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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 0395.PDF
FEBRUARY 28TH, I946 FLIGHT 205 The Mark 34 Photographic-Reconnaissance Mosquito exercising without drop tanks. The Latest Mosquitoes Improved Performance with New Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines SINCE the first delivery of Mosquitoes to the R.A.F.in July, 1941, these aircraft have enjoyed unrivalledpopularity in almost every Command and theatre of operations. At any minute of the night or day during the later stages of hostilities in Europe it would have been reasonably safe to wager that at least one Mosquito would be air- borne. Quite recently a new version of Mosquito was introduced for Naval carrier-borne work, with four can- nons, and i8in. torpedo or alternative loads of bombs and R.P.s. The Mark 33, or Sea Mosquito, as it is called, has manually folding wings, and arrester hook, Mk 33 - Mk 34 - Mk 35 - Mk 36 - • - Sea Mosquito - - Photo Reconnaissance - - High Altitude Bomber - - Night Fighter also a modified nose to take Radar equipment. Basic- ally, it is a development of the Mark 6 fighter-bomber. Considerable modification to wing structure has natur- ally been entailed, as the Mosquito wing was never intended to fold. In a manner lather similar to that em- ployed on the Sea Hornet, alclad sheet has been let into the top and bottom wing surfaces both inboard and outboard of the folding point. The spanwise stringers in the skin have been cut down slightly and are sandwiched between the alloy sheets. The two ribs at the folding point are made up of thick alclad-spruce- alclad sandwich webs with laminated booms. The rlloy Without external assistance the Sea Mosquito prototype with Merlin 25 engines, flies off during its first deck trials. Prior tothis, the only twin-engine aircraft to take off from a carrier were the Mitchells on the first Tokio raid
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