By: DazDaMan - 20th April 2004 at 08:07
Yeah yeah… 😉
By: Septic - 19th April 2004 at 23:44
Originally posted by Robbo
Come on, admit it Septic, you’ve got a soft spot for Mosquito Squadron too!Rob
Ok Robbo, I also like Mosquito Squadron
(ps only the opening titles).
but only if you don’t tell anyone!
Septic
By: Septic - 19th April 2004 at 23:14
Re: Not too many Mosquito fanciers then?
Originally posted by Mark12
Septic is of course correct. He either has fantastic memory, a fully retrievable archive facility or a copy of Control Column magazine Volume 6 number 2.Mark
No to fantastic memory, brain cells are already diminishing at an alarming daily rate!
Just a humble fan of 633 sqd.
Septic.
By: Firebird - 19th April 2004 at 15:36
I have to admit, my first post guess of the year was a first stab from memory cells based on the fact that I was at work.
By the the time I could get to my Mossie refs. I had most of the answers, but couldn’t be 100% on location or specific day in Dec., but guessed it was Luton because the ‘washed’ paint to disguise the military markings was fresh, and by the time it got to the other side of the Atlantic, this had all but disappeared…
But then when I went to post up, Septic was already there…….:D
By: Bruce - 19th April 2004 at 15:01
RS709 I knew, but I confess I thought it was when it came back. Not to worry.
The stacks are Mosquito stacks, but they are the type that are usually placed at the rear on single stage engines.
Bruce
By: Firebird - 19th April 2004 at 14:54
Re: Not too many Mosquito fanciers then?
Originally posted by Mark12
Oh yes, and along the way one of the exhausts fell off.Mark
One of the inboard stubs of the starboard Merlin I believe……;)
By: Mark12 - 19th April 2004 at 14:20
Not too many Mosquito fanciers then?
Septic is of course correct. He either has fantastic memory, a fully retrievable archive facility or a copy of Control Column magazine Volume 6 number 2.
It is indeed RS709/G-ASKB captured at Luton prior to departing for the US with Civil reg N9797. It was actually taken on the 10th of December 1971 (three-quarters of a kill Septic, three-quarters of a kill 🙂 ).
In view of the routing the RAF military markings had been adjusted giving it a somewhat Scandinavian look.
The exhausts are intriguing and a Mosquito expert will I am sure tell us all more. On some installations of the Merlin in the Mosquito, I believe the rearmost pairs of cylinders use a special bifurcated exhaust, two into one, with the other cylinders having single output. For whatever reason these specials have been used in total giving this strange appearance.
The owner of the Mosquito, Ed Jurist, was riding navigator/flight engineer/shot gun/companion and the pilot was Duane Egli, a pilot with an ‘interesting’ aviation career usually involving very tired old military medium bombers and almost time expired airliners on delivery to the more obscure parts of Africa and points east.
Various technical faults with the radio and fuel transfers delayed the aircraft on the long route via Vigo, the Azores, Newfoundland before arrival in Boston just before Christmas with just 10 minutes fuel indicated. It reached its final destination, the Confederate Air Force at Harlingen Texas on 1st January 1972.
It is hard to believe that you could just wander in to “Nah…Luton Airport” and out on to the hard standing in those days without any security checks.
Oh yes, and along the way one of the exhausts fell off.
Mark
By: Mark12 - 18th April 2004 at 10:38
Bump – Handicap free.
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By: Septic - 16th April 2004 at 22:47
Originally posted by Robbo
Wot, no cones?
Only wooden ones!
By: Septic - 16th April 2004 at 22:30
1. Mosquito B35 RS709
2. Luton airport
3. About to fly the Atlantic
4. 11 December 1971
Pilots Duane Egli and Ed Jurist
Did the Mosquito ever fly at a CAF display?
By: JDK - 16th April 2004 at 14:08
Life tough, eh Bruce?
It’s Post 633 Sqn (that bit’s easy) but the rest beats me I confess.
Good one.
By: Bruce - 16th April 2004 at 14:04
mm mmmmmm mmm mmm mmmmm mm
Damn this 2 day gag….
(Dont know all of the answers, but I do know some of them!!)
Bruce
By: Firebird - 16th April 2004 at 13:00
Re: Time for anoth photo quiz?
Originally posted by Mark12
All dedicated Mosquito aficionados take a two day handicap.
Oh well…….;) 😀
(I’m guessing ’79 ish after Doug had bought it, about to leave over there to come back here, before going back again a few years later……;) )
Looking at the exhaust stubs, pehaps it was an experimental V6 engined Mossie……;) 😀
By: DazDaMan - 16th April 2004 at 12:49
Judging by the markings, an ex-633 Squadron B.35 Mosquito?
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