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Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:25 pm
Hey, that's pretty awesome news! I can't wait to see that beautiful plane back in one piece!
Peace,
David
Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:04 pm
Full set of pictures here:
http://www.archerphotoworks.ca/museum/Mosquito/index.html
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peter on Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:25 am, edited 1 time in total.
Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:16 pm
That link is not working for me.
Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:35 pm
Take the dot off the end.
Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:26 am
Thanks bdk, corrected link was sent to me this morning and I have fixed it..
Posted here just in case..
[url]http://www.archerphotoworks.ca/museum/Mosquito/index.html
Full set of pictures here:
http://www.archerphotoworks.ca/museum/Mosquito/index.html [/url]
Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:37 am
I'm sure this museum is a great place and the people are all wonderful, but I can't help but think how sad it is that the Mosquito is now in this museum. If it had gone to the buyer in the UK, it would be on its way back to flying condition. Now it will be a Mosquito with a pin driven through her back and stuck on a piece of cardboard like its much less attractive insect namesake.
Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:40 am
bombadier29 wrote:I'm sure this museum is a great place and the people are all wonderful, but I can't help but think how sad it is that the Mosquito is now in this museum. If it had gone to the buyer in the UK, it would be on its way back to flying condition. Now it will be a Mosquito with a pin driven through her back and stuck on a piece of cardboard like its much less attractive insect namesake.
Really? Considering the difficult environmental conditions this particular airframe has endured, I would be surprised to find that much of her structure could be restored to flying condition without being fully replaced. Considering that we are about to see a small renaissance of flying mosquitoes in the next few years, built up from the remains of a number of different aircraft, I don't see the point in throwing out a rare original airframe when it could readily be restored to pristine static condition without too much structural replacement. We can restore the "bitsas" to flying condition without worrying about losing original material, and add to the number of authentic mosquitoes on view to the public... after all, it's only people like us who would gawk over a much decayed aircraft. I am so tired of the "we have to restore them all" chorus. There is room for both flying and static examples.
Richard
Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:21 pm
RMAllnutt wrote:I am so tired of the "we have to restore them all" chorus. There is room for both flying and static examples.
I'm not really a "we have to restore them all" guy. I happen to think some airplanes should be left static. This particular one bothers me because, as I recall, nobody was too concerned about it until they found out somebody outside of Canada was trying to buy it. Suddenly it became very important to move it to this museum. That was tried with the MOF Connie as well.
I just think it would have been nice for the brits to have a flying Mosquito again and this one would have been it.
Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:06 pm
Who said anything about a dead static aircraft? Ground running may be a possiblity depending on what they find..
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