Thanks Mr 12 😉
I always appreciate your tremendous depth of knowledge on this subject, as well as your willingness to share it on the forums.
Regards

Andy

“Mosquito Squadron” seems to have surfaced again at the top of the military movies channels. Having been on a B17 I never understood why the Mosquito, which was faster, more able, and carried a larger bombload didn’t replace it.

I was touring a B-17 with an American friend of mine who was also the crew chief of maintenance of that fort at the time.
I always like to tease Americans by saying things like, “the B-17 is a real good, 4 engine, medium bomber”.
I commented that the Mosquito could take the same payload, the same distance with only two crew.
His reply was “yeah, but they could never put up a raid of a thousand Mosquitos!”

True enough!

Always sorry to hear of such misfortunes. It really is a drag.
More importantly, I’m always glad to hear that no one was seriously hurt.
That truly is the most important thing.

Here’s wishing for a speedy recovery.

Andy

I was at Oshkosh in 1994.
They had ten corsairs flying around the pattern at that one.
Awesome sight and great to hear that it may happen again.

Andy

Aren’t Jablo propeller blades an example of this type of technology?

Andy

I second the Tamiya clear red. That’s immediately what I thought of.
I used it to make a red lens for my head lamp, for use while night flying. It worked a treat.
You need to see in the cockpit, but, you don’t want to lose your night vision.

Still watching. Still enjoying.

Andy

This isn’t a Spitfire, sorry, but if you want to hear a Merlin at full giddy-up like P&P just described go to the 05:00 minute mark of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE9re9BqSIo