THE ONE THAT ALMOST GOT AWAY…

MOSQUITO PZ474 Given an often chequered career, it is incredible that de Havilland Mosquito FBVI PZ474 should even have survived, let alone that it is flying again — but flying again it is Steve Hinton flying Rod Lewis’s utterly glorious Mosquito FBVI, PZ474, near Ardmore on 16 January. Cut in half behind the wing, the derelict Mosquito made an increasingly sorry sight at Whiteman Air Park as the 1970s progressed. VIA WARREN DENHOLM No wonder a crowd gathered at Ardmore,