EP9 Prospector

Then there’s always a first time.!

Rob

I admire your optimism! 🙂

I haven’t followed this story at all, so was wondering if the construction of the
Mosquito is as the original would have been built, or have there been enforced
compromises ?

Also how much of the airframe and wings are original, or was it a complete rebuild ?

All the wood is new, but as many of the metal fittings from the original airframe as possible were re-used. Construction follows the original, but using modern glues IIRC.

A magnificent achievement by Glyn Powell (who built the wooden components), the team at Avspecs (who did the systems build and installation) and Jerry Yagen (who must have been writing some extremely large cheques over the past few years). It looks as though they still have a way to go to meet the planned September first flight date, though.

The 1 Squadron F.21 is being refurbished for the association it belongs to. Hopefully some of the faults and deficiencies can be sorted with her.

Will it be heading up to Scotland once 1 Sqn reform later this year?

At least he can paint a third kill marking on the P-51 now – he’s well on the way to becoming an ace!

One of the piston Firecrackers (N182FR) and a turbine version (N2157C) are being used by the National Test Pilots School at Mojave. Both were still active quite recently.

How about an outdoor set-up with say 3 Stirlings being crewed-up prior to take-off with nearby as a separate display a couple of Me110 nightfighters being got to readiness as dusk approaches?

I wonder how many million that would cost to do properly (i.e. accurate facsimiles, not wood and fibreglass lookalikes)