Mosquito in Action during WWII

one of the all-time classic air was the de havilland mosquito made almost entirely of wood the mosquito vests avoided a dependence upon strategic metals and made use of the skills of Britain's huge woodworking industry endowed with exceptionally high performance by its two rolls-royce Merlin's and clean aerodynamics it was conceived both as an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft and bomber with a speed that would enable it to escape interception first flown in the 25th of November in 1940 it first entered operational service in the reconnaissance role as a mosquito PR marked one with a daylight sortie over France on September 20th 1941 shown here are RAF mosquitos of the 6:27 squadron on their way to an attack on a German fighter airfield at Dillon in Holland on August 15 1944 the canadian-built mosquito bombers with Packard built merlynx could carry a 4,000 pound bomb internally as well as wing-mounted 100 gallon drop tanks or two 500-pound bombs and could attain a ceiling of more than 36,000 feet production of all mosquitoes total seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-one including 1117 built in Canada and 228 in Austria you

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Length: 3min 29sec (209 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 09 2010

Reddit Comments

[u/ragedcow]

"It could be argued that no airplane amassed as remarkable a combat record in so short a time as did the Mosquito. It entered the war relatively late, a year to the day after the Battle of Britain ended, but it debuted with technology and aerodynamics far more advanced than the Spitfire’s. Certainly no airplane flew as many different kinds of missions and performed them as well as the Mosquito, one of the world’s first successful multirole combat aircraft. The Tornado strives to be its successor; the F-35 should be so lucky.

The Mosquito was an unarmed bomber with a crew of two, able to carry a bigger bombload farther than a B-17. It was also a fighter-bomber and a night fighter with an eight-gun nose battery. It was the most productive photoreconnaissance aircraft of the war. A high-speed courier. A weather-recon airplane. A carrier-qualified torpedo bomber (though too late to see combat). A pathfinder and target-marker for heavy bombers. The war’s most effective extreme-low-altitude intruder. A multiengine trainer and a high-speed target tug. A decoy frequently used to convince the Luftwaffe that three or four spoof-raid Mosquitos dropping chaff were a bomber stream of Lancasters." - Stephan Wilkinson, http://www.historynet.com/the-miraculous-mosquito.htm.

[u/ragedcow]

An impressive thing is that the Mosquito is almost made entirely out of wood. This gave the advantage of building the aircraft without depending on strategic metals. As well as the Mosquito could reach speeds of up to 415 mph or 667.878 km/h. The only plane that had a chance of competing with the Mosquito was the Me-262, 559 mph or 899.623 km/h.

[u/rossiFan]

I upvote all things Mosquito.