These altimeters work on the aneroid principle and are known as simple altimeters the altimeter is calibrated to isothermal law which assumes a constant temperature of 10’c at all heights. This tends to give large errors. This altimeter was being replaced in operational aircraft at the outbreak of war. However they remained in service for many years and are sometimes seen in the pilots position in larger aircraft i.e. Sunderland and Stirling 🙂 Nice piece there will be a date on the face.

I just noticed its dated 1942 on the rear of the case but this is most likely a service date there should be another on the face that will be the date of manufacture, i would guess around 38/39.

Graham, which B&Q kitchen did you go for?

Couldnt tell you the wife chose it, its only chip board covered crap, they wanted 3K to fit it (thats £45 per hour give or take) 🙁 luckily i found a mate to do it, makes me think how much would all the projects you see on here really cost if you worked out the labour at £25 or £30+ an hour. You need much more skill than a Kitchen fitter i know that. The Mossey Rep might not be perfect but it took 10 years of pretty continuous work to make. Its gets a bit of a slating but who else world wide has had a goes at making a 1:1 Mosquito replica? in that respect i think its unique. I guess if you follow that to its logical conclusion its rarer than the real thing:diablo: To put things in perspective Whats a real mosquito worth? £1,000,000, £500,000 I dont know, for that you could have two or three complete Squadrons of replicas so I reckon its good value.

Kitchen or Mosquito?????

Mike

This already has debated see previous threads, its not perfect but its pretty close. would cost a small fortune to build from scratch, just had a quote from B&Q for a new kitchen they want 6.8K for as load of veneered chipboard, sort of puts the price/value of this replica in proportion. 😮