RAAF Museum's Mosquito rebuild…

[ARCHIE_CALVERT]

Got some nice photo’s of the rebuild, to see go here:

http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=596&start=0&...order=asc&highlight= (http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=596&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=)

[ARCHIE_CALVERT]

Got some nice photo’s of the rebuild, to see go here:

http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=596&start=0&...order=asc&highlight= (http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=596&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=)

[AustinPowers_]

Sweet!

[major_setback]

Nice photographs.
Can't wait to fly it! Thank Lord for this game. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif

[Low_Flyer_MkII]

Marvelous impression of the wooden construction from the photographs.
Good on yer, Cobbers! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif

[Stackhouse25th]

and 10 years from now it will crash and will need to go through the process again.

[PBNA-Boosher]

Imagine, in a million or so years, after we've all blown ourselves to smithereens:

Aliens come to earth and find the petrified remains of a Mosquito airplane. God I'd love to see that.

[NAFP_supah]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Stackhouse25th:
and 10 years from now it will crash and will need to go through the process again. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Try reading the posts and not just watching the images, It wont fly as some of the parts are too damaged to take dynamic loads on the airframe.

[Waldo.Pepper]

What are these orange thingies?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/JDK2/RAAFM_Mosquito/DSCF0072.jpg

[major_setback]

Mosquito walk around:

http://cybermodeler.com/aircraft/mosquito/mossie_walkaround.shtml

[major_setback]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Waldo.Pepper:
What are these orange thingies?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/JDK2/RAAFM_Mosquito/DSCF0072.jpg </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

According to this picture they are 'feathering switches' (sounds strange):

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/CommunityMemories/AECZ/00aa/image/original/AECZ00aa00eh.jpg

From this site which has loads of old photographs of construction etc.

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=thumbnail_gallery...sh&ex=00000192&pos=1 (http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=thumbnail_gallery&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000192&pos=1)

ex:

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/CommunityMemories/AECZ/00aa/image/slide/AECZ00aa00dw.jpg

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/CommunityMemories/AECZ/00aa/image/original/AECZ00aa00ix.jpg

China 1948:

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/CommunityMemories/AECZ/00aa/image/original/AECZ00aa00la.jpg

[bolillo_loco]

Waldo.Pepper, I hope that this answers your question. I found this picture at the museum's official website.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/bolillo_quemado/mosquitoataridashboard.jpg

[major_setback]

They can be seen in these pictures.



http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/CommunityMemories/AECZ/00aa/image/original/AECZ00aa00ej.jpg


http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/CommunityMemories/AECZ/00aa/image/original/AECZ00aa00el.jpg

[p1ngu666]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by bolillo_loco:
Waldo.Pepper, I hope that this answers your question. I found this picture at the museum's official website.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/bolillo_quemado/mosquitoataridashboard.jpg </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif