Comments by "Chris Cain" (@buffplums) on "Wings of Valor: Restoring A De Havilland Mosquito For Future Generations | Gaining Altitude | Spark" video.

  1. We have one at the RAF Cosford museum
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  2. Thoroughly lived that video. I think you guys out in Canada have contributed more than other in restoring and flying so much aviation from the wartime. I also had the honour to climb aboard and take some photos of the FM212 Lancaster at Windsor after spotting it on my to fly out from Windsor airport to Toronto. I had just an hour before checkin and was just driving up to the car park and saw the Lanc on the other side of the airport with no outboard wings or engines but on seeing her, thought I HAVE to get to see that. Long story short, the museum was closed but one of the guys was showing a group of pretty young women around so thought there is NO way I’m going to get to see this baby with less than an hour to go to check. But the gent was really nice and for a 40 Buck donation to the museum he let me climb all over her and took my photo in the pilots seat, also have myself a shot siting in NX611 Just Jane Lancaster and getting a taxi ride too, which is in its way to flying again at East Kirkby. Imagine having VERA, the BBMF and Just Jane all flying go together. I do have a photo with VERA and PA474 flying overhead of East Kirkby with NX611 sitting on the ground below with her engines running. You guys are doing such a magnificent job.
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  3. I had the distinct pleasure of having my own private air show of the last flying Mosquito in Britain RR299 a year before it crashed at Barton near Chester U.K. I was in the RAF at the time and working on a radio transmitter station which was located on an old RAF coastal command station at the former RAF St Eval in Cornwall, U.K. I was walking down the old 08/26 main runway running some intercom cable up form one of the TX buildings to the entrance gate. I heard the sound of engines and thought to myself, hmm they sound old a bit like Merlins, looked up and saw RR299 fast coming towards me, must have been about 80 foot as he came down, buzzed me and shot off again. That was one thing but the fact that all around the old runways are about 18 60 foot radio antenna masts plus wire work as well. But what a thrill that was, I just wish I’d been able to record it but at least I can remember it. I feel very privileged to have had that experience. Oddly many years early, as an Air Cadet aged 14, I was at the Liverpool Speke Airport air show and I was asked to go inside the compound where the BBMF Lancaster was as well RR299. I took a photo shot looking up into the cockpit from the crew entry door so I do have some souvenir if the aircraft.
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  4. 24934637 ahh I didn’t know that, I think they had another one in display a few years ago and they swapped them. Wasnt the previous one on display a night fighter and this current one is a bomber? Wow 50 hours in the engine, maybe someone will do a deal and swap that if for a duff one if ever needed. Thanks for the update mate
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