The other oddity is that they look asymmetrical?

Sorry folks.

Posted the wrong link…

I will put the right one in as soon as I find it.

Sorry.

John Green.

I will match your donation, should it happen!

My hunch (referred to on Page 1) was £5m. For the first one.

Based on a newly designed composite airframe and newly designed engines.

No intention to create a Mosquito per se.

But a rather nice vehicle.

I spent a lot of time (probably close to as much as you did) researching and doing CAD stuff. It rapidly became apparent that a replica was not affordable. A new aircraft that looked and sounded the same was very much do-able.

As I said EuroCAA were encouraging.

A number of lateral thoughts showed that the project could well drag in income from other sources.

I’ve emailed the Museum, pointing out their errors, and suggested that they invite him back (along with The Sun).

Get going chaps. We might swing it.

I was polite but humorous.

I got very close to managing a ‘new’ Mosquito project. The ‘high flying?’ solicitor who was the money lost his two vital licenses; PPL and Law – through Alcholism. Money is disappearing through divorce. Hey ho.

There is no shortage of wood working skills in this country. Plenty of yachtbuilders would give their eye teeth to do this. No need to get moulds from anywhere, multi axis cutters can knock them up in very little time.

My proposal was for a horizontally split fuselage mould tool. Lots of other little ‘improvements’ but absolutely no externally visible changes.

As far as wooden construction is concerned, epoxy glues have been used in yachtbuilding for over twenty years. They completely encapsulate the fibre making humidity and rot a thing of the past. Totally reliable – and in boats that sit in water for most of the year – not cosseted in a dryish hangar.

Long chats wih Euro CAA didn’t raise any significant problems. Even the engines (repro/new design/same GA) only needed one blade-off and one bust crank.

Foillowing the sad news about RobAnt, I’d like to say that family should be able to see where we ‘were’ on the web.

A relatively new example of ephemera.

I don’t bother password protecting my computers anymore, because I know that my kids and friends all know how to solve that in minutes.

Website (forum) passwords could be retrieved by using the reminder function and my email address. Kids know that, but as I speak, I have written it down in ‘the obvious place’.

Some of the stuff I’ve written would let the kids know that, just occasionally, I do know what I’m talking about. And what really interested me.

So, to be trite, if Rob’s original post lets just one family read what one of us has joined in with, they will have a far better idea of what made us tick.

Heart surgery on the 12th of December… Must get the Air Compass Type 5/17 finished. Might pay for the funeral…

I can only have been three or four when my Father did a ‘drop the hat’ from a Tiger Moth, at, I’d guess, Elstree. Don’t recall seeing him fly until I was about eleven and he returned to gliding Thereafter I grew up spending a lot of weekend at various gliding clubs. Austers, Cubs, Swallows, Darts, T21 and 31, Eon, Oly 460.

So it was immersion for me really. First Air Display was Farnborough in ’65 (I think). I don’t recall when exactly I saw my first Merlin powered products, but they are memorable in a different way. Warm Blooded aircraft?

If he thought that both compass and turn/slip were erratic, might he have been suffering Northerly turning error? (Dip correction in compass by means of a weight on the S end of the needle/card. Travelling North and sideslipping causes the heading to swing, because of the balance weight, and a pilot not knowing of this, and in poor viz, will follow the bearing indicated. Needle/card is effectively now locked, and he’s actually flying in circles).