Hi All,
Taken on Tuesday 27th June before the target towing Mossie was inserted in its new home. Note the eppenage. I assume this lot was added to prevent the aft flying controls becoming fouled with the target cable. Where was the target cable stowed, and does anyone have any pictures?
Cheers,
C6 🙂
By: David Burke - 4th July 2006 at 21:42
I don’t recall this machine having any wartime history. The role of target towing whilst not being glamourous was essential . A number of aircraft were lost in this role – if you crave camouflage there can be no greater place to visit than the Mosquito shrine at London Colney
By: Allison Johnson - 4th July 2006 at 21:35
I know what you fella’s are saying.
I just like my mossies in the active duty camoflage if that makes sense?It’s like the mossie they have up in Canberra, fantastic airframe…. but in a post-war silver scheme? plain wrong in my book. Especially when displayed at our war memorial, it should be in a scheme as used by our combat pilots.
Seeing it dressed up as a target tug doesn’t really light my candle. I always thought that the reason to restore these beautiful aircraft was to serve as a memorial to the guys who flew them and to remember the sacrifice that a lot of them made. I don’t really want to remember targets even though a lot of them were probably lost. I think that a mossie isn’t a mossie unless it’s in camoflage colours. Did this particular aircraft have any combat history?
Ali
😡
By: JägerMarty - 4th July 2006 at 14:44
I know what you fella’s are saying.
I just like my mossies in the active duty camoflage if that makes sense?
It’s like the mossie they have up in Canberra, fantastic airframe…. but in a post-war silver scheme? plain wrong in my book. Especially when displayed at our war memorial, it should be in a scheme as used by our combat pilots.
By: MarkG - 3rd July 2006 at 12:02
Shame a Mossie’s being displayed in such a garrish scheme, just my opinion. Such a nice aircraft
The scheme may be an acquired taste but I’m happy with it because it’s original, and does make a nice change I think.
The real shame is that this beautiful aeroplane will be hanging from the ceiling like the Airfix FB.VI I grotesquely built as a nipper 🙂
Still, this and other aircraft may be hanging, but at least they’ll be inside which is the most important concern.
By: David Burke - 3rd July 2006 at 11:58
Jager – it’s an authentic scheme from the days when they were used as targets for our own side !
By: JägerMarty - 3rd July 2006 at 11:34
Shame a Mossie’s being displayed in such a garrish scheme, just my opinion. Such a nice aircraft
By: JDK - 2nd July 2006 at 09:43
James
You saved my image for your 5000th post I see. 🙂
Mark
I always like to travel in good company. 😉 (I hadn’t actually noticed. – clearly a scary ammount of hot air!)
By: Mark12 - 2nd July 2006 at 09:10
James
You saved my image for your 5000th post I see. 🙂
Mark
By: JDK - 2nd July 2006 at 07:48
Where was the target cable stowed, and does anyone have any pictures?
Just a quick search on this forum. Ground shot originally posted by Mark12, airborne shot by Septic, both here in this thread.
By: ZRX61 - 2nd July 2006 at 07:09
If they need a drogue, I left one in my parents garage in Portsmouth… I think it’s still there…
By: mike currill - 1st July 2006 at 14:10
Circus 6, I think the cable drum for the drogue was carried in the bomb bay though I have no idea what, if any, mods were made.
By: Tailspin - 30th June 2006 at 15:46
Where is its new home going to be? I’ll have to sack my intelligence.
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