour footage shot in August 1944 by Flying Officer Brian Harris DFC, serving as a Mosquito Navigator with RAF 627 Sqn. The footage was kindly released to The People’s Mosquito for
