Mosquito site

http://www.mossie.org/

 

RAAF Mosquito Squadrons WW2

These are the two RAAF mosquito squadrons named in the Mosquito site.


Mosquito equipped squadrons in Europe.
456 Squadron RAAF

464 Squadron RAAF

Mosquito equipped squadrons in the Pacific

• 1 Squadron RAAF
• 9 Squadron RAAF

87 squadron
Photo recon squadron
http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/raaf/87sqn.htm

 

interesting website, full of lots of useful information for the mossie buff - kitty!

 

Oh God, i feel faint.

 

Mosquitos in action.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ-a8U1QWUw

 

More mosquito footage, this I guess from 633 Squadron.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR5FBSCQRwE

 

No wonder it was feared so!

 

They really were poetry in motion weren't they.

Could do everything except walk on water.

Bloody hell, I am starting to sound like Kitty.

 

They used to say that if the aircraft looked good then it did good! This just goes to prove it right!

 

There is a reason she was known as the Wooden Wonder. And the Flying Coffin but thats neither here nor there.

 

Well the germans tried to copy the idea but failed because they could not produce the glue!

 

I use that site a lot, couple with this list:

http://www.dehavilland.ukf.net/_DH98 prodn list.txt

 

Neither could DH on the Mk 1. She was known to, err, fall apart because the glue had failed. She was quickly replaced by the Mk 2 which didn't fall apart.