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[Ontario-Warbird]

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Last edited by Ontario-Warbird on Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[RickH]

Err, Dave ? Maybe British ALueminium ?

[planeoldsteve]

No mosquitoes?

Steve

[RickH]

Steve, that would be British wood !

[planeoldsteve]

Steve, that would be British wood !

I thought we're being prejudice.

Steve

[Ontario-Warbird]

LOL wish I could have seen a Mossi. in the air, one day hopfully

Cheers Dave C

[Ztex]

[daveymac82c]

Hey Dave C,

Bob's Mossie should be getting into the air soon-ish. I'll give an update when I see him in the next few weeks.

Cheers,

David M

[MacHarvard]

For Ontario-Warbird: About 20 years ago, G-MOSI was being ferried from over 'ome to the museum at Dayton, Ohio. Out over the pond, she developed a little engine problem and the pilot landed in at Gander or St. John, Newfoundland (Steve Tournay, you've got the photographic memory - help me out here). I'm not sure who got the phone call, although seems to me it was Steve. Anyway, we found out she would be staging through Mount Hope (outside of Hamilton, Ontario) and would arrive late in the afternoon, so she'd be there the next morning, as well.

Well, Mr. Man, by the next morning, when she took off for her final leg to Wright-Pat, there must have been 1000 people on that airfield, including my wife, who barged up to the pilot and got herself plastered all over the media, while I got ready to shoot. The attached 2 shots were taken as MOSI taxied down to the end of the runway for takeoff.

The shot I missed (because the pilot surprised the hell out of all of us) was the pass down the runway at somewhere around the 50 foot mark! If you have never seen such a beautiful machine, with its synchronized Merlins, just a-howling down the flightline....you have something very exciting to look forward to.

PS: I guess I don't have to tell you what time of year it was?

Doug

[gregv]

Did someone say Blue Steel?




oh, sorry, my mistake....

[daveymac82c]

One look? #&%@#!!!!

-David

[Mudge]

Here's some British "aluminium" from the Science Museum in London. Sorry troops, but it's dark in there and I'm still on the upward leg of my photography learning curve.










Mudge the inept

[wardie]

Some of my British Steel/Aluminium/Wood/etc.

















Wardie

[Steve T]

Hey Doug (& Dave)--

Oh that takes me back. But I do remember finding out about the Mossie differently. And how. Here's what I recall happening:

Doug and I went up to the Hope, not in anticipation of seeing a Mossie, but rather to try to identify the airliner fuselage that had recently turned up on the new airport fire dump. Verdict? A freaking steel mockup...which would BTW still be there 20 years later! Just so as not to have the trip be a complete loss, we decided to drop in at CWH and see what, if anything, was new (in the dead of winter). I opened the little mandoor in one of the Hangar #3 doors and came face-to-port-spinner with what was new: a shiny deHavilland Mosquito B.35. I think that's still the closest I've come to experiencing a major cardiovascular event...I mean GEEZ--!!

Next morning, as Doug says, a TON of people turned up to see off G-MOSI (ex RS709) on her final flight to Dayton, BAe's George Aird at the pole. It was Sunday, February 3, 1985, vivid sunlight and COLD. Everyone's camera batteries were conking-out on them. Mr Aird made the very most of his departure from the Hope, performing three unforgettable passes, the last of which took the Mossie diagonally across the hangar line; from where I stood the Mossie disappeared from view behind Hgr#3, then a great cloud of snow rose off the roof from the slipstream as the song of the twin Merlins began to fade. (Someday I'm going to do a painting of that...)

Cool thread.

But where are the Furies??

S.

[Elroy13]