AvSpecs Mosquito update

In addition to the above posts many mossies(and Airspeed Horsas!) were not manufactured by the design company but by some of our Furniture Manufacturers.I remember seeing photos of Mossie production in the High Wycombe area but cannot remember the company names.

Slightly off topic but every week I drive past Chattis Hill in Wiltshire and wonder about the first flight of newly assembled spitfires out of there.
The clue is in the name,it has quite a slope,presumably take off downhill and land uphill and the only hint from the road that it used to happen are the gaps in the hedges near the road junction at the south westerlyish corner of the field!!now that is dispersed production !!

The May update for the Spitfire Mk Vb is now online, and Stu (the webmaster) says new updates on both the Spitfire and Mossie will be online next week covering June 2007

http://www.warbirdrestoration.co.nz/spitfire_may07.html

Thanks Dave. They are a bit behind in the updates

Not really. All of the updates so far have reflected what has occurred a couple of months before. Considering it is Warren Denholm himself who takes the time to photograph and write up all the progress on the various restoration projects in his workshop, I don’t think we have the right to complain that it’s not right up to date. He’s a very busy man. And after all, where else can you see such excellent month by month reports on a restoration of anything, near alone a to-be-airworthy Mosquito?

Interesting…

Your right Dave a war would have moved things along. I too have visited their site many times and sit gobsmacked at the high standard of workmanship shown!
So after the mossie is done, will he be tooling up and building the might Dehavilland Hornet??;)

Peter, I guess during WW2 cost was less of an issue, and there was the expediency of an enemy at the gate to move things along. When you are having to effectively make a new prototype on new tooling, while trying to satisfy the modern approval process, while balancing work on other types, it can clearly justify the timescale. As with all these things, if this is to be followed by number two, three, etc. I’m sure these will be quicker.

Glyn took 10 years to make the first fuselage and tooling, the second fuselage took less than 1 year? This new wing has taken a remarkably short time, considering the wing jig is also newly made.

I look on in awe, and I cannot wait to see this fly! 😀

progress

Thanks Dave. They are a bit behind in the updates but she is still progressing well! It does make you wonder though how they could beuild these aircraft so quickly iin the war!!