The recent thread about the drawings got me thinking that a while back Glyn Powell was building a mossie. i think the first one wasn’t supposed to be airworthy but his intentions was to produce one eventually that would take to the air. anyone knows what happened to his project?
i could only find this at mossie.org.. http://www.mossie.org/NZ2308.htm
also whatever happened to Ed Zalesky restoration? any updated photos anyone?
thanks!
By: zTango - 21st July 2007 at 17:32
thanks for that Steve.. i’ve been reading up on it.. (should have searched i guess)
i always thought that B.35 at Windsor was the Zaleskys No.2 bird.. i guess i had my wires VERY crossed!
By: Steve T - 21st July 2007 at 14:10
zTango–
The Zaleskys had two Mossie projects: FB.26 hulk KA114 (Canadian-built) and B.35 VR796/CF-HML (ex-Arctic survey). KA114 passed to Jerry Yagen, who is based in Virginia; it is now the project well advanced in NZ with Glyn Powell and is slated to fly upon completion. VR796 passed to Bob Jens of Vancouver, BC and is under longterm restoration, also to fly, in Bob’s hangar at Vancouver; for company it has Bob’s airworthy Spitfire XIVe TZ138/C-GSPT…You’re correct, also, about Glyn Powell’s first Mossie fuselage not being a flyer. To test the re-created fuselage molds, a fuselage was first laid-up in pine. That “test shot” (to use a plastic-kit term!) came to Canada to be incorporated in the Windsor (Ontario) Mosquito Bomber Group’s static Mossie project, which otherwise is based on the recovered remains of crashed survey B.35 TA661.
HTH
S.
By: zTango - 20th July 2007 at 20:10
excellent.. thanks guys!
no word of the Zalesky Mossie then i take it..?
By: Mark12 - 20th July 2007 at 20:03
By: Peter - 20th July 2007 at 19:53
Do a search for glyn powell
You should be able to find a few threads on the first restoration you are enquiring about:)
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