De Havilland Mosquito - Tour Part 1 - Kermie Cam
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2013
- When I was at the EAA Museum recently, I did a "Kermie Cam" tour of our DeHavilland Mosquito. Thought you all might find it interesting. The tour will be up in three parts. At some point, I hope to have it flying again. Enjoy.
(Part 1 of 3 Parts.)
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Kermit, Thank you for making the videos about the Mosquito. I looked at it each time that I visited Oshkosh, and I always wanted to see what was inside. I also wanted to know why it was not flying. I appreciate your taking time to do this type of thing.
If I were to choose one plane to get to fly in my life, it would be the Mosquito.
In early to mid sixties I worked for a boat builder (UK).. although I didn't know it at the time the glue we used was the same, or similar as used on the Mosquito. It was a two pack glue, a white powder that turned translucent when mixed with water and a green watery activator. When the two were brought together it set very rapidly, especially in warm, hot weather.... When cured completely the wood would break before the glued joint.. Love watching your aviation videos. especially your preflight explanation of what's going on and the flight..Wonderful.
My ex father-in-law worked on the Mossie at the Dehavilland works in London during the war...heard some amazing stories
During WW2 my Grandfather worked in the factory just north of Toronto that made the landing struts for the DeHavilland Mosquito. You said that one was 70 years old (at the time of recording), so yes, 1943 would have been right. If those struts are original, I can't help thinking that he may have had his hands on them. Amazing!
Randall Hawes Small world huh?
That distinctive smell that you get with the Mosquito probably comes from its wooden construction. They used Formaldehyde in the adhesive resins used in the construction of the fabricated plywood panels which the Mosquito was largely made of. Formaldehyde was used as a binding agent in pressed-wood products. A Urea glue was applied to one wooden surface and the Formaldehyde catalyst brushed onto the other and the pieces of wood clamped together, creating a waterproof bond stronger than the wood itself. That's your smell.
Hey Kermit!
Excellent in depth 'Kermie Cam' of the magnificent Mosquito.
Years back when I was involved in voluntary warbird re-builds I seem to remember this bird being flown down from Strathalan Collection in Scotland to Blackbush aerodrome in Hampshire UK (where Doug Arnold stored his collection for a while) for its final fit out before the long haul across the pond to the States. As I remember she took the Northern route via Greenland with additional tanks fitted.
Be great to hear back from anyone that may remember this?
THank you Kermit Sir, for a thorough , detailed and very interesting demonstration and description, of my favourite War Bird. I loved your flight Video too, of the Planes history and creation, it was dated 1989.
The most beautiful aircraft ever built.
My great uncle flew these in ww2 for the RCAF. Unfortunately was shot down on his birthday. Amazing piece sir:)
I would love to see this DH Mosquito restored and flown again! an amazing aircraft and quite the story of how it was made during WWII... thanks for the wonderful video.
Beautiful!... we have had a Mosquito restored recently in NZ! 👍🇳🇿
Great video thank you. My dad was a navigator on Mozzies during WW2. My favourite plane by a mile
Thanks Kermit!!! Always a joy to watch your videos and see your collection. I'm glad there are people like you out there preserving history at a high standard. Your planes are immaculate!!
@12:17 "The British would probably have Scones there" LOL LOL!
That was a really funny off the cuff remark
made me smile--cos it's true
Great series of videos Kermit but I laughed my a...e off at your suggestion that in the location reserved for "Rations", there would be "scones". The thought of the crew applying jam and cream to their scones as they sip their tea, whilst all the while hurtling to Deutschland on a do or die mission is truly one for Monty Python.
I remember seeing this beautiful aircraft fly many years ago at ( iirc ) RAF Church Fenton. Definitely was this one and not the ill fated RR299 that sadly crashed kiling both crew.. It still had the nose glazing painted over and dummy .303 gun berrels added for filming 633sqn. It would be awesome to see it back up where it belongs.
Outstanding video, like all the others! Thank you for taking the time to educate the rest of us aviation enthusiasts!
A unique internal tour of the rear part of the Mosquito. Wonderful. Thanks for sharing. Great stuff.
Wow! Another amazing video. Thanks, Kermit.
This plane is insane, that painting is fantastic.
Thank you for sharing in such detail. Thank you very very much. Fascinating to see it through your eyes, telling me I need to see . . . . .. Thank you for your passions for it all.
The first real multipurpose aircraft, from good to outstanding in all its mks. The fastest in the world for a period. The
best of the best.
I'm loving this behind the scene tour! Thanks, Kermit!!!
A wonderful and informative tour of a beautiful aircraft. Great stuff, thank you.
Absolutely fantastic video thanks for sharing the history of the aircraft probably one of my favourites, just her sitting there in the museum gets me excited to think will she get back up in the air.
I love the Mossie. I saw you and it at Lakeland one year but I do not recall what year.
I think it is so necessary to have someone like you to lay out the history, not but a handful of people can do what you do.
Excellent and informative video! I have long been a fan of the Mossie. For several years I worked with one of the original mechanics who serviced these at DH Downsview in Toronto during WW2. Greatly enjoyed visit to Fantasy of Flight (our winter home is Davenport, FL) and plan to return. Keep up the good work!
I was at that show at the CWH! Nothing like 8 merlies roaring through the sky at the same time.. Awesome! Luckily I get to see the Lanc fly regularly..
Are you in Hamilton Neil? I grew up in Mount Hope. In fact, they put the new runway right through our house!!
Really enjoyed this little feature. I had the pleasure of seeing RS712 and RR299 fly in formation at the 1987 Biggin Hill Air Fair - the last time two Mossies have ever flown in formation.
Fantastic videos, thanks for taking time out.
Thank you for posting this, I have not had a walk around like this of the Mosquito before. I hope you get it flying, I've not seen any other of your videos yet to know. Thank you :)
Kermit, your "Kermie Cam" videos are a national treasure. I can tell that you are born to teach. Please keep the "Kermie Cam" videos coming. I can't wait to visit Orlampa, FLA.
this is amazing, thank you Kermit. Fantastic!
I first saw this Mosquito in 1979 at the Strathelen Museum in Scotland. Look forward to checking it out again at Air Venture 2018
I remember that airshow . Year was 1986 . Thank you .
Many Thanks, look forward to seeing her. I have seen most of the surviving Lancaster’s.
Great videos
Hi Kermit,thanks for great informative videoing.In 1954 I was finishing my `Air Wireless Mechanic` course at RAF Yatesbury in Wiltshire county,UK,Almost the last task was to practice using the air wireless equipment in the night version Mosquito,,it was equiped with Radar;the viewing scope in right hand seat. Chas[ex 3141983].
Today is my 34th birthday sir, I had a lot of fun sitting here and watching your videos.
Joel You’re are now 39, I hope the 5 years have been very good ones. Happy Birthday Mate
What a GREAT guy Kermit is. Keep up the Great work Kermit, We are all listening and watching, from the UK, Near Duxford air Museum Essex England.
Stunning bit of kit!
You mention how the fusalage is made in 2 halves [just like a model kit], Kemit When it came to the wings unlike a model kit they were had a single spar that ran wingtip to wingtip, swith the fusalage having a cut out section that slotted over/across the wings and bomb bay.
GREAT video Kermit Weeks, can't wait to see the plane.
Excellent, thanks for the tour. My grandfather worked on them during the war. He got an award from DH for some design change he made on the wings. I have it somewhere. He also got shot at by German planes while up on the factory roof making repairs.
Excellent tour....thank you.
This is wonderful viewing,I admire so much what this gentleman has done.It is soo sad that you don't ever see a Mosquito over the skies of England these days.
WELL---THE PEOPLES MOSQUITO' IS STILL IN PROGRESS, THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SPEED PROGRESS UP, IS FURTHER DONATIONS. YOU CAN DO IT ONLINE.
New fuselage and wing from New Zealand. There is completely re-fuselage’d and re-winged Mosquito in Virginia Beach air museum it’s better than new. The glue could let go on an old fuselage and would blow apart. It’s happened in the past. Great black and white vids on YOuTube on the build and operation.
Loving these warbird and vintage aircraft walkarounds Kermit. Hope to see a Kermey Cam of you flying this bird
Don't suppose you have a spare 57mm Molins gun laying around somewhere?
I was at the airport in Hamilton the day you brought it over. Very cool!!!!
Awesome look inside the plane!
I wonder about the Mossies from 633 Squadron , all types . One of favorite movies . Love the Mosquito. Thank you.
Believe it or not they were pretty worthless then. Lots were buried or burned just to get rid of them.
Great video again Kermit!! Love the Mosquito, would to see one flying here in the UK.
Beautiful AERO plane!
Very cool video, thanks so much for sharing. In 1988-91 I lived less than a quarter of a mile due south of Richards Field in Homestead (where I was taking flying lessons). One day I heard the unmistakeable sound of a war bird flying overhead. I went outside and looked up just in time to see this aircraft passing over. That was quite a thrill. I hope you can get it back in the air again one day.
Really look forward to seeing this restored. Another visit across the pond to FoF is in order soon I think!
I was just waiting for an EAA docent to come running over upon seeing somebody's feet hanging out of the Mosquito... :-) Great video, thanks!
Kermit. Thanks for the wonderful view inside the Mosquito
Even if it's light hearted don't poke fun of the British in a Mosquito video, this is one of the few aircraft America ever bought for us and it was a world beater, in its roll no other aircraft ever matched it. Try flying a twin fighter bomber at treetop level down a Berlin street and landing a pair of 500lb bombs in the front door of a Gestapo headquarters without hitting the surrounding houses, then flying home safely to British soil in any other aircraft, Mossie was a war winner!
Mosquitos were famously used to raid Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen and Aarhus, but not Berlin. One of the planes in the Copenhagen raid crashed into a girls' boarding school, resulting in 125 civilian deaths. But the raid on the Gestapo was a success
Mosquito's did bomb Berlin.
They were the first to bomb berlin during the day,Goering was going to get on national radio but because of the raid they had to push back the broadcast for a hour
You can look up Goering's comment about the Mosquito. He was very pissed that Britain could produce such a thing with furniture makers (!) while his own Luftwaffe couldn't catch it.
ThePeople's Panzer
Sorry but I don't understand what you meant by
"....one of the few aircraft America ever bought from us..." I thought it was Canadian effort. Please explain.
I was at that Canadian Warplane Heritage airshow in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada that you mention, where Vera Lynn was the guest entertainer, signing "The White Cliffs of Dover" and your Mosquito was the other star attraction...what a show! Hope you get that Mosquito flying again soon, and bring it back to Canada for an encore! Can't wait!
Awesome story. Good job.
Great Video , great that these aircraft still survive , best wishes from Dundee
Scotland .
as of today---3 beauts flying, one getting close
As always, a wonderful video, Kermit. You've certainly got it "stored" at a good place.
This Mosquito is priceless; having less than 3 worldwide in flying condition, are you really going to risk flying this once
it is restored? It is a shame to not fly them when they are airworthy but having so few left, it is really priceless. Cheers to you, Kermit.
I spoke via email to one of your staff a couple of years ago concerning the handwritten flight log for the transatlantic flight from Strathallan, which I own, he told me that you have sufficient information for this aircraft but as things do change I wanted to check again that you are happy without it, it is nice to see live images of it finally, you have an amazing organisation in your Fantasy of Flight museum, there are not many working flight museums in the world, keep up the great work !!!
Great tour! Thank you 👍🏼
My absolute favourite WW2 airplane. The first truly multi role combat aircraft.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and high standards 👍
We were there in 1983 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum on,"Fathers Day". I have pictures(6?) of the Mosquito(above) you were in that day. My Uncle Roy(Maxwell) served in the RCAF during WW2 and lived on the Mount Hope Aerodrome grounds with his wife Aunt Kelly during the war. He was an Officer and was the head of RCAF for Supply and Services during the BCATP. He had all the aircraft maintained, repaired and serviced during that time for all of southern Ontario. We were all alot younger.
Thank you for the video.
So much informations that it would be impossible for many of us to learn ellse where.
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Thank you for all your awesome videos I look forward to everyone . And hope to meet you one day
Beautiful plane. Great history
Thanks for posting these Kermit very interesting indeed.
great video to watch
wow an amazing aircraft
that was a fantastic tour , very insightful, and congratulations for owning a beautiful plane. the only negative was the fisheye lens gave me motion sickness!
Cool, great video!! Love how you show every nook and cranny! You sir have a great life to be able to intake that smell of the Mosquito. I am obsessed with WW2 aircraft! Would love to partake one day.
Pure gold!
I read somewhere that the plywood held up really well with battle damage.
'What would the British keep there? .............scones! ' ....... lol (and I'm British)- great video, wonderful aircraft!
Scones and some tea bags, for shure !
Those fuel tanks on the underside of the wing were often cannibalized by Brits and used as motorcycle sidecar bodies. To this day they manufacture fiberglass sidecar bodies to that exact shape at, www.watsonian-squire.com/meteor/ I love the Mosquito.
A Mosquito will be at the Geneseo airshow in July. Good timing for a walk around. Hope I can make it out there. Keep them coming Kermit.
Nice video. Also entertaining. Keep the good work up.
Its amazing how little props this plane is given compared to others when it was such an amazing plane.
Wonderful. " Ok, to lose some serfs..."" Oreo Cookies..." Learned so much and so fun to watch. Now, part 2...
Interesting that the pilot's seat had armour but the navigator's seat did not!
Beautiful bird!
Kermit as an old guy I enjoy your videos immensely. Hope you can keep at it
Wood and glue have an interesting relationship with atmospheric conditions. Using glues that react with water and air means a limited and unpredictable lifespan! Service life for these airframes was not expected to be more than ten years or so, lots were scrapped after glue failures in tropical conditions. Perhaps modern glues would last longer.... trouble is, you have to build new aircraft from scratch!
Mosquitos in the India-Burma theater had to be withdrawn from service after a relatively short period when the glue began to degrade and the plywood started to delaminate. The squadrons got their old Beaufighters back.
In my humble opinion this WW2 aircraft was the best of the lot ,it could cover any of the roles needed well .
RS 712 is one of the aircraft that once flew with No. 3 CAACU (Civilian Anti Aircraft Cooperation Unit) at Exeter in the UK doing target towing ... I can remember as a young lad often seeing them flying and the sad day in 1963 when all the remaining flyable ones took off and flew in formation across the city. Fortunately a number of them (all Mark TT35's) survive ... TA634 at the DeHavilland Heritage Centre, TJ138 at Hendon, TA639 at Cosford and TA719 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
My uncle made parts for Mosquito's in North London during WW11
Hey Kermit. I just saw your Mosquito on American Pickers on the History channel. I watched your video and when I looked at the tv they were at the Eaa museum and I saw it in the background.
Have seen a Mossie flying over here in the UK, there's a few about in museums but everyone here is obsessed with Spitfires!
Anyways, lovely to see inside one, and nice to see an owner who sees it as a nice thing, not something to be fawned over and cosseted, love the fact he has no idea what some of the stuff does
PS: we have Oreos over here...
This is great. I'm really looking forward to parts 2 and 3 now. I really didn't know you had a Mossie. Would be great to see it flying again. Back in the air where it belongs. So are we ever going to see some of these aircraft in the skies over the UK?
The Mossie is the most underrated Aircraft of WW2 it is a beast, it flew some of the most daring raids during WW2 and soon UK will have a flying version👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
I just finish watching Mosquito Wooden Wonder on VHS taped off History Channel years ago they cover the raid on Gestpo headquarters I am building the 1\48 tamiya FB Mk .VI Mosquito good day stay the course Bruce
Dalle Smalhals you know what he means. You always hear about mainstream aircraft like the spitfire ,p51, b17 ect but you never or rarely hear the glory stories of de havillands wooden wonder
fantastic
Able to afford a DeHavilland Mosquito at 30 years old. I'm 35 and can barely afford my effing Volkswagen..... Screw my life!!
He came from an extremely wealthy family.
thanks to Australian oil in Bass Strait ... :)
Gets oil and gas royalties he inherited, this is why he can afford to run his 1:1 scale plane collection.
Start looking for other opportunities to supply people with the things that they need, want or desire. America is the land of opportunity.
Peace.
salemcripple Go into ilegal Drug Business you will really get rich. 😆.......
Love the comment about the scones in the ration box. They would have probably had cheese and pickle sandwiches and a lump of pork pie!
Funny, Kermit pronounces scones as an
‘Oh’ sound, most of us pronounce it with an “on” sound.
This man is incredible, his life makes me feel ashamed i didnt follow my dreams. Inspirational.
It would be great to see your mosquito flying again ,liked your flying videos of this Plane