Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:38 am
Mike Nixon is doing the engines.
Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:59 am
looks good to me !!! considering how long it takes to restore a warbird in general,what was the construction quality like when these aircraft were originally built ? my guess is that they were well built, but not as well built as they are today. i would think that with production under severe pressure to get them out and flying , there must have been some corners cut somewhere.
Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:50 am
Aircraft construction has very high and tight levels of tolerance requirements. Machinery today is capable of exceeding the high level of tolerance requirements of 65 years ago. So, you bet, they are better made today.
Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:37 pm
The Mosquito was built to very tight tolerances - but just remember that on a damp day, the wood would grow; on a dry day it would shrink.....
Try and factor that into mass production!
Try and factor that into mass production!
Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:25 pm
Bruce wrote:The Mosquito was built to very tight tolerances - but just remember that on a damp day, the wood would grow; on a dry day it would shrink.....
Try and factor that into mass production!
To a degree, boatbuilders have done that for years, although to be fair, it usually wasn't what we'd call "mas production" and/or didn't involve the same tolerances and small detail complexity.
Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:58 pm
I've been in Edmonton this week in the Lear and got to go to the Alberta Aviation Museum. Oh my god that fighter nosed Mosquito is awesome! They did a great job on it as it looks like it could be rolled out and engines started at a moment's notice. That eight gun nose looks especially nice on a Mossie. Overall it looks better than Kermit's with the small glass nose, the only other one I've seen.
Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:32 am
[quote="If you think she's beautiful, wait til you see and hear one flying. I haven't, but some on this post have, and they all say its magic.
http://www.mossie.org/images/VP189/Ron_ ... /VP189.jpg[/quote]
I've only seen one in flight once back in that 80's at the Hamilton Airshow, in formation with a Spit and Hurricane. Raise camera, focus, press shutter...arrggh end of film!
Still haunted by that one.
http://www.mossie.org/images/VP189/Ron_ ... /VP189.jpg[/quote]
I've only seen one in flight once back in that 80's at the Hamilton Airshow, in formation with a Spit and Hurricane. Raise camera, focus, press shutter...arrggh end of film!
Still haunted by that one.
Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:54 pm
Imagine how I felt. 1986(?) at what was then the Mosquito Museum, or similar. Two Mosquitos, T.III RR299 and Kermit's B.35 RS712 flying side by side. Raise camera, zoom to full frame, focus, press shutter - nothing, film not advanced. 
I bought a motor drive the next weekend.
I bought a motor drive the next weekend.
Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:01 pm
I see a small pic of the TFC P-40B on the side of this C. Maybe a sign of things to come? 
