A Mosquito flying in the first wave of the attack struck a tall lamp-post and crashed into a nearby Catholic school (the French school). Mosquitos of the third wave bombed this area by mistake, killing 86 children, 10 nuns, 8 teachers, and 21 other civilians; no civilians had been killed during the main attack.
Renown warbird pilots Keith Skilling and Dave Phillips put the Jerry Yagen-owned de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito through its paces and then come in to land sever
It has been calculated that a Mosquito could be loaded with a 4,000 lb. "cookie" bomb, fly to Germany, drop the bomb, return, bomb up and refuel, fly to Germany again and drop a second 4,000 lb bomb and return, and still land before a Stirling (the slowest of Bomber Command's four-engined bombers) which left at the same time armed with a full
Long before the advent of smart bombs or laser-guided ordnance, the de Havilland Mosquito was flying the 1940s equivalent of surgical air strikes.On Sept. 25, 1942, a group of four Mosquitoes from RAF 105 Squadron flew more than 500 miles across the North Sea from Great Britain to Norway. Their target was the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo.
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The de Havilland Mosquito was the anti-Fortress, a bomber proposed to the Royal Air Force with speed as its salvation, not guns. Many forget that the Mosquito turned out to be the first of its kind and the B-17 the last of its line. Never since have bombers truly been armed defensively.
The largest amount of remains existing of a d H Hornet/Sea Hornet have been purchased from Canada by Pioneer Aero in NZ to be restored & to fly. The timescale is said to be 3 years.
1951–1967. Number built. 466. Developed from. DHC-2 Beaver. Developed into. DHC-6 Twin Otter. The de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter is a single-engined, high-wing, propeller -driven, short take-off and landing ( STOL) aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada. It was conceived to be capable of performing the same roles as the earlier and highly
The British has just the plane, the De Havilland Mosquito. An outstanding twin-engine fighter-bomber armed with 4 machine guns and 4 cannons, and able fly faster than 400 mph. By this time of the of the war, the Mosquito had proven to be one the best airplanes in the war, on either side. RAF pilot Percy “Pick” Pickard.
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