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Old 09-28-2012, 07:43 AM   #852
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The Kiwis have the ONLY flying Mosquito in the world, after a painstaking 8 year rebuild it made its first couple of flights on September 27th:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeHavilland_Mosquito

The Mosquito has always been one of my favorite WWII aircraft, beautiful lines, fast, and could carry a bomb load almost as large as the B-17's. It pissed of Goering so much that he actually had this rant about it during the war:

"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked."

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