Mosquitoes

How about Beverlies!!

And the Avro Personchester? I think not.

Janie’s right – Boeing Stearmen

I thought we’d long ago established that it is only PC to use Boeing Stearpersons?

Moggy

Always Walrii.

Shabatii is clearly silly! Do pay attention at the back.

Tsk. Fule.

Walrii JDK?:);)

Janie’s right – Boeing Stearmen
Grumman Geese
Then which do you prefer (it’s venecular, you can have what you want…)
Mozzies / Mossies / Mozies / Mozzys /

Bah. Chiz chiz chiz…

Thanks. Let me know if you ever see de Havilland spelt with a capital ‘D’, so that I can let rip there too! And Gipsy Major erroneously spelt with a ‘y’. 😮 And Griffon …

Of course you are correct, Janie, and I now see in other reference books on the Mosquito that they conform to your style note.
This is important to me as a technical author, but I must confess that I thought, seeing the Bowman book, that this was perhaps a case of “common practice” instead of “correct practice”.
End of lecture, folks!

The book acknowledges help from many major sources, surely one of which would have corrected the authors if they had made a mistake.

Don’t bank on it.

Mosquito is a proper noun. It always begins with a capital letter. It’s a name it cannot be changed. To make a proper noun plural, you just add an ‘s’.

Sorry to barge in on this, but throughout the “Mosquito” book Classic Aircraft No. 7 by Michael J F Bowyer and Bryan Philpott, the plural is consistently spelled “Mosquitoes”. The book acknowledges help from many major sources, surely one of which would have corrected the authors if they had made a mistake.
I would also like to point out that the Internet is renowned for sloppy writing!

Hi Stewart,

Contact me off forum. I’ll send you a copy of my Mosquito CD. Loads of pictures & reading meterial on it (about 550 megs worth of stuff there!).

Cheers,
Neilly

Thanks for pointing that out Janie – I have never noticed this before but now it seems painfully obvious.

So why no ‘e’?

I always assumed the name De Haviiland Mosquito also referred to the insect, since all their coolest planes have insect names (moths, hornet, dragonfly…).

Dave

[Pedant] Do note that if you are going to do an electronic search, there is no ‘e’ in Mosquitos, unless you are referring to the insect. [/Pedant]

And there I was thinking it was just me spelling it without the ‘e’!

Can anybody help me find flying pictures of any recent mosquitoes.

[Pedant] Do note that if you are going to do an electronic search, there is no ‘e’ in Mosquitos, unless you are referring to the insect. [/Pedant]

Stewart1a

I’m not sure I understood what your post was. You are in the midst of a Mosquito restoration to flying? If that’s the case I can get a number of original blueprint copies for you from the museum as we restored one to static. There would be a cost involved for reproduction but if you PM me I can provide you with more details

Gerry

You might also like to have a quick look at my page for survivors

http://www.mossie.org

Andy

I believe the Mossie at Elvington is being rebuilt to taxing condition but their is a long way to go.

The HJ711 rebuild at Elvington, Yorkshire, would be closer to you, stewart1a, it certainly looked as if it could use some volunteer help the last time I saw it, in February!

You should talk with Glyn Powell, of the Mosquito Aircraft Restoration Company, Auckland, New Zealand.

He has painstakenly recreated the moulds for the Mossie fuselage and is now able to make them to order as good as the original thing, but brand new. He is currently rebuilding ex-RNZAF Mossie NZ2308 to fly. I can’t wait.

A list of the world’s preserved Mossies can be found here http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/Preserved/Mosquito.htm which has some photos.

There is a current restoration project in place. Will it fly? Good question.

http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bfillery/mossie11.htm
http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bfillery/mossie12.htm

at the moment im not looking