To ALL Mosquito Fans and TPM Supporters, URGENT – EMERGENCY WOOD APPEALYour Help Please – Due To A Time-Limited Donation Can we achieve £30,000 in additional funds in only a few weeks? Help us to save £9,000 in costs! Laminating the fuselage shells during wartime production. With your help, we can press on with doing […]
A letter from John Lilley – Emergency Wood Appeal to save materials and cost! Read More »
The moon shone on scudding clouds which fled before a gusty wind; the same strong wind whipped up 4 to 5 foot waves, which crashed onto a sandy shore, littered with strange steel obstacles. It was not as bad as last night, but the wind would pick up again, sometime in the next few days.
Mosquitoes – Paving the way for D-Day Read More »
In December our Chairman and MD, John Lilley and Nick Horrox, our Director of Communications spoke to Jo Thoenes of BFBS Brize Norton (@bfbsbrize) about the project and the history of the Mosquito. The links to Oxfordshire started with the very first operational sortie by a Mosquito in 1941, from RAF Benson. Post-war, RAF Brize Norton
BFBS Brize Norton interview – aired January 2016 Read More »
My uncle, John C. Pickford, served in the RAF from 1941 until 1946. Between October 1944 and the end of the war in May 1945, he flew about fifty missions over Germany as a Navigator/Bomb Aimer in Mosquitoes. With the aid of his flight logs and entries in Operations Record books, over the coming months I
The Wartime Diaries of a Mosquito Navigator – Part 2 Read More »
My uncle, John C. Pickford, served in the RAF from 1941 until 1946. Between October 1944 and the end of the war in May 1945, he flew about fifty missions over Germany as a Navigator/Bomb Aimer in Mosquitos. With the aid of his flight logs and entries in Operations Record books, over the coming months I
The Wartime Diaries of a Mosquito Navigator – Part 1 Read More »
We are pleased to be able to now offer an outstanding set of exclusive Mosquito prints for sale online. The three high quality, 12″ x 16″ poster prints, have been created especially for The People’s Mosquito by Airpower Art, based on photographs by Neil Hutchinson Photography, and have proved so popular at airshows this summer, that we have decided to continue
The People’s Mosquito prints now available on eBay Read More »
Our 2016 calendar, which has proven so popular at this summer’s airshows, is now available to purchase from eBay, priced at £10 including p+p. SORRY, SOLD OUT
TPM Calendar 2016 now available on eBay Read More »
We’re excited to announce some dates for events this summer at which the TPM stand will be present. We hope we can get to meet you at one of these. At each event there will be at least one or two of us from the team –  and in some cases more – to answer any of
Airshow attendance dates 2015 Read More »
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. He retired in 1985, having spent 50 years with the company. Dick’s wartime diaries, adapted by his nephew Roger Coasby, have been serialised previously on this site, and you can read the
Wartime Diaries of a de Havilland Engineer – Postscript Part 2 Read More »
From the diary of Germany’s Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Josef Goebbels, March 13th 1945: “This evening’s Mosquito raid was particularly disastrous for me because our Ministry was hit. The whole lovely building on the Wilhelmstrasse was totally destroyed by a bomb.  The throne-room, the Blue Gallery and my newly rebuilt theatre hall are nothing but
OTD – Josef Goebbels' Diary – 13th March 1945 Read More »
