And Complete DH Bullshite. The vast majority of Mosquito missions to Berlin only carried 2000lb of bombs, not a Cookie.

And a load of tosh, that doesn't match reality. Volkert came up with bomber with no defensive guns in May 1937 when designing a bombef to meet the P13/36 Specification.

@@richardvernon317 COMPLETE ??????????? so is the shite in your skull.

That's what separates real great men from the fake ones so much in abundance nowadays.

@@sachinmali74 ABSOLUTELY 💯%👍

Its the other way round now. We build Morris Marinas while they build BMWs.

@@taketimeout2share Because after the war Germany and Japan were "prohibited" from making munitions and invested into heavy industry and we carried on making cars through private enterprise and they had the help of their respective governments we end up with cars.motorcycles and electronics trouble was different British governments open the "floodgates" to foreign imports and destroyed our car and motorcycle industry and now left with imports

@@taketimeout2share Nein--we only build Quality Cars, owned by foreigner's.

Boy that brings a memory of the video about Ford's river Rouge with the high school band playing the same song over and over, out of tune the whole time

I quite enjoyed the songs. Plenty of potential samples !

Quite agree, well worth watching .

THEE most informative documentary , out of many. Despite a fact or two needing confirmation. Given the fact, that this filmed documentary, was made at a time, when all information, was hard to collate anyway.

The Lancaster had four if I’m not mistaken 🤔

"a Wizard of an engine" - Barnes Wallace

@@davidhorn6008 Yes, even though it was, of course, named after the bird of prey.

I never put it together, just merely saved it after I used to original in the production on my book on the aircraft! Glad you enjoyed it!

Alumin(i)um was all used for the other planes. When you do not paint a wooden airplane, and you park it in the rain, it is gone in no time. An alumin(i)um plane can be repaired after such stupid behaviour. And, do you have any idea how much hours or money the maintenance of TWO Rolls-Royce "Spitfire" engines will cost you? Who is gonna pay? THAT was the problem, nobody really needed those old planes. And yes, that was a waste, I think every true pilot wants a Mosquito, when they have flown one for only 5 minutes.

Yes, it does seem unforgiveable, but the same happened to many Great Planes, like the Mk3 Halifax. Most were also scrapped, in May 1945, or sold to other, smaller Airforces. It was the advent of the Jet engine, that became their death knell.

And still tells lies. Volkert came up with idea of the bomber with no defensive guns and using speed as it's only defensive (that was in May 1937 in response to P13/36). The Air Mi ist issued B9/38 for a medium bomber capable of lifting 4,000 lb of bombs made out of wood and non-strategic metals.

The voice and music are greatly appreciated. = how things were conveyed back then. So get use to it.

@@neiloflongbeck5705 Look old son, it NEVER HAPPENED, having ideas is great, it's getting block'eads to grasp the value of it. Nobody discovered that quicker, than Jet Engine inventor, English Hero, Frank Whittle. Result? our first Jet fighter was first flown on the 15th May, 1941. ten years after his prototype engine was demonstrated.

@@MrDaiseymay just pointing out the lies being out in this film. Pity you can't get your head around that fact.

Many Restoration places are building molds to copy the airframes. A place in NZ has built 3 airworthy Mozzi's already. Place in England is building molds now. Kermit Weeks has an Original in Oshkosh Wisconsin. It hasn't flown since 9-11 I believe.

I'd say the most effective. I mean, show me another plane you could stick a 4" naval gun on and it would still be a viable gun platform 🙂

Loved the Tsetse version they did that thing was so tooled up it had muscles on its muscles lol

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@@DidMyGrandfatherMakeThis They did a similar thing to the North American B-25 Mitchell, but then, it wasn't as fast as a Mossie.

Sadly an over reliance on out dated or floored concepts only truly obvious in hindsight. Too late to save many brave young men.

I disagree. The design mission for the Fortress and the Mosquito was very different. The former, strategic. The latter, tactical. There were no comparable construction facilities in the UK to manufacture thousands of Mosquitoes as there existed in the US for the Boeing product. Vastly different procurement and financial-backing as well. England was heavily dependent on US banks extending massive loans for their wartime production. In the US, this reality took advantage of a deep pool in domestic taxation and deficit spending. English finance operated under a vastly different structure.

I think you mean "Flying Porcupine" but I have similar sentiments.

In the UK I think they called them hedgehogs (no porcupines here) I suspect the Americans might have called them that but I don’t think they used them like the coastal command for convoy protection.around the UK. I could be wrong though.

I was going by what the Germans used to call them (I don't know if they have Porcupines in Germany or not). This was because of the many defensive guns they had (although you probably already know that) and it was the Germans who were on the receiving end of those guns. I was going to put an emoji in with my original message but YT don't have a porcupine their list of emoji's, only a hedgehog !!

Why so surprised they were made of wood. metal was the new technology the problem was getting the right wood Norway supply cut and us and Canadian wood fight for space on ships fetching food arms and oil obvious choice build them in Canada FYI it's one of my favourite planes ever made such a same there isn't one in the memorial flight for it truly did take the war to Germany

​@@redrb26dett One of the biggest problems was getting the Wood, 80% plus of the trees used to provide the wood for this aircraft DID NOT GROW IN THE UK!!! There is a File at the UK National Archives that covers research into replacing the Balsa wood with a calcium alginate foam during 1943. Most likely because U-boats were sinking the ships carrying it from Ecuador. Of course after May 1943, not so much of a problem.

Air Ministry: "Could you perhaps add drop tanks to extend the range?" DeHavilland: "Oh sure...just need a bit of paper and Bob's your uncle."

Of course it was kill or be killed!!

Fun fact: it was played through their headsets as battle was joined.

Nazis weren't people - they were a disease. That disease is still around.

A10 is a great aircraft but nowhere near as versatile as the Mosquito was in it's day...Long range bomber, photo reconnaissance , fighter, fighter bomber, night fighter, intruder, in fact the only role it didn't generally carry out was ground attack and ground support which is the A10's mission. Ground attack was generally left to single seaters eg Typhoon.

Frank Jenkins. Great pity it couldn’t have the same gun

@@glyndavis3439 Actually the FB Mk. VI could carry eight 60lb. rockets, making a good ground attacker.

@@glyndavis3439 The other role it played was as a high-speed passenger plane ferrying VIPs eg- between Sweden and the UK.

400 mph for 5 minutes max. Cruising speed was 325 mph

I was a kid then by the way I now am retired as a pilot because of John...he hate being called 'Cats Eyes' by the way I better pilot I never met

@MichaelKingsfordGray ??????

Here is the solution: Click on the Settings button ⚙and select the speed of 0.75 (three-quarters speed).

Jay Bee: That's a typical BBC accent during WW2.

Here is the solution: Click on the Settings button ⚙and select the speed of 0.75 (three-quarters speed).

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I have thought the ply came from Canada. Safer, but still doesn't answer the metric question.

@@ripsumrall8018 I didn't know about Canada. Britain got it's ball bearings from Sweden which was neutral. I suspect they used all sources. But I found that interesting

Check out Gregs Airplanes for the British Mosquito Timber from US, The Canadian from Pacific North West, Australien homegrown. And EVERYONE got balsa from Equador.

Please respect that in war time Britain this 'crisp and clear' 'recieved pronunciation' was considered the MOST proper English.

I suspect that we are seeing and hearing this film at a faster speed than which it was shot & recorded at.

Here is the solution: Click on the Settings button ⚙and select the speed of 0.75 (three-quarters speed).

Do you have a link to that please?

Here is the solution: Click on the Settings button ⚙and select the speed of 0.75 (three-quarters speed).

More than 30 now ???? Why ???? Maybe I'm stupid? ??

Just the usual Brit haters.

Robert Speight.

@MichaelKingsfordGray guess who looks like the moron

Recorded on analog equipment 70 years ago and coming to my old ears out of a phone speaker I understood evry word.

@@George.Andrews.I didn't say I didn't understand the narration. I only said he sounded like Alvin's cousin.

@MichaelKingsfordGray hope you don't have any children.

The music is what was applied at the making - it is not my addition.

Here is the solution: Click on the Settings button ⚙and select the speed of 0.75 (three-quarters speed).

Here is the solution: Click on the Settings button ⚙and select the speed of 0.75 (three-quarters speed).

You get annoyed easily! Turn the volume down and put on any music you like. Its authentic spoken clearly with no jargon and no Robo voice.

What a bell-enderous comment.

@@archerry6457 The purpose of making videos for the WORLD is to make it possible for the WORLD to watch. When you imprint a video with a local accent, you make it very hard for anyone to watch. You think U.S accent is annoying, believe me, we think brit accent is just as annoying. The point here is NOT to annoy people and just try and explain something from a neutral point of you.

@@DocFripouille it's the original audio FFS!!!

@@archerry6457 Lol really? Like... I didn't know it was the freaking original audio. Obviously anyone that watches this knows.

@@DocFripouille more bellendery given what you said in your previous response. You either know it's the original audio or you don't. If you knew it was the original audio why did you post your previous response. It doesn't make sense. You don't make sense. I think I'm in discussion with a bot. Just in case you are real, it's called Received Pronunciation, definitely not a local accent. Whilst you might find it "way annoying" I'm guessing your own accent might not be everyone's cuppa. As for "the entire thing is very much totally self-centered British", yeah, no shit, it's a British aircraft, made in Britain, by small-scale British manufacturing when Britain stood alone against the Nazis as the US twiddled its thumbs. Not until manufacture started in Canada did it become production line like we know today. So yeah, totally fucking British-centred, just like the documentaries about the B29 production are totally US-centred.