Will have to add another classic to the list
Mosquito T3
much used by AFSs etc plus most squadrons had one for continuation training.
I had a few adventures in one.
Love your pic! Where and when?
Near Gt Yarmouth Oct 1954, soon after joining 152. Taken on a 6 x 6 Agfa Isolette folding camera on slow Agfa film. I took two shots, the other print I gave to the Elvington people when I visited several years ago.
PageNo1. That Wimpy was ISTR a Mk 18, but the Mk 17 was also used for AI Mk10 so would have had a similar nose. I guess they were conversions from earlier marks hence the two different mark numbers
Brewerjerry. Yes that is ZQ coded, the serial letters are unreadable, but the number is 128 if that is any help
How about the gentlemans aeroplane that I flew in sometimes
I wouldn’t call the radome on the Wimpy a pimple. Was led to believe that is was borrowed from a Mossie.
See pic lifted from a book here
Looks more like a boil to me LOL
How right you are Graham
But it is the best joke in a long time.
And to pagen01 list must be added
Ansons T20, T21, and T22 for bombing, navigation, and signaller training.
Wellingtons T17 and T18 for NF radar training
and there are doubtless many more in different roles and at different times.
Should keep him going for a few days
Of course these special weapons could only be dropped from Mosquitos
Sorry, to my eye the P38 was stationary on the ground. Note that the starboard spinner and upper engine cowling are also damaged, possibly the fuselage nosecone as well. A mid air would have curled up the prop, not just a simple bend, and the resultant landing would have been catastrophic. Taxying accident for sure.
Todays Mail on Sunday has a centrespread featuring this model…fantastic.
Has that man got microscopes built in to those glasses????? The detailing in the ammo belt alone must take months. Most remarkable.
ISTR in the 40s and 50s somebody used to race a car powered by a merlin. The Swandean Spitfire or something similar, saw it at Brands Hatch.
For me it has to be a Mosquito, preferably a bullnose night fighter. Followed by a Meteor NF14, the most elegant of the type. And for sheer contrast the brutal Bristol Brigand.
For those who say Stuka, I would arrange for them to fly in it and have someone shoot it down, since the age of 8 I have never wanted to hear of such a monstrosity.
A further thought … are we properly training today’s youngsters to bend the metal and craft the wood, or are these vital skills being lost? 🙁
You must remember that in the ultra politically correct, raving Elfin Safety era we are now entering that:–
(a) Bending metal etc is far too dangerous for youngsters to even watch, let alone attempt and
(b) The word “war”, as in warbird, is to be totally erased from all printed, written, spoken, or electronically transmitted matter.
So the simple answer is “No”, these artifacts will die with our generation.
I don’t know about then but when the jets arrived RAF pilots were asked to please bring the drop tanks back except in dire emergencies owing to their expense and being in short supply. Makes you want to laugh doesn’t it?
ISTR with the Meteor NF there was a speed restriction with drop tanks because they had the nasty habit of the noses collapsing if made to go above about Mach 0.73, especially when empty.