Name the Plane ?

Not a particular difficult one . I found this while browsing and thought it was a stunningly atmospsheric photo of this iconic plane........




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It is of course - A Mosquito PR.41 restored to display standard at the Australian War Memorial.
Mosquito PR Mk 41 : Two-seat photo-survey version for the RAAF. A total of 17 were built in Australia.
I don't think that there are any Mossys still flying are there ?

 

Armandii will know, he knows everything about Planes, Capney too

 

The wooden wonder. As a lad I used to watch one of these take off on a weather flight every day from the airfield at Rochester in Kent.
Wonderful.
I`m not aware of any flight fit Mossies anywhere. But I could be wrong. I often am.

 

Being still in my 30's one might expect me to have a preference for modern planes, but no, I just love the sound of the engines on those old WWII planes, Spitfires, Lancasters, Mosquitos etc... they just send shivers up my spine, awesome.

I remember a Lancaster flying "very" low over the fishing lake I used to manage a few years ago; it looked like it was only just clearing the trees!!, the sound though was amazing, those thunderous engines - wow, what a full squadron must have sounded like?, I can't imagine.....:thumb:

 

...nothing else to say but Awesome......

De Haviland Mosquitos and Supermarine Spitfires 2006-merlins - YouTube

 

Great video find Bilbo Loved it !

 

I took this picture back in 1984 at Mildenhall.

As far as I know it was the last one still flying then, and as John said I think it crashed a few years later.
Shame as it was the one and only time I saw a mossie in flight.

 

I'm not sure if this is relavant but I seem to remember the props spun in opposite directions.
Whether that is normal or not in multi-engined planes, I dont know.

I know the old Shackleton, ( another great old British marvel), had the contra rotating props on each engine.

Something to do with engine torque I think.

 

In the modelling club at R.A.F. Halton, there were loads of plywood coiled preformed into cylindrical sections for repairs to the mossie skin. Cheers, Tony.