Mosquito Video Clip – Key Publishing

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By: DazDaMan - 30th April 2006 at 14:50

Fantastic footage – I couldn’t help but hear the 633 Squadron theme as she came barreling in left-to-right! 🙂

That aircraft was something special, all right. Sad to say I only got to see her once in action.

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By: italian harvard - 30th April 2006 at 14:03

thanks JDK, that was some interesting reading.
What I keep on seeing on these kinda accident report is sentences similar to this “The aircraft
was then observed to complete a number of uncontrolled manoeuvres before control appeared to
have been regained, but at too low height to prevent impact with the ground.” 🙁

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By: JDK - 30th April 2006 at 12:47

The AIB report on the accident is availabble as a PDF.

Just go to the AIB here and search by RR299.

Thanks Steve. A much missed performer and crew.

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By: JägerMarty - 30th April 2006 at 11:55

Thanks for posting that, would love to have seen a flying Mosquito, such a great aircraft. The other clips there are great too, esp of the 2 109s 🙂

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By: SJL - 30th April 2006 at 07:47

Steve,
What a beautiful aeroplane, thanks for the clip.
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By: Eddie - 29th April 2006 at 20:03

Steve – thanks for putting that video up. I can only echo the thoughts above – I last saw that aircraft on the Saturday of Legends ’96, and was horrified to hear of its demise a week later.

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By: lukeylad - 29th April 2006 at 19:36

That was amazing very moving aswell how sweet do those engines sound.

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By: pimpernel - 29th April 2006 at 19:31

where and how did that wonderful mossie crash? 🙁

Alex

Barton 21st July 1996.

See post here. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=56116

Sad loss and brought back memories as I can remember being at the Weald in 1996, thanks for posting.

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By: italian harvard - 29th April 2006 at 13:06

where and how did that wonderful mossie crash? 🙁

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By: sconnor - 29th April 2006 at 10:25

As I remember it, the pilot of that display wasn’t the one lost in the crash, however the engineer was.

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By: Moggy C - 29th April 2006 at 08:44

Sincere thanks for that.

Great to see, but very poignant

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By: Stieglitz - 29th April 2006 at 07:46

Thanks for this clip. It gives a chance to mosquito fans to have an idea how this nice bird preformed at airshows.

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By: Consul - 29th April 2006 at 00:07

Absolutely superb – just like we were back there again – sad loss.

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By: badger617 - 28th April 2006 at 23:03

Thanks Steve for finding that

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By: Seafuryfan - 28th April 2006 at 21:04

Steve,

Very moving and thought provoking.

Thanks for posting.

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By: Septic - 28th April 2006 at 20:44

Thanks Steve,

I watched that clip with mixed emotions, but many thanks for capturing and sharing the footage of RR299 in action.

Septic.