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[dietz]

[Kopfdorfer]

Attention Jaffa!!! Great sounds - though a little thick with songbirds.

                       What an amazing video. A couple of interesting points. The aircraft seems to be  a FB version originally, as you can tell by the crew door on the starboard front fuselage - as far as I know the bomber versions had the crew door below, the door was offset on the FBs due to the guns being in the way. Also,  the control column handle for this Mossies is a yoke type control head - as I thought was used exclusively on the Bomber/PRU versions.
It was also interesting seeing the pilot caught offguard by the amount of counterclockwise torque on the first touchdown - Mossies were known to be rather unforgiving to inexperienced and/or unaware pilots. Also interesting to note that he (the test pilot in the video) was much more wary on the second landing, and touched down on the grass rather than the ashphalt.
Anyone have any other observations?


Kopfdorfer

[dietz]

I built the Airfix 1/24th model of this bird..and noticed the door placement as well...I wonder if it works - in the earlier part of the vid it looks as if the canopy opens up.Re. Landing I read somewhere if you had one engine out on landing you'd better make it down the first time , because chances are you wouldn't get another chance...

[Yardstick]

Interesting look alike but the since the pilots don't scale to 0.75, the cockpit and canopy are way too big for the smaller airframe.

[Jafa]

Blimey , what is that thing  ???

[caldrail]

Interesting look alike but the since the pilots don't scale to 0.75, the cockpit and canopy are way too big for the smaller airframe.

Some of the other proportions are not correct to scale either, and notice the lowered nose for improved view when taxiing. Scale flying replicas are never exact anyhow.

What really interested me though was the seeming inability of this aircraft to run both engines at the same RPM. I didn't spot any tendency toward groundlooping (perhaps the pilot was sharp - for all I know he was sweating it in there - though in fairness the rudder didn't look busy)

[=AFJ=Jamz]

i noticed that too.. those engines were never matching RPM to one another but there wasnt any evidence of over torque and excessive rudder input, strange