The Plane (sic) That Saved Britain – Channel 4. next Sunday 8.00 pm

Info on the programme here

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-plane-that-saved-britain/episode-guide

I suspect that by TSR.II Graham means the Swordfish prototype, certainly a multi-role aircraft if ever there was one! You could probably go further back and say the Bristol F.2b was the first real MRCA, although of course it wasn’t officially designed to a multi-role spec. Then there’s the various versions of FE2, designed as a fighter(!), and then used for just about every other front line role.

Anyway, back to Mosquitoes…

The prototype Swordfish was TSR IIRC
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I’m not surprised that he was ‘gung-ho’. Who wouldn’t be, if you’re flying the very best aerial killing machine of WW2 !

Jim,

Doubtful about WW2. It certainly did in the B of B but, the Spit was far prettier !

John. I guess that there may well be some of those wonderfull “Stats” hidden away somewhere that could tell us exactly just how many each of the Spits and Hurricanes shot down???.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft!

… after the Beaufighter of course 🙂

Oh no the “Spitfire People’s Front” or the “People’s Front of Spitfire” will be manning the barricades over that….

Quickly men,man the barricades(eh?)……..

I suspect that by TSR.II Graham means the Swordfish prototype, certainly a multi-role aircraft if ever there was one! You could probably go further back and say the Bristol F.2b was the first real MRCA, although of course it wasn’t officially designed to a multi-role spec. Then there’s the various versions of FE2, designed as a fighter(!), and then used for just about every other front line role.

Anyway, back to Mosquitoes…

The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft!

Original meaning first? I doubt it. Ju88 comes to mind straight away and I’ll wager there were others before that.

I believe he also called the aeroplane the “Timber Terror”

I think a lot of that was due to his astonishingly gung-ho pilot of whom his c/o wrote

“an operational pilot whose eagerness to attack the enemy has known no bounds”

Moggy

Jim,

Doubtful about WW2. It certainly did in the B of B but, the Spit was far prettier !

Oh no the “Spitfire People’s Front” or the “People’s Front of Spitfire” will be manning the barricades over that….

I may well be wrong, but didn’t the Hurricane down more enemy aircraft than the Spitfire?.during WW2?.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I second the recommendation for “Terror in the starboard seat”, I believe he also called the aeroplane the “Timber Terror” rather than the normal Wooden Wonder. It was a position which could be quite frightening, I do not recommend inverted spins.

I just hope they don’t claim that the Mosquito shortened the war by x number of weeks/months/etc.
If all of the claims that the war was shortened by a particular series of events, or type of technology were true,
it would have been over in six months.

I’m surprised no one yet has taken me to task that the TSR-II was the original MRCA….

Will do, Moggy. In fact, I just ordered it 🙂

Ken

Get the best of both worlds

Read “Terror in the Starboard Seat” the story of a Mosquito nav who hated every moment of his operational flying and spent most of the time trying to keep his pilot from getting them both killed.

Dave McIntosh – 418 Squadron

Moggy

Correct Graham.

It does seem a little sad that the media need to use “impact” titles so much to grab the publics attention. “Terror in the Skies” anyone?!?

The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft!

I do have some sympathy given my adoration of the Spit! What would I have chosen to go to war in? The Mossie does it for me.

Careful, Paul! I hear the Spitfire Society have trademarked those names! 😀