Great work! My Great Uncle now 96 years old was a Pathfinder navigator and flew with the "Wooden Wonder" in the war. I had the pleasure to visit the De Havilland museum with him last year and to listen with awe as he told stories of flying with these fantastic machines. Through your work you are keeping these memories alive. LEST WE FORGET what these brave people experienced!
I was asked to prepare such a plane some years back for it's first flight. The guy who owned it, had bought it sight unseen. First thing I noticed was the power situation. Both engines were two stroke petrol spark ignition running three bladed props of 20". I couldn't get the engines to run full power, no matter what I did. Tried smaller props with less pitch still no good. Was not prepared to allow it to fly under such conditions. Whilst tuning another of my own big planes that was fitted with Zenoha 23cc two stroke petrol engine, noticed a difference between the mixture needle on my engine, and the engines of the Mosquito. Removed both needles from the Mosquito's engines and found them to be different from the one in my engine, thus preventing them from allowing the mixture to be leaned out properly. Ordered two new needles, fitted them to the engines, and BINGO away they went. Max revs. max power. First flight was awesome, very realisitic even the sound with the three bladed props was very realistic. This plane was a heavy plane, (foam and brown paper construction) thus requiring constant power to keep airspeed up and lift adequate. On landing the guy brought engines too far back, air speed dropped off too quick and plane lost lift totally, pancaking straight down belly flopping into the ground. End first and only flight. It takes BALLS to attempt to fly a multi engined R/C plane, suggest folks learn and try smaller sizes first and conquer their fear of twin engines. I will give BIG hint though, the SECRET is DIAHEDRAL of the wing. Try to keep it within 1 1/2 deg positive, even 2 deg can be utilised. Engines Zero thrust, zero left/right. Good luck.
Thanks for the story, I originally planned to use electric motors as I did with my Ziroli P-38. (Check out that build and flight videos) I have since decided to go with DA50s, hopefully as reliable as I can get. Even though the Mossie didn't have counter rotating props, I'm going to get one engine reversed. I'll be uploading the next video in the series soon. Please check back.
I have a news article with my Aunt working at the De Havilland Toronto plant working on the build of one.......can't wait to see yours finished best of wishes !
Awesome model! I built the f6f hellcat model and the f4u model balsa kits. For the f4u model I had to come up with a way for the wings to keep the dihedral. So I tied a string from the wing joint where the wings would fold on the real thing, and attached the other end of the string to the wing tip to keep it up. Anyhow, I think it's awesome that you designed this and built it. This blew my mind away.
THIS is the way a model is built. Seen a video from a guy in the US that had a Corsair model. Five or six large bits of shiny dark blue plastic, (with servos already installed!) it just needed bolting together and a battery put in. Disgraceful. This is a beautiful piece of work, look forward to seeing more soon.
I had the privilege recently to visit the workshop in Drury New Zealand to see the two full size Mosquitoes that are under construction all done exactly as they were built in England during WW2.
Nice, that would be a awesome experience. New Zealand is on my place to visit list. Be sure to hit the bell so you can follow the rest of the build. My winter build season is fast approaching.
Mike JM If/ When you make it to NZ contact me and I will arrange a visit for you to the workshop ... just lookup the name Gatiss in Coromandel ... I’m the only one. Take care. SG.
Great choice of model. In my opinion, the Mosquito was the best of the piston era planes, closely followed by the Mustang simply because a Mustang won't get you home if one of the engines is shot up! Projects like these keep history alive. Just as well someone invented laser cutting machines so the parts don't have to be cut by hand.
Great video and awesome looking model. What materials are you using? Balsa? Plywood? Where do you get it from, thickness, feeds and speeds on your CNC? Thanks
@@dbaider9467 My dad was a draftsman in Supermarine's before and for a while during WWII, then he was moved into boat (MTB) work for Vospers. My earliest recollection of taking an interest in aircraft was in 1961, watching Vampires circuit-bashing at Baldonnell ! My next was a PBY towing some sort of survey drone, probably 1963. I learned about weight and balance by building models out of offcuts of aeroboard in my parent's boat building shed from probably '62 onwards. I do struggle with depression, and Chronic Fatigue, something that is only now being recognised, but no fix is known. Exercise is not the answer. Having grown up on a barge on the Shannon, I now live on an old Minesweeper.
Thanks a bunch, your comments are realy appreciated. Getting ready to upload the next build on my Mossie. Please like, share and sub. Oh yea, smash the bell so you know when it's uploaded.
Hi Mike. Excellent work all round! What a fantastic project. Very impressed with your work. I have started to CAD a Richard Rawle 1/5th scale Mosquito around other projects - span 126” - it is a huge undertaking so I take my hat off to you. I don’t suppose you are willing to share/sell a copy of your CAD? A bit cheeky I know, but would be very helpful. I understand if not. Great video of the maiden flight by the way
Sixty-plus years ago, I was tracing the wing-ribs and the fuselage formers onto balsa/ply and cutting them out by hand, using a surgical-type modelling-knife. You did it using a machine-cutter to follow the rib-curves and spar cutouts: was this cutter guided manually or was there some way of automating the process to get complete accuracy ?
Beautiful plane Mike! What size scale is this to? I wanted to know why your didn't use a monocoque shell from veneers glued together to make the fuselage. You already had made a elliptic paraboloid gridshell for the longeron framework. You were around 1-2 steps left to completing a monocoque mold.
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC I was planning on making a Hornet, but I've been looking for some plans to use. If not, I'll just have to take a 1/48 model and scale up on Autodesk Inventor. I'd use a 1/32'' birch veneer 3-ply for the monocoque. Do you own that CNC router from the video? Which type is it?
@@tumdeax It's homemade, I built it for my ziroli P-38. If you haven't seen that 3 part build you should check it out. Some people don't like the music.....fair warning.
Can I purchase your plans the Mossi is one of my favorite was building a kit I purchased in England w/elect starts , my house was broke into had 5 planes stolen and the mossi was among them, have wanted to do another one, would like to do one like yours , am 80 and have a lot time to devote to the project, very interested please respo d , THANKS. Ron
I used Autocad for drawing the plans. Then used CamBam for my conversion software and for CNC I used Mach 3.. I used the same software for my Ziroli P38 build. Glad you liked it. I'll be uploading a new progress video on the Mossie soon, so bomb that bell for notifications. Again thank you.
@@phubarnow5388 I downloaded the free plans from rcscalebuilder.com then I had them scanned at the UPS store as a pdf. I then opened them up in Paintshop Pro and did quite a bit of cleaning them up. I had to do this since the plans are penciled drawings. Then I used scan2cad software to convert to a dxf file. I used Autocad and pretty much redraw the plans. I also made a lot of modifications to the plans since they were lacking detailed information and templates. Final drawings were then organized into cut sheets for conversion for CNC cutting.
It's very good that so many of people that are using a 3D pictures that are uppercutting of a well different tools it is but however sometimes data of everyone need to know that it is like well this is like another thing but however in the past the first rc plane was used a paper measurement pincers Waters and cutting tools because it was maybe like Chinese right there but everyone to do their homework is always about to be responsibilities like to do a correct job and specially that I have to save this sometimes I think people knows how to do their homework but other people have to do something well the easy way or you can take the challenge of a responsibility it is the hard way but I do understand that what I'm saying to you that because I like the A new challenge but sometimes that are of a new challenges always about patients understand and to do the math homework that to be out of a plane RC plane that it could be something like well how to describe this it could be like for the future is always about that to be a responsibility
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC Depends on what you start with. Smooth curves, identical/symmetrical parts etc, are much easier with CAD/CAM, esp if you start with CAD files.
Great work! My Great Uncle now 96 years old was a Pathfinder navigator and flew with the "Wooden Wonder" in the war. I had the pleasure to visit the De Havilland museum with him last year and to listen with awe as he told stories of flying with these fantastic machines. Through your work you are keeping these memories alive. LEST WE FORGET what these brave people experienced!
Thank you, hopefully I'll have an update soon.
I was asked to prepare such a plane some years back for it's first flight. The guy who owned it, had bought it sight unseen. First thing I noticed was the power situation. Both engines were two stroke petrol spark ignition running three bladed props of 20". I couldn't get the engines to run full power, no matter what I did. Tried smaller props with less pitch still no good. Was not prepared to allow it to fly under such conditions. Whilst tuning another of my own big planes that was fitted with Zenoha 23cc two stroke petrol engine, noticed a difference between the mixture needle on my engine, and the engines of the Mosquito. Removed both needles from the Mosquito's engines and found them to be different from the one in my engine, thus preventing them from allowing the mixture to be leaned out properly. Ordered two new needles, fitted them to the engines, and BINGO away they went. Max revs. max power. First flight was awesome, very realisitic even the sound with the three bladed props was very realistic. This plane was a heavy plane, (foam and brown paper construction) thus requiring constant power to keep airspeed up and lift adequate. On landing the guy brought engines too far back, air speed dropped off too quick and plane lost lift totally, pancaking straight down belly flopping into the ground. End first and only flight. It takes BALLS to attempt to fly a multi engined R/C plane, suggest folks learn and try smaller sizes first and conquer their fear of twin engines. I will give BIG hint though, the SECRET is DIAHEDRAL of the wing. Try to keep it within 1 1/2 deg positive, even 2 deg can be utilised. Engines Zero thrust, zero left/right. Good luck.
Thanks for the story, I originally planned to use electric motors as I did with my Ziroli P-38. (Check out that build and flight videos) I have since decided to go with DA50s, hopefully as reliable as I can get. Even though the Mossie didn't have counter rotating props, I'm going to get one engine reversed.
I'll be uploading the next video in the series soon. Please check back.
I love watching how you put these planes together. The detail work is amazing. Musically I really preferred the Sousa marches.
I have a news article with my Aunt working at the De Havilland Toronto plant working on the build of one.......can't wait to see yours finished best of wishes !
Watching with interest! Beautiful work so far!
Mike,
I'm so impressed with you skill, you built a incredible replica Sir! Well done! I can't wait to see her spread her wings!!
Fair winds,
Awesome model! I built the f6f hellcat model and the f4u model balsa kits. For the f4u model I had to come up with a way for the wings to keep the dihedral. So I tied a string from the wing joint where the wings would fold on the real thing, and attached the other end of the string to the wing tip to keep it up. Anyhow, I think it's awesome that you designed this and built it. This blew my mind away.
Thanks a lot. Please like, share and sub. Much appreciated
Really nice clean looking build, thanks for the update.
THIS is the way a model is built. Seen a video from a guy in the US that had a Corsair model. Five or six large bits of shiny dark blue plastic, (with servos already installed!) it just needed bolting together and a battery put in. Disgraceful. This is a beautiful piece of work, look forward to seeing more soon.
Thank you here is the update:
ruclips.net/video/4YQomy_PD2E/видео.html
Excellent spectacular.
Saludos desde Buenos Aires Argentina.
👍😎
Awesome, i love your plane design. This is so cool
Looking great Mike! Can't wait to see it in the air!
I'll probably maiden it down there. Or let Jeff maiden it.
I'll be back to Northern Alliance Military Fly-in August 12-14 2021
Good stuff! Even using the original materials
I had the privilege recently to visit the workshop in Drury New Zealand to see the two full size Mosquitoes that are under construction all done exactly as they were built in England during WW2.
Nice, that would be a awesome experience. New Zealand is on my place to visit list. Be sure to hit the bell so you can follow the rest of the build. My winter build season is fast approaching.
Mike JM If/ When you make it to NZ contact me and I will arrange a visit for you to the workshop ... just lookup the name Gatiss in Coromandel ... I’m the only one. Take care. SG.
Great choice of model. In my opinion, the Mosquito was the best of the piston era planes, closely followed by the Mustang simply because a Mustang won't get you home if one of the engines is shot up! Projects like these keep history alive. Just as well someone invented laser cutting machines so the parts don't have to be cut by hand.
Thank you Mark, I'll be uploading my progress on my Mossie soon. Please hit that bell for updates.
Stunning great build
Thank you very much. I should be uploading a new progress video soon. Hit that bell for a notification.
Good work.
I love the music! Pretty good build there, too :-)
I'm glad you like it
Awesome job my friend.....love what i see!!
Thank you
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You have incredible skills and infinite patience.
Thank you
Check out my P38 build and flight videos. Sub, share, like and smash that bell. I'll be uploading a new video on the mossie soon.
and lots of money
Love the mosquito. ..I thought something was amiss when i spotted a 30 foot long spirit level in the thumbnail..!
That’s awesome
Great video and awesome looking model. What materials are you using? Balsa? Plywood? Where do you get it from, thickness, feeds and speeds on your CNC? Thanks
Balsa USA and National Balsa. 1/16" balsa to 1/8" balsa. About the same for plywoods.
I'm shocked and impressed - you use more tools than it took to build a original one. :/ Great quality throughout.
Are you Air Corps ?
@@dbaider9467 My dad was a draftsman in Supermarine's before and for a while during WWII, then he was moved into boat (MTB) work for Vospers.
My earliest recollection of taking an interest in aircraft was in 1961, watching Vampires circuit-bashing at Baldonnell ! My next was a PBY towing some sort of survey drone, probably 1963. I learned about weight and balance by building models out of offcuts of aeroboard in my parent's boat building shed from probably '62 onwards. I do struggle with depression, and Chronic Fatigue, something that is only now being recognised, but no fix is known. Exercise is not the answer. Having grown up on a barge on the Shannon, I now live on an old Minesweeper.
Wow, that is next level.
Thanks a bunch, your comments are realy appreciated. Getting ready to upload the next build on my Mossie. Please like, share and sub. Oh yea, smash the bell so you know when it's uploaded.
Nice! Skinned in wood like the real thing! 😎👍🏼
well Done Mike!
Thank you very much. I'll be starting back up on the Mossie soon since it's build season here in Minnesota. Subscribe and hit that bell if you want.
Hi Mike. Excellent work all round! What a fantastic project. Very impressed with your work. I have started to CAD a Richard Rawle 1/5th scale Mosquito around other projects - span 126” - it is a huge undertaking so I take my hat off to you.
I don’t suppose you are willing to share/sell a copy of your CAD? A bit cheeky I know, but would be very helpful. I understand if not.
Great video of the maiden flight by the way
wow......and thats why I am an ARF kind of guy.....great work and patience to complete....just cant do it....................
I wish I could find some good Mosquito plans. Any sources you can recommend?
Sixty-plus years ago, I was tracing the wing-ribs and the fuselage formers onto balsa/ply and cutting them out by hand, using a surgical-type modelling-knife. You did it using a machine-cutter to follow the rib-curves and spar cutouts: was this cutter guided manually or was there some way of automating the process to get complete accuracy ?
Sorry for the late reply, all computerized CNC
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC Thanks.
Where can I get a model of a plane this big please
What is the cad software are you using to lay out the designs?
Auto Cad
Very nice build, wonder if you are willing to sell the files?
What did you cover the fuselage with? Is that thin Balsa wood?
Yes
Would you share the cut files for this
Beautiful plane Mike!
What size scale is this to?
I wanted to know why your didn't use a monocoque shell from veneers glued together to make the fuselage. You already had made a elliptic paraboloid gridshell for the longeron framework. You were around 1-2 steps left to completing a monocoque mold.
1/5 I just went with something I knew, never thought about doing a monocoque shell.
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC I was planning on making a Hornet, but I've been looking for some plans to use. If not, I'll just have to take a 1/48 model and scale up on Autodesk Inventor. I'd use a 1/32'' birch veneer 3-ply for the monocoque.
Do you own that CNC router from the video? Which type is it?
@@tumdeax It's homemade, I built it for my ziroli P-38. If you haven't seen that 3 part build you should check it out. Some people don't like the music.....fair warning.
Lovely build. IC engines I hope?
Planning on DA50s
Hi there I am so intrigued by your projects! Do you create the drawings for the pieces yourself or do you use a kit from online?
What a beauty! Did you build the CNC router? I see, below, that you will have another Mosquito update soon :-) i'll hit 'notify' !
Yes, I built the router at the same time I was redrawing my plans with Autocad. Thank you
Can I purchase your plans the Mossi is one of my favorite was building a kit I purchased in England w/elect starts , my house was broke into had 5 planes stolen and the mossi was among them, have wanted to do another one, would like to do one like yours , am 80 and have a lot time to devote to the project, very interested please respo d , THANKS. Ron
Plans are a free download from rcscalebuilder.com
A Savox servo for the landing light hahaha
Hi, can i ask where you got the retracts from?
Century Jet who is no longer in buisness
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC Thanks for the info, i see the business is up for sale.
What did take off weight end up at?
It's not done, a friend talked me into making molds so we can build composite Mossies and he can have one also.
Where do you get the wood from?
Can't remember for sure, either National Balsa or Balsa USA
you should have fried all those military buffs and made it out of metal
Hi, create please Tupolev 154)
Really? DH-98 with stressed skin fuselage?
Welll not really stressed but it is balsa and plywood. Sub, share and if you like it.
Mike I have questions.
Ask away, I'm happy to answer your questions
Yep :)
awesome job. what software did you use to draw up those great plans ?
I used Autocad for drawing the plans. Then used CamBam for my conversion software and for CNC I used Mach 3.. I used the same software for my Ziroli P38 build. Glad you liked it. I'll be uploading a new progress video on the Mossie soon, so bomb that bell for notifications. Again thank you.
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC Did you scan in any original drawings or all CAD work? Thanks.
@@phubarnow5388 I downloaded the free plans from rcscalebuilder.com then I had them scanned at the UPS store as a pdf. I then opened them up in Paintshop Pro and did quite a bit of cleaning them up. I had to do this since the plans are penciled drawings. Then I used scan2cad software to convert to a dxf file. I used Autocad and pretty much redraw the plans. I also made a lot of modifications to the plans since they were lacking detailed information and templates. Final drawings were then organized into cut sheets for conversion for CNC cutting.
@@phubarnow5388 i scanned 3 sheets that had very minimal detail. I had to design alot of the components
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC Hello, Could you include a link to the plans?
If you need a "nephew " to hang out and build with let me know!
Haha, that would be cool, but my shop is such a mess I don't know if we could both fit.
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC I definitely inspire to have a set up like yours one day. Fyi I love your P-38 build! Amazing!
@@Harry_Ballzonya Thank you
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC I could sweep up first be fine ;-)
It's very good that so many of people that are using a 3D pictures that are uppercutting of a well different tools it is but however sometimes data of everyone need to know that it is like well this is like another thing but however in the past the first rc plane was used a paper measurement pincers Waters and cutting tools because it was maybe like Chinese right there but everyone to do their homework is always about to be responsibilities like to do a correct job and specially that I have to save this sometimes I think people knows how to do their homework but other people have to do something well the easy way or you can take the challenge of a responsibility it is the hard way but I do understand that what I'm saying to you that because I like the A new challenge but sometimes that are of a new challenges always about patients understand and to do the math homework that to be out of a plane RC plane that it could be something like well how to describe this it could be like for the future is always about that to be a responsibility
Now do one without the laser ! If I had another life, I would live to build a real 60 or 70% scale with modern engines.
Probably easier and faster to cut the parts by hand.
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC Depends on what you start with. Smooth curves, identical/symmetrical parts etc, are much easier with CAD/CAM, esp if you start with CAD files.
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Would be nice for a video instead of a slide show.
Toy canpany Thes cain kid meke I buy so cool
How can i contact you ?
If you have questions about the build you can ask them here.
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC any personal contact like email id ?
I am doing a project based on this topic..
Like to ask some questions .
strange. I think I would have built it the way they really were. if your using wood and Balsa anyway.... why not build it properly?
Subscribed..."How soddin big...???"
125" wingspan
What a waste of my time that was! Well done!
Sorry to hear that
Lol wtf
Ignore the fucker Mike.
Not a fan of CFC machines I’m afraid. More a model for computer programmer….. jussi saying.. ps music was nauseating…..
That's what the volume control is for.
@@MikeJM-Fly-RC fair enough, or you could use ac/dc…
@@paulgreen9979 I love AC/DC, not sure how much it would cost. I just use the free stuff.