New build mossies

Originally posted by Melvyn Hiscock
Not that long ago I had a conversation with someone who proudly told me he was building a batch of twelve Mosquitos so that he could remake 633 Squadron and its sequal.

I am very pleased to say that this one has WAY more hope of happening.

you know that Vendair at Biggin have a new undercarriage?

MH

Even if this was remotely possible – 633 Squadron, yes.

Mosquito Squadron – NO!!!

And if I had the money, I’d want one!

Originally posted by Mark12
He most certainly is.

http://www.mossie.org/NZ2308.htm

Any other SWAG estimates on the cost of getting ‘One dozen’ scratch built Mosquitos in the air in a ‘film company’ time frame?

Mark

When I heard this I was too busy laughing to work it out for a while. The guy had no idea what he was talking about. A real case of “they are Wood therefore they are easy”.

There would be some economies of scale but there would be massive paperwork problems. Wouldn’t these count as series aeroplanes and wouldn’t a film count as aerial work?

Plus the “film company time frame” is an interesting point. As we all know you can do anything if you throw enough money at it. £40m would be a start . . .

The other aspect is that 12 new-build mostquitos wouldn’t cover their build costs as they would simply not be valuable enough. There is unlikely to be a market for that many. Think of who might want one, many of the American big-league players would not be interested in them and once one or two have been bought here the values would drop. I would estimate the resale value of a new-build Mossie to be £2m TOPS. That would be a loss of about the same on each one according to Mark’s estimate of what they could cost.

Of course Mark does know a little bit (!) about the costs of rebuilding aeroplanes . .

When I came off the phone from the original call I laughed out loud partly in amusement and partly in frustration that Darwin could be so wrong when it comes to the intelligence of the species!

MH

Just out of interest,will they be altering/updating the glue [if they’re using glue].I believe the mosquito in the USA has glue problems because of the humidity,will that be looked into as well.

He most certainly is.

http://www.mossie.org/NZ2308.htm

Any other SWAG estimates on the cost of getting ‘One dozen’ scratch built Mosquitos in the air in a ‘film company’ time frame?

Mark

Glyn is doing a fantastic job.

He has been a great source of information, in providing me with technical help on my mold building process for the hornet fuselage.

£40m will cover it if they go carefully. :rolleyes:

Mark

Super news, because the jig making process is the difficult bit, once done, mass production is not a problem.:)

Not that long ago I had a conversation with someone who proudly told me he was building a batch of twelve Mosquitos so that he could remake 633 Squadron and its sequal.

I am very pleased to say that this one has WAY more hope of happening.

you know that Vendair at Biggin have a new undercarriage?

MH

The fuselage in the pictures should be on its way to the Windsor Mosquito Bomber Group shortly from what I understand. I believe that Glyn plans to build the next one out of flying grade materials…

Andy