Video: DeHavilland Mosquito gun camera film - excellent

[LetsTripOutAndDie]

http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/upload/thumb/52_10354.jpg (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/media/5852-DeHavilland-Mosquito-gun-camera-film-excellent) The de Havilland Mosquito was a British combat aircraft that excelled in versatility during the Second World War. It was known affectionately as the "Mossie" to its crews[3] and was also nicknamed "The Wooden Wonder" or "The Timber Terror" as the bulk of the aircraft was made of laminated plywood.[4]

Originally conceived as an unarmed fast bomber, the Mosquito was adapted to many other roles during the air war, including: low to medium altitude daytime tactical bomber, high altitude night bomber, pathfinder, day or night fighterhttp://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/images/play_thread.png (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/media/5852-DeHavilland-Mosquito-gun-camera-film-excellent)

[nuckfutz]

luvin the four .303 nosers and the four 20mm underbelly cannons

[nuckfutz]

wish my car had that sometimes

[ChapaWolf]

A unplanned advantage of this aircraft was it very small radar signature because it was made of wood. At a time when the major industrial material was steel there was a shit load of wood laying around. The brits used the same merlin supercharged watercooled 12 cylinder power plant in almost every aircraft. The P-51 british version used the motor this aircraft used 2 the spitfire and the other twin bomber used it as well.

[LetsTripOutAndDie]

The Horton brothers in Germany found this same fact out about wood decreasing the radar signature by similar means when they wanted to build a new plane but only material that wasn't reserved and back order for Germaine's war effort was wood from furniture makers and the laid off furniture makers also were used by the Horton brothers to build their plane because they had the materials and were experts in building with wood. The Horton brothers just pushed further then the British by designing the shape to also decrease the radar signature of their plane the Horton flying wing. Luckily for the allies the war ended before the Horton brothers could mass produce these planes and in the end they only finished building 2 or 3

[CadetSV63]

Superb versatile airplane... almost ahead of its time even tho still a prop plane.